Mr. OHNSON. I certainly have no desire to delay the action of the Senate if their minds are made up on the question; but I do not understand this amendment, and I have had it and the original section in my band now for some 3 or 4 minutes; at least I do not understand it as I suppose it is understood by the gentleman who oiiers it. It appears to me to be obnoxious to this objection, and if it be liable to this objection I imagine that the senators who are now apparently in favor of it will correct it in that particular. That part of the amendment to which I refer says that whenever the right to vote at any election held under the Constitution and laws of the U.S., or ofany State, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such States, being 21 years of age, &c., a deduction is to be made. Now, sir, in all the States certainly in mine, and no doubt in all there are local as contradictinguislied from State elections. There are city elections, county elections, and district or borough elections; and those city and county and district elections are held undersome law of the State in which the city or county or district or borough may be; and in those elections, according to the laws of the States, certain qualifications are prescribed. residence within the limits of the locality and a property qualification in some. Now, is it proposed to say that if every man in a State is not at liberty to vote at a city or a county or a borough election that is to affect the basis of representation? I submit to the friends of this measure, and I speak it, as I am sure the senate will believe me, in all sincerity, when I say as it is all important that the provision which we are about to adopt, or whatever we may adopt shall be as certain as we can make it, that we had better print this amenduieut and bring to the consideration of it in the morning a better judgment than we may be able to form at least than I am able to form at this time. move, therefore, that the amendment lie upon the table and be printed.