Mr. CONNESS. I have more than once called attention in the Senate to this practice. The abuses which result from it, and which are sought to be corrected by the bill now before us, arise in a great measure from the fact that the parties selected to govern and hold the high places in the Territories are not selected, as they should be, from the body of those coura geous men whom I have described, that O out and pioneer that country and underta e its reduction to civilized purposes. I do not expect by anything that I shall say here to be ab O to correct this general, as I think, perversion of power and misuse of power; but it is clear that if the selections were made with more care and with more regard to the persons to be governed, namely, the inhabitants of the T crritories, the persons in these places would be at home, the would not be running into the cities of the “ust; they would not be coming back to see their friends, and to exhibit themselves as returned Governors and judges, to be feasted and toasted, and exhibiting rich specimens selected from the ores of those new crritories, talking often very lenrnedly and very deceptively to the eastern people and th eastern mind about the riches of those countries of which they know little; of which prac tically, they know nothing. These and many abuses like them, would have an end if care was observed in selectin the men who are to govern these people an the men who are to administer the laws among them from themselves. It is not, Mr. President, for the want of talent there that their Governors and administrators of the laws among them are selected elsewhere. We have sense now in point; I think it is worthy of attention. We have sent a soldier out very recently to fill the office of se crctar of a territory in the West. He finally, as t to law provides, fills the office of Governor protempore during the absence of that functionary. He has given new administration in that Territory; he by his acts has released from confinement men guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, and the population, maddened at the absurd pretensions and assumptions, have followed a criminal and hung him to the next tree. This is the administration of law that is now going on in one of the Territories! I hope without extending these remarks, which if time permitted I would do, that some measure of this kind carefully prepared will pass and become a law, and that these gentlemen selected and sent out into these places of honor, and to them frequently of profit, (for some of them go further than 10 inmate ends in reaching profit) will be required to make their domici e at least, or yield the Offices that in man instances the so discreditnhl fill.