Mr. GRLMES. Mr. President, as I understand this proposition, if compelled to vote to day, I shall feel disposed to vote in favor of the passage of the bill. When it shall be i. reported from the ComJudiciary, with the sanction of that committee, I have no question that I shall vote for it; but I am not to be deterred by the threat of the call for the yeas&nays which the Senfrom Michigan has given notice of from insisting upon a strict enforcement of the rules of the Senate, unless there shall be some more substantial reason given for overthrowing those rules than has et been assigned. I should like to know wh it is that it is necessary that we should in j. hot haste pass this. Does the Senator or any gentleman suppose that it is going to have any more influence with the country at large because we, in a fit of temper, as they will judge, choose to pass this bill the 1st hour of the session, than if we shall detain it in the hands of the ComJudiciary one day or 2 days, and have the authority and sanction and the weight of character which will be given to it by the action and recommendation of that committee? I apprehend not, sir. As was said here yesterday by a Senator near me, [Mr. FEssex DEN,) we have upon several occasions, during the 8, or 9 years that I have been here, passed bills in hot haste without a reference to a committee, as it is o to pass this bill, and in almost every such instance we have found that we have perpetrated some wrong, some mistake, and were afterward. ito take the back track. I do not know with what haste we passed the bill one section of which it is now proposed to repeal: I only know that we did pass it and that I voted for it. I am satisfied now that we ought not to have incorporated it into that bill; but I want to have the authority of the committee of this body whose business it is to investigate such subjects to ratify and confirm my present impression in regard to it. If it is feared that the President will issue a general proclamation of amnesty, let me ask, does this action deny him the power to do it? After we pass this bill by a unanimous vote, if the Senate should pass it by such a vote, he will have the power to retain it under the Constitution for ten days in his hands, and during those ten days I apprehend it would not be denied that he could issue his proclamation if he chose to do it. Mr. President, I fear that the country will regard that this is rather an incitement to the President to do something of the kind, that it will be invoking the exercise of some such power on his part, rather than any very great display of wisdom and prudence and states manship on our part.