Mr. KASSON. I must be excused at the present time., Now, when men come here like oloocl Johnson, whose hands are not red with the blood of loyal men, and if red at all are red with the blood of rebels, for us to reject them from our presence as unclean men, not titleven to make a showing of their case, is an outrage upon the popular sense of justice in this country against which we cannot sustain ourselves be ore the people. Inhave always v taught to hear the other side, according to the old maxim. audi alteram fartcm, and I am unwilling, sitting as a legislaor, to decide in a case of which I have not heard both sides, as I shoald be, as a judge upon the bench, to decide upon an exparte statement, when both parties were before me. The real question, it seems to me, which“ has not yet been passed upon by this House, or by any conventiou of the partyto which I belong is, whether the power that isvncated by the usur pation of a rebel State government ascends to the U.S. Government in congressns sembled or falls as a; lapSed poWer into the hands of the people who are in allegiance to the Government of the U.S. within the particular State. I hold, sir, that the power of reorganization lapses to the loyal people within 1. at jurisdiction, even if they numiier but one in every 100. other gentlemen on this floor hol that it lapses, so to speak, to the Government of the U.S. in congress assembled, though in this view they are without any precedent in the history of the Government to sustain them. Far more logical is the position of my distinguished frien from Pennsylvania [Mr. Srevexsjthat our power is that of conquerors than to maintain that the power is transferred to the Congress of the U.S. from an original State of this Union whose government has been usurped. Now, sir. on this question, and on the question of loyalty, and on all the questions invo ved, I desire that a loyal man, a ghting loyal man, whom the loyal people have sent to represent them here, shall be permitted to exchange his view with me and with us all on this floor before we decide against him. For that reason I ask that he may be allowed the privileges of the floor.