Mr. WILSON, of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I will briefly explain this bill, and then, if it be the desire of the House to have it postponed, I will interpose no objection. I will state that in the preparation of the bill and preamble the committee was careful, not to go beyond the precedents already established. In the recital of the preamble we have adopted the declaration of the POTUS, that the revolutionary progress made by the people of the South deprived certain portions of the Union of civil governments. e accept that declaration of the President. We have also followed the declaration made by Congress in the JtResolution providing for the admission of members from the State of Tennessee, that the political relation of portions of the Union represented formerly as the States named in Congress can only be restored by consent of the lawmaking power of the U.S.. Upon those two. dec larations we base the justification of the section of the bill. In the preparation of the bill we have followed the precedent established by the 38 h Congress when the following JtResolution was passed: JtResolution declaring certain States not entitled to representation in the Electoral College. Whereas the inhabitants and local authorities of the States of olina, GeorgiaV, iFrlgoirnidiaa,, Alabama NCarolina, Mississippi SCarolina, Texas, Arkansas, and Tennesseerebelled against the Government of the U.S., and were in such condition on the 8th day of November 1854, that no of tvhaeli U.S. r, President and the VEEP and laws thereof, was held therein on said day: Therefore, Be it rosalved by the Senate and HoRep of the U.S.A. in Congress assembled, That the States mentioned in the preamble to this JtResolution are not entitled to representation in the Electoral College for the choice of President and VEEP for the term of March, 1865; office commencingon the 4th day of and no electoral votes shall bereceived or counted from said States concerning the choice of PrAespipdreonvtedanFdeVbircuearyPresident for said termof office 8, 1865. So the only difference between this precedent established by the 38 h Congress and the section of the bill now reported is, that the JtResolution of the 38 h congress was confined in its operations to the presidential elections of 1864, while this bill provides that it shall apply indefinitely.