Mr. HOWE. Ilike several of the suggestions of the Senfrom Missouri. I like that one especially in which he re udiates the idea of having a preamble at a], and I propose to mine an amendment to the amendment to strike out the preamble. I prefer the resolution reported by the ComJudiciary to the resolution which came to us from the House. I have not compared the 2 pream bles closely enough to know which I do prefer, bgt I know to a dead certainty that I would prefer no preamble at all to any preamble that we stand a ghost of a chance of getting drafted and prefixed to the resolution. Your ream ble, sir, is a statement of the reasons why you agree to the resolution. We have debated the questions connected with this matter of reconstruction, as it is called, not quite ever since I have been born, but it commenced when Iwas very young, and I think it ouvht to be known by this time that we are not likely to agree in our reasons for adopting this or any particular resolution upon that subject. The practical question is, whether you will recognize the government that exists in Tennessee and reclothe it with the prerogatives of a State or not. That is the practical question; 'pll the rest is theoretical. Now, when we vote for the practical thing; when we vote for the resolution which says that representatives shall be received from Tennessee, is it necessary to stop and baggie and debate until we all agree as to the reasons why we vote f r that resolution 'I I would be willin to do i if it were not very hot and I thought ere was any reasonable probability of your all coming to my reasons, but, from my past experience, I do not think you are very likely to come to an agreement with my reasons until the hot weather has passed and the cold weather has come and passed a in. The on y reason I have for votin for either of these resolutions, the only in ucement I have, springs from the consideration that that local government in Tennessee is in the hands 10f loyal men, that is, men who are of allegiance ito the Constitution of the U.S and are disposed to obey the national authorities; not only that that government is in the hands of sue men now, but that there is a probability that it will continue in such hands. That is all I want of any government. These are the inducements I have to vote to admit representatives from Tennessee. I could agree to most Of these propositions in the preamble sent to us from the HoRep, and in most of those or all of those in the preamble reported to us by the ComJudiciary. This is what I say: that if they are all true, they not only do not constitute the reason, but they constitute no part of the reason why I vote for the resolution; and I do not want to aflirm that they do constitute any part of the reason. It does not seem tome that practical and sensible legislators will stop liere now to dispute about the reasons upon which they will pass one or the other of these resolutions. I said that I preferred the resolution reported here from the ComJudiciary to the res olution which comes to us from the house. The resolution which comes to us from the House says, “That the State of Tennessee is hereby restored to her former proper, practical relations to the Union, ” the It bearsa sort of implication that the State of Tennessee had been floating about in a disorganized, and not only that, but in a wild state, away of? some where iu another sphere. The State of Tennessee has been just where she always was since there was a State of Tennessee. The resolution of the ComJudiciary ro ' poses to recognize the local government whiich is organized in Tennessee. That is precisely what we want to do, as it strikes me. the State of Tennessee is just Where she has always been. The trouble with Tennessee has been that she has had no government that you could trust. The government which existed there in WM, and long after 186], you know was so false, so treacherous, and so traitorous that nobody that pretended to any loyalty would trust that. Your armies scattered that. Then there was another government set up. It was more loyal than that, but 100times more feeble. That government which was so false and treacher ous was strong. so far as the location was concerned, because it was sustained by the body of the people. The governmentwhich was set up subsequent to that was true and entitled to respect, but was feeble because the people of Tennessee did not sustain it. But now I believe that government has got into a position, is so fortified that it can sustain itself. Now recognize it. It has not been recognized before. Nobody could recognize it but comgress. We have aliirmed that over and over again. That is the one thing necessary. We not only have nllirmed it, but our Presidents, I believe both of them, have allirmed that it was necessary for us to recognize these governments; our courts have asserted that only here rested thenuthority which could recognize this overument. That is the one thing, then, to o; and so I prefer the resolution reported by the ComJudiciary. But I am so utterly and irreconcilably opposed to either of these preambles, and I am so irreconcilably o posed to the idea of having a preamble at all that I do hope, 1st, that the preamble reported by the ComJudiciary will be stricken out, and then that the resolution reported by them will be adopted as a substitute to that sent to us from the House, and I move that amendment.