Abraham Lincoln wanted to reunite the country with as little hassle as possible towards to end of the Civil War and proposed that 10% of the white males in Confederate states take loyalty oaths for their states to be readmitted and also for those states to permanently free enslaved people.
Senator Benjamin F. Wade and Representative Henry Winter Davis thought these requirements too mild and proposed that 50% of males take the loyalty oaths and grant blacks the right to vote. Congress preferred this and passed this bill but President Lincoln vetoed it by refusing to sign.
