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President Lincoln used his pocket veto power to stop the bill from becoming law, as he already had a proposal plan named "Ten Percent Plan" for the reconstruction process. Lincolns believed that the Wade Davis Bill was to drastic and excessive, and would end up causing more obstacles in the path of repairing the relations with the South and within the Union as well.
In 1864, radical republicans Benjamin F. Wade Henry W. Davis tried to pass on a bill known as the "Wade Davis bill" to set the terms for reconstruction once the Civil War ended. They advocated, through the bill, that when the majority of white citizens of a seceded state, would advocate allegiance to the Union, a state's constitution should be formed. In this constitutions, slavery should be abolished, and every confederate official should be hold off from voting or holding office.