Mr. WADE. I do not suppose that it is possible for anyone to come to the conclusion that this joint act of 3 parties, as I said before. could be annulled by nny 2 of them. “'hcn Maryland and Virginia made their grants and the General Government accepted them, it was the joint act of all, und cannot be annulled without. the consent of all. Even if the act of retrocession was constitutional, I so pose it would be in our power to reaequire thje territory, and that, me, against the will of Virginia and her Legislature. So I think. I do not see.what right has attached to her. But, however that may be, we ought, in my judgment, to do more than to tell the men whom we have wronged by an act that we believe to be unconstitutional, to work out their own salvation through the courts. I think we ought to undo that which we have wron full done. I think it is due to those peop e Wiose rights have been infringed upon by our unconstitutional legislation, and it is no more than justice and right that we should wipe out this act, and if anyone claims that its repeal is unconstitutional, let those who so believe and who regard the original law as constitutional test the question before the prOper tribunal. Every Semr tor who has 'et spoken on the subject seems to intimate n doubt that the actives wrongful and without constitutional authority. Let us give the benefit of that opinion to those Union men whose righm have been infringed upon by it, and let those who believe that it is a constitutional act tokethe initiutive, with the burden on their pockets, of going into court and showing that it is constitutional. But let us legislate upon our convictions, and let us not legislate to the detriment of those'who, we believe, I have been wronged. resentntives relating to the equalization of so 7 diers’ bounties. It Is a mutter that I think the [have no doubt that this is a judicial question rt'wc sec fit to treat it. so, and so are manyother questions. Those who passed the original law did not so regard it. It was treated as a legislative question then, and it ought to be so with us. Now, sir. I hope that the bill will be post poned until gentlemen's minds shall be turned to it more particularly than they are now, and we will take it up at a convenient season' and endeavor to dispose of it.