Mr. CLARK. Mr. President, the Senfrom Massachusetts is kind enough to say that he is not surprised at the course that I take. Let me tell that Senator that I am surprised at the course he takes. I was surprised to hear him say in the Senate yesterday, that he would not give a vote even if it were right. Now, sir, I never shall do that. Whatever may be the consequences, if I come to the conclusion that a thing is right to be done, I shall give my vote to do it; and so will the Senfrom Massachusetts when he reflects. No man will do right more readily than be. It is only in his warmth and earnestness and zeal to save the country that he would be unjust to the citizens of the country by not discriminating between what olught to be done and what ought not to be one. I am not afraid, Mr. President, to look these claims against the Government in the face. I have no idea that any large mass of them isto be paid. I have no idea that one inten deserves to be paid among all the disloyal country; but if in those ten there is one to be paid, I Will look after that one and rejoice that the one which Was lost is saved and has not gone with the other nine. I do not believe, I will not believe, that the men who fought and marched from the loyal States to save your country will be unjust to the men who fought and marched from the disloyal States. I do not believe that the men in Massachusetts would sanction the principlethat the men in WestVirginia true to your ag should be turned away by the cold shoulder of the Government. Sir, the men living in NewEngland not only have brave hearts but they have warm hearts, and they will extend the hand of fellowship to the true soldier, be he wherever he may e, or be he white or be be black. The question is not where he lives. as I said before; the question is what he has done and what is the heart that he bears within his bosom. The question is not whether he has ot a receipt in his pocket; the question is whether the Government is under obligation to him and ought to discharge it. The Senator refers to the act that we passed at the last session that was defeated by a mistake of the clerk. Can the Senator tell the principle on which that act went? Can he tell whether that principle would embrace 100 or 500 or only ten cases? I can tell him that the man who made that claim was as loyal as any man in all the country, and that you took his property as much as you ever took the property of any person in the necessities of war. Mr. President, this Senate is too just, it has committed to it too vast interests ever to turn its back upon its citizens; it will draw no line along by the potomac and thence between Kentucky and Tennessee away to the West; but this is the whole country, and the loyal citizens of the whole country are the citizens of your Government demandin your protection, and they must and ought to have it. They will have it, and by and by the broad mantle of your justice and our love will cover all this country, and we shall be in the end, I be e, not rebels and loyalists, but all true to the ag, and ever here after maintainingit. The resolution was agreed to. APPORTIONMENT OP REPRESENTATION. The Senate, as in ComWhole, resumed the consideration of the JtResolution (H. It. NO. 61) proposing to amend the constitution of the U.S.