Mr. HOWE. If a majority of the States should neglect to avail themselves of the right to choose Sens&Reps the consequence would happen that a majority of the States would not be represented here, but that the wheels of the government would be stopped thereby I do not concede or a moment. I deny it utterly. If it be a right, as I assume, and not a duty, no penalty falls upon the nation because a State neglects to avail itself of that right. The nation would survive this neg lect on the part of a majorit, or 4/5th s, or 9 10thsof the States. have once said, and I still repeat, that as long as any 2 States or anyone State avails itself of this right, and sends its Representatives here, then you have a national Legislature; a Legislature which can enact laws for the whole Union. I ain sorry to hear, especially from the Senfrom Maryland, these very extreme rem ies urged upon us for the mere neglect of a fitate right. I am for upholding the rights of the States; I am fonupholding the right of a State to elect Representatives; but Inn! for upholding the right of a State to omit to elect Representatives, and I am for upholding that view of the Constitution under which the authority of the nation is not ini aired simply because a State neglects its rig its. When a State disregards a positive injunction, violates a dut imposed upon it by the Constitution then agree with the Senfrom Maryland that very extreme penalties maybe resorted to. But I recollect that when I advanced the doctrine that when States had not only refused ii to choose Sens&Reps to congress, but had actually taken up arms to overthrow the Government of the U.S., we had a right to stop the wheels of their government and to prohibit them from making laws for the government of their own citizens, the Senfrom Maryland objected to it as rather extreme and radical doctrine; but here today, for the simple omission to elect its own Senator, I find the Senfrom Maryland insisting that we have a right to deprive a State of the power of making laws for itself, going to the whole extent of whatever I claimed we might rightfully do for the crime of revolution and rebellion itself. Hereafter I have only to say that I hope m man will class me among the radicals. [Laughter]