Mr. HOWE. I do not dispute but that my colleague might have said as much as this in the convention which he attended. I do not dispute but that he might have said as much as this at some other meetings that he attended in that State. All 1 am saying or insisting upon is, that it is not as much who can say in defense of a cause that he has at heart and wants to carry. He can do better than that, and therefore I infer that the extension of the suffrage to the negro did not have his best efforts last fall. I think, Mr. President, that if he and if that convention had lent to that measure of right and of justice the full benefit, the full weight of their names and their indorsement, the vote of that State would have been given in favor of the law. Sir, ifyou look at the return of that voteyou will find that while in most precincts the vote for the extension of suffrage fell below that given for the State ticket somewhat, in a great many of the precincts they ran right along paral lel to each other, indicating that the same individunls who voted for the state ticket voted for the extension of suffrage, showing to a great extent that it was a party question, so treated in those precincts. lhe men who made up the Union party in those recincts were just like the men who composed the Union party in all the other recincts; but it happened that in the towns there were here and there politicians who thought there was something to be made, some evidences of wisdom to be exhibited, by avoiding the question of suffrage, and, their influence was riven against it; and you could almost count the individuals who reduced the vote for negro suffrage below the vote given for the State ticket. If the convention had indorsed that measure, as they indorsed the Suite ticket, we should not have seen these evidences, I think; and I think so the more, because of a very peculiar fact not at. that time known to my colleague, and I am sorry to say not known to myself. That cculiar fact was that the law of our State at t iat very time did secure to ever adult colored man the right to vote. The a vice that my colleague gave to that convention, and upon which they acted, was simply this: it is not safe for you to put into your platform a measure which stands as the law of the State to day . In 1849, if. I am not mistaken inthe year, the people of that State, ammnjorityof them votin upon the question, voted to extend the right of suffrage to this very class. It was decide by the canvassers at the time that that was not sufficient to clothe them with the right and they never claimed or exercised it nnti the late election. Then they did claim it, and it was denied to them; asuit was commenced, and since that time the supreme court of the State have de cided unanimously that the vote given 16 years ago did confer upon them the right of suffrage; and my colleague will not insinuate, nor will any man that knows the individuals composin that court, that it was dictated or influence in any degree by political or partisan feeling. No one Will assert that. Nay, more, I have not yet seen the 1st paperuttering the opinions of the Democratic party in that State which assails the soundness or the justice of that decision of the supreme court“ Mr. President, the 3 measuresupon which my colleague has differed most broadl from his former political associates in this be y, and which have occasioned the most regret, not to say griefiamong our friends in the State of Wisconsin, I believe may be said to be 1st his action upon that proposition recently pendin which proposed to eclnre that these rebe States should not send representatives back here except with the assent of Congress embodied in an act; 2ndly, the vote he gave me to state, without interrupting him, that in upon the question submitted to the Senate, shall the hi 1 extending and enlarging the pewers of the Freedmens Bureau be passed not withstanding the objections of the President? and 3rdly, the vote he recently gave upon the proposition to pass the civil rights bill, socalled, under the same circumstances and over the veto of the President. New, I must be allowed to say, and to say very frankly, that not only is no one of these votes sanctioned by the action of the late State convention in Wisconsin, bntevery one of them is condemned by the express action of my 001. league himself. He himself has declared indie vidually against every one of these votes. T he record has been presented here over and over again, showing that 2 years ago he voted for a proposition declaring in very words that no one of these States should send back representatives here until the assent of Congress was declared.