Mr. HOWARD. Mr. President, I concur entirely with the Senfrom Vermont in the view which he takes of the clause that is now proposed to he stricken out. The Senfrom Illinois tells us that he does not wish to say anything about representation in Congress, but thinks it quite sufficient when the resolution goes so far as to declare that Tennessee is restored to her former practical and proper relations with the Union. Undoubtedly if the resolution stopped there it Would imply, of course, the right of Tennessee to send Sens&Reps to Congress. But I choose to go a little further; and I think the HoRep have acted wisely in declarin in this resolution, by a strong implication, tint the State of Tennessee, in consequence of having gone into the insurrection had forfeited her right to send Senators an Representatives to Congress, and that is fairly the implication from the language, which is that the State is “a sin entitled to be repre sented.” I like that an uage. It corresponds' exactly with m idea of testatus of Tennesseel during the rebellion and up to this time. It impliest at there was a period in which the State of Tennessee has not been entitled to send Sens&Reps to Congress. That has been the octriuc upon which Congress has proceeded all along; it is the doctrine of the act of 1861 giving to the President authority to declare certain States and parts of States in insurrection against the Government It is a recognition of the clear principle of law; in other words, that by waging war against the U.S. in the form of a State organization, and in a State themajority of whose citizens have joined in that insurrection, upholding the insurrectionary government, the State has forfeited, for the time being at least, all its political rights as a State of the Union. If it has so forfeited them, then whose duty is it to restore those rights, to remove that forfeiture? The duty of 'ongress very plainly, the lawmaking power which declared the insurrection to exist. this the duty of congress to restore those rights. I therefore shall vote against the amendment which is offered by the Senfrom Illinois. I wish to see this principle clearly recognized in our legislation that a war by a State of the Union against the U.S. operates as a forfeiture of its political rights as a member of the Union, on constitutes it an enemy of the U.S. During this period of forfeiture, therefore Mr. President, the State has no right to send representatives or Senators to Congress; and it its erightand the duty of Congress in the shape of a general statute to declare when this forfeiture shall be removed, and by what means it shall be removed.