Mr. HENDERSON. I desireto correct the Senator. The Senator labored under an error when he said that that amendment would not a ply to the election of members of Congress. he subject matter that we are talking about now is the qualification of voters. I say that the qualification of voters shall be of a certain character for the election of members of either branch of the State Legislature. The Constitution, as it now stands upon that subject, provides in the 2nd section of the 1st article t “atThe HoRepshall be composed of members chosenevery2ndyear by the people of the several States: and the electorsin eachState shall have the qualificationsrequisite for electorsof the most numerousbranchof theState‘Legisliiture." Therefore, when you fix the qualification of voters for the most numerous ranch or the lower branch of the State Legislature, you fix the qualification of voters for members of congress. You do not propose to alter the constitution on that subject. The Senator is mistaken in another proosition that it will not apply to an election eld under the Constitution and laws of the U.S. The only election that can be held under the Constitution and laws of the U.S. is for members of Congress. There is but one other case, and that is the election of Electors who elect the President' but those Electors, as now provided by the Constitution, are to be elected by the State in any manner it chooses. A State may provide that the State Senate may elect the lectors, or it may provide that the 2 branches of the Legislature may elect them. In SCarolina they are never elected by Um people; and unless you alter the Constitution on the subject the State Legislatures will yet have the power to regulate that matter l entirely as they please, and this amendment will not change it at all. There is, therefore, but one election that can be held under the Constitution and the laws of the U.S., and that is the election of members of the lower branch of Congress, because Senators are elected by the Legislatures. You cannot conceive of another election held under the Constitution and laws of the U.S. Hence I can see no necessity for saying, in this amendment. “ whenever the right to vote in any election held under the Constitution and laws of the U.S.” Those words are super fluous, because you are fixing only the qualifications of electors in one case under the constitution and laws of the U.S.; that is, of members to the lower branch of Conpress; Under the Constitution as it now stands, those electors must have exactly the same qualifications as electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature. Therefore, we may as well say, “whenever “the elective franchise shall be denied to the persons who elect the most numerous branch of the State Legislature, ” and then, of course, you have included those words "' elected under the constitution and laws of the U.S.” The Senate will see what I am aiming at. I do not want. to get the people Of lny State in volved in any difficulty, nor the people of another State, and have the probability ofexcluding from the basis of representation, or even to have the charge made that that is the object or intent of this thing, to exclude from the basis ofrepresentation those persons who may fail to he electors at some school election.