Mr. SAULSB BY. I do not want to discuss the merits o is resolution. Many of its objectionable! tures have been got rid of it exists new, it is very objectionable to my lo adoption of amendments; but still, as mind, it is or the appomtinent of a committee of the 2 Houses to determine and to report upon, what I The right of representation of 11 States in this body. What determines the rights of those States to representation here? Is it the views of the members of the HoRep? Do we stand in need of any light, however bright it may be, that may come from that distinguished quarter? rewe going to ask them to illuminate us by wisdom, and to report the fact to us whether those States are entitled to rereseutation on this floor? Q! Mr. President, on the 1st day of your assem blage after the battle of Manassas you and they declared, by JtResolution, that the object for which towar was waged was for no purpose of conquest or subjugation, but it was to preserve the Union of the States and to maintain the rights, dignity, and e nality of the several States unimpaired. whfile that war was being waged there was no action, either of this House or of the HoRep, declaring that when it was over the existence of those States should be ignored or their right torepresentationin congressdenied. Through out the whole contest tie battlecry was “the preservation of the Union” and “the Union of the States.” If there was a voice then raised that those States had ceased to have an existence in this body, it was so feeble as to be passed by and totally disregarded. Sir, suppose this committee should report that those States are not entitled to reire sentation in this body, are on bound by t cir action? Is there not a higher law, the supreme law of the land, which says, if they be States that they shall each be entitled to 2 Senators on this floor? and shall a report ofa, JtCommee of the 2 Houses override and overrule the fundamental law of the land? Sir, it is dangerous as a precedent, and l protest against it as an humble member of this body. If they be not States, then the object avowed for which the war was waged was false. But, sir, I do not intend to discuss the question now. I shall take occasion before the session is over perhaps to discuss it somewhat elaborately. But regarding it as a dangerous precedent, I call for the yeas&nays on the passage of the resolution. The yeas&nays were ordered.