Mr. SHELLABARGER. Mr. Speaker, I certainly would notinterru t my colleague but for the remark that he made prefatory to that one in which he introduced an allusion to myself. That prefatory remark compels me either to arise for the purpose of explanation or else to acquiesce in what is a mistaken interpretation of what I said. Now, had he completed the sentence, apart of which he read, he would have found that in attributing to me the position which I under stood him to attribute to me, he does me unin tended injustice. I will complete the sentence, only addin that which is material for the explanation that I desire now to make. I must read the whole sentence so as to introduce and give the effect of the part omitted. It reads: “It is under our Constitution possibloto and the IBIOIEbOHlOI}did in fact so, overt row and usurp in theinsurrectionury States the loyal Stategovernments asthat. during such usurpation such States and their people ceased to haveany of e rightsor powersof government as Statesof this mon"Notice thatI say “ during such usurpation”“and this loss of the rights and powers of government was such that the U.S.may and ought to assumeand exerciselocal powersof the lost State governments and inay control the readmission of such States to their powersof governmentin this Uiiion". Now, here is the part of the sentence to which I desne to call attention"subject to and in accordance with the obligation to guarantyto eachStatea RFG.” Now, sir, my proposition is that it was the governing capacity or property alone that was overthrown, and that that state of things has intervened and occurred to make it the duty of the Government of the U.S., not to hold these people as conquered Territories, but to restore to them republican governments, and that we cannot hol them, therefore, as conquered Territories, but that that holding is subject to that guarantee to which I alluded in the last part of the sentence. I know my distinguished colleague will do me the justice to give me the benefit of the last and important part of the sentence.