Mr. HOWARD. Of course, I am entirely ignorant of the report which may have been made of my speech and also of the sense in which it may have been understood. I know very well what my ideas were and what the substance of my language was. I never made any such statement, and I shall never agree, let me say, to any such thing. I will not agree that the State of SCarolina on adoptin that amendment shalleo instanti be. i into Congress; nor will I agree that Alabama or Mississippi or Georgia or Texas shall be admitted to seats in Congress on going through with what might in their case be the mere farce of ratifying that amendment of the Constitution. We have not been so blind as to offer such a proposition to the rebel States. We have not agreed that they may come back here and resume their seats when they ratify that amendment, leaving the question undecided and uncertain as to the final ratification of that amendment by the other States. What the ComReconstruction did propose at the last session was this, and very likely it has had the effect to mislead some gentlemen on that subject. While the matter referred to them was before them, that committee reported an article of amendment to the Constitution, the 3rd section of which read as follows: "Until the 4th day of July in the year 1870, all persons who voluntarily adhered to giving the late insurrection it aid and comfort, shall be excluded from the right to voto for Representatives in Congressand for electors for President and VEEP.” The committee submitted to the Senate and to the HoRep a bill entitled “A bill to provide for restoring the States lately in insurrection to their full political rights, ” the 1st section of which enacts as follows: “That whenever the above recited amendment the whole amendmentbeing recited in the bill] shall have become a part of the Qonstitution of States, the U.S and any o lately in insurrection shall have ratified the same and shall have modified its consti “tution and laws in conformity therewith, the Sens&Reps from such State, if found duly elected and qualified may, after having taken the food oath of office, be admitted into Congressas such. That is the proposition which the committee made to the 2 Houses of Congress. The bill, I believe, never passed the Senate. I think it was taken up in the HoRep and laid on the table. But observe how care fully even that bill is drawn. It is predicated upon this, that the amendment of the Constitution thus proposed shall have been prelimi narily ratified by a sufficient number of States of the Union to make it a part of the Constitution itself, and that it shall be especially ratified by each one of the insurgent States for itself before such rebel State shall be readmitted. That is what was proposed, and the only thing proposed, to the rebel States as such.R.WADE. As the Senator seems to address himself to me, I want to know if he understood me to lay down any diffrent rule from that.