Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. President, I am very glad to agree with my colleague in the opinion that it is unnecessary that we should have any preamble at all to this resolution. There are reasons sufficient to vote for the resolution. The members of the Senate may not agree altogether in those reasons, if we attempt to state them in a preamble. I remem her very well a remark once made by the honorable Senfrom Ohio [Mr. W ADE] not long after I became a member of this body. He had had already considerable experience here as well as elsewhere. It was a remark which struck me with great force then and which I have always remembered, and upon which I have sought sometimes to profit. It was this, that sometimes persons in entering the Senate, who were new ere, were too anx ious to explain every vote they happened to give; and said he to me, “ Let them give their vote; they can explain it afterward." Now, sir, there are some who are ready to recognize the government. of Tennessee because they believe it is republican in form. There are other Senators here who state, and who conscien tiously believe, that its government is not republican in form, and therefore they cannot vote for the reamble. There are other senators who be ieve that Tennessee ought to be admitted because it has adopted a certain constitutional amendment. There are other senators who would not.make the adoption of a constitutional amendment a condition prece dent to any State being entitled to representation in Congress. There are other Senators who, like the honorable Senfrom Indiana, [Mr. Lang] believe that the State of Tennessee by its people, during the rebellion, organized itself into a loyal State government; that that State government was born of the people by their own act and not born of Congress at all; that it is not in the power of congress to give birth to a State government; congress can recognize a State government, it does not create it. Mr. President, I shall not detain the Senate, for I am anxious to get on with business, but there are different reasons operating upon different minds in the Senate, and yet al in one thing. What concurl is that? That Tennessee! is a State and has an organized State government, and is entitled to representation. Tha is all we want to say. I want to say it. I will say it to dny; I would say it tomorrow; Iwill say it at.any time. I would have said it any time for the last 6 months. but there were others who could not conscientiously do it. I do not stand here to find fault with them, butI say, inasmuch as Senators differ in the reasons which bring their judgments to the common result in which we all agree, to wit, that Tennessee is now to be recognized and is now entitled to representation; for which ever of these reasons, let us declare the result and let each Senator have his own reasons‘it is because she has adopted the amendment to the Constitution, or because she was organized, as my friendfrom Indiana believes, by her loyal people and has been properly in operation for years in spite of the rebellion. W hatever may be the reason, we all agree in the one ‘thing: that we recognize that she is a State iorganized in the Union, entitled to her rights as a State in the Union. Let us say precisel what we intend to say: that she is so entitle, and then there is no di‘liculty, no controversy among ourselves; no controversy between congress and the President, or anybody else. When we all agree in the thing, but may not a so as to the reasons for doing it, why not do it, and not quarrel about the reasons? I hope, sir, that this preamble business may be lai aside. I agree With my colleague that.we should leave out the preamble.