As further amendments were proposed, it became clear to Sam Ervin and others of divergent positions that they were setting a dangerous precedent in allowing amendments to a proposed constitutional amendment on the Senate floor. When Bayh began to consider accepting from John Pastore an amendment to strengthen the wording mandating immediate consideration of disability by Congress, his colleagues, including Joseph Tydings urgently pulled him back from an action that would have resulted in sending the resolution back to committee, perhaps never to emerge again. He stood his ground, the amendments were defeated, and S. J. Res. 1 passed the Senate by a vote of 72-0.