Mr. DOOLlTTLE. Now, Mr. President, to come back to the case of Tennessee, themass of the people of the eastern part of the State of Tennessee have been as loyal as the people in man of the northern States; they have sufferedhts much; they have fought as well for the Union, and there are certainly 2 or 3 dia tricts in that State justas loyal as districts in Missouri, districts in Kentucky, districts in Ms ryland, and even districts in some of the States further north than those States. Those distriets may be entitled to representution, even if, on examination by our In cinry Committee, it should be found that the State of Tennessee enerally has been so overcome by the rebellion, so distracted by the civilWar, that the people are not in a condition to elect a legislaure at all, and Tennessee might be entitled to have Representatives from some of her districts when she would not be entitled to have a Senator on this floor; and so it might occur vice versa. The only or ument I have ever heard that bears againstt s position is the argument to be drawn from the act of Congress of 1861, which authorized the President to declare these States in insurrection. That act on its face did not shut us ollfrom political intercourse withthose States. The act on its face simply cuts off commercial intercourse, and cuts otfthat commercial intercourse just so far as the President in his judgment shall deem, it necessary as a new war power and a measure of war to compel those States to obedience to the Constitution. How can any man contend that this act of 1861, which I have before me, was intended to cut off political intercourse? After reciting the conditions u pon which the proclamations should issue, it “ declares: Then and in such case it may and shall be Md for the President by proclamation. to declare that the inhabitants of sueh State, or any section oipart thereof where such insurrection exists, nreinnstateo! insurrection against the U.S.: and them upon all commercial intercourse brand between the same, and the citizens thereof and the citizens of the rest of the U.S shall ceaseand be unlawful so len as such condition of hostility wrhnllnnminnc: and all goods, ” &c. passing from one section to the other are liable to.be confiscated. Now, what is conclusive evidence that there was no intention to cut us off from political intercourse from Tennessee is the fact that Mr. Johnson, then a Senfrom Tennessee, reprwenting the State of tennessee in this body, voted for this very act. have before me the vote that was taken on the passage of this act. The gentlemen who voted or it were. “ HmAnthuny. Bine hnm. Chandler.Clark.“ or Cowan. Dixon Doolittie. Ft ssenden. Foot, oster. Grimes. llalc. llarlun. ilarris, llowc. J 11] Inn of Tennessee. King. Lune of Indiana. Lane of Kansas, Luthaui. Moi rill. Nesmith. Poineroy, Rice. aulsbury. Sherman. Simmons. Sumner. Ien Eyck. bull; Wade, “ilkinson, wilmot and Wilson." and nowgentlemen pretend to say that act was intende to cut up OS from political asso ciation with the State of Tennessee, and to degrive Tennessee of her representative in this be.