Mr. JOHNSON. Yes; the whole of WestVirginia; and the Senate will remember that under the act of 1861, the President was authorized to declare, not a State in insurrection merely, but a State if the whole was in insurrection, or such part of a State as might be in insurrection, excluding such parts as he supposed were not in that condition from the scope of his proclamation; the result of which neces. sarily was that with reference to such parts their citizens stood as they would have stood if there had been no proclamation declaring theState to be in insurrection. That being the case, the only question is whether the provision which I propose to incorporate in this bill does not stand precisely upon the same ground. The honorable member tells us that it may let in a vast variety of claims, which it would be very difficult for the U.S. to disprove by disproving the facts upon which they are to rest, the facts being that those portions of the State in the military occupation of the U.S. were so in the military occupation, and that the parties themselves were loyal. That applies just as well to the portions of the States excepted from the proclamation; that is to say, you are to ascertain what portions of a State are excepted; and then you are to as certain what in point of fact was the condition of the claimant; was he or was he not loyal; for it is not to be disguised that in the parts of States which were excepted, in WestVirginia, for example, as we heard from my friend, one of the Senators from WestVirginia, [Mr. will LEY,) the other day, there were a great many of their citizens who were not loyal, but very disloyal, as I understood him to say, and as I believe the history of the contest proved. They aided the rebellion as much as they could. Now, the amendment which I propose does not say that claims of this description which arise in any portion of a State which at any time may have been in the military occupation of the U.S. are to be entitled to be covered by the provisions of the bill, but that any part of a itary State which came under the miloccupation of the U.S and so remained up to the close of the war should not be included in the provisions of the orig inal bill. I have said enough to explain the ground upon which I suppose the amendment ought to receive the sanction of the Senate, and am very willing, of course, that the Senate should dispose of it as they may think proper.