Mr. SHERMAN. But it was passed under the previous question and without debate, under the excitement produced by the veto message, and at the very time we were here discussing that message, and about the timewe were taking the vote upon it; and it is sent to us, and we are asked to considerit at once, and for that purpose to put aside all the business ot this body, a l the pending questions, including among O hers a constitutional ainendment which the Senator told us it was necessary should be acted upon promptly, in order that it might be sent to the State Legislatures now in session. It seems to me that it would be showing excitement and hasty irritation on the part of the Senate to postpone all its legislation and take up this political declaration and act upon it.1 e very fact that we do so under this unusual pressure, setting aside everything else and engaing in a political question, a question of poitical power, shows that the Senate is under a state of excitement. It is unusual—not unprecedented probably, because political excitements have existed heretofore; but it is unusual for the Senate to act in this manner. I say then, sir, that I can see no good, but much harm that may result from precipitating us immediately into the debate upon this resolution. I would prefer, therefore, that the question should go over for 2 or 3 days. I do not know that that delay will change the vote of anyone here. I presume that it will not, for upon this question most of us have, no doubt, formed or expressed our opinious, because this is not the 1st time it has ecu presented; but the very fact that we are now urged to repeat this declaration of our power to act on the question of reconstruction under the circumstances by which we are surrounded, shows that those circumstances of excitement have induced this resolution; and we are called upon to act on it, debate it, and vote upon it under a state of excitement which, if the Senator does not feel, this whole country now feels. The Senator will have the power at any moment to call up the resolution, and I hope it will be allowed to lie on the table for the present.