He disapproved of papal infallibility because this would mean more power to Pius IX. This can add up to the papal's international political influence and leadership. Papal political interventions have already been done in some events. It<span> would give an exemption to the papal's mistakes that according to Catholics were sacred reasons. Furthermore, they consider the papal teachings are infallible. </span>
The House approved the Wade-Davis Reconstruction Bill 73-49. It set the congressional agenda on how to deal with the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.
