Mr. TRUMBULL. I have voted steadily against all propositions to deprive the Senfrom NewJersey of his seat. I thought the request to postpone this matter until Thursday next was a reasonable one, and I voted for it. The majority of the Senate disagreed with me, and voted it down. I shall take no on in motions made simply for delay. I will enter into no struggle with the Senate. Having voted to postpone a matter until Thursday, and the majority of the Senate overruling me, although I disagree with the judgment to which the Senate has come, I shall make no factions opposition to that judgment. If the majority of the Senate are opposed to postponing the matter until Thursday, I shall not unite in any of these dilatory motions, and therefore. I shall now vote against postponing. unless there is some probability that somebody has changed his vote and we could postpone it. If there was any disposition on the part of Senators to postpone it, I Would unite with them; but. I look upon these motions now made as having no other etioct than that of delay, it being manifest that the majority of the Senate whichis herein opposed to Mr. SHERpMosAtpNo.ningl. have voted steadily on this question from, I believe, a conse ientious judgment upon the merits of this case against the right of Mr. Stockton to his seat. I have now not the slightest doubt upon it. I do not think that a joint convention of a Legislature can prescribe a plurality rule. The Constitution says explicitly that the Legislature shall rescribe the time, place, and manner of electing a Senator. In prescribing the “manner, ” in my judgment the Legislature must concur, and the Legislature means the 2 branches acting separately in a legislative capacity. They may prescribe the manner. The may authorizeit to be done by a oint vote. ere is the sole point upon which rest. my judgment: that while the Legislature may prescribe a plurality rule in the election of a Senator. a joint convention of the Legislature in the exercise of the law cannot do it. But at the same time this is a high judicial question, and I therefore have been willing to grant every request the Senfrom NewJer sey could make. every request that a reasonablejudge notingunder the solemnities of an oath would give to a man on trial before him and now, if there was any reasonable probability that a change in the vote of the Senate would occur by the presence here of members who are detained by sickness or any other cause, I should vote to postpone until tomorrow or Thursday. I voted yesterday to postpone until Thursday upon the declaration made by the Senfrom NewJersey that his colleague might be here and now, if any Senator can state upon his honor as n gentleman. that there is areasonable pros ect that he believes that the Senfrom ewJersey [Mr. Wmenr] can be here, and that a different result from the full vote of the Senate would occur, I would have no objection whatever to change my vote in thatparticular, and vote for a postponement; but there has been no such dec oration. The Senfrom NewJersey, whose case we have acted upon, did not state that he believed his colleague could be here. The Senfrom Nevada, [Mr. Srnwanr] who is the only other person absent, was here this morning in his seat. He is not here now. We therefore cannot postponc thisquestion until tomorrow to secure his vote. e is certainly able to be here to vote. because he has been in the Hull today. Why should we postpone this matter for the presence of the Senfrom NewJer sey when we have no assurance that he can be here tomorrow? There must be an end of all controversy and although this is a close vote. I believe it. has been an honest one. The Senfrom Kentucky. I regretted to see, yesterday charged Senators who voted against the right of Mr. Stockton to his seat with doing so from party considerations. I can speak honestly for myself, that in this matterihave not been influenced in the slightest degree by party feeling. But as there is. now no object in postponing this matter, as important public business is {ing on your table a d ought to be acted upon, think we on ht to c nsider this matter as at an end: an therefore the motion to reconsider ought to be voted upon now, unless we have some positive and reason able assurance that other Senators who have a right to vote will be here to vote tomorrow. I shall, therefore, vote against postponing the platter and shall votefor disposing of It now