Mr. CONNESS. should like to inquire of the honorable Senator, the chairman of the ComForRel, whether the mere expression of an o inion, which must be taken in advance to be the opinion of the people of the U.S. an the Government of the U.S., is in any respect such a remedy as should be applied to so grave an offene as pardoning criminals upon the condition that they shall come to this country and further if it would not be better to instruct by this resolution the executive Government to give the notice contemplated, and then provide that if such an act was repeated bythat Government, it would become the duty of this Government, and the President would be instructed to do it, to cease communication with that Government, to withdraw our representative, and to refuse to allow theirs to remain longer in this country. While upon this subject desire to call attention to a very offensive course, involving this same principle, or nearly the same, which is ur sned y States of the Uniorn ngainst each other. It is a somewhat common practice for tmovernors of States to pardon their offenders and criminals and release them from the State peni tentiaries upon condition that they leave the State. Then they are at liberty to into any foreign country or go into any other t fate of the Union. I believe it is acommon practice, and I suggest whether it should not also call for legislation, although it does not relate to foreign affairs. I believe it is a common practice and one certainly that deserves to be suppressed, for it is a very poor donation to make to any State to send criminals of another to it. But it a pears to me that this resolution does not meet tecase at all. It simplyundertakes to declare by form of law what the whole world must know to be the o inion of Congress without declaring it; but ifthe resolution provided that after the notification we should cease in tercourse with any nation that should under take to peretrate such an offense against this, then it wou d provide for the application of a remedy.