Mr. DAWES. In the 1st part of my colleague’s proposition I agree entirely, to wit, that it is impossible for anyone to come here and be entitled to admission as a Representative from any community until that community has become a State of this Union. But, sir, he and I differ entirely upon the question of the right of any of these States to representation. I believe in their right from the beginning. I also believe in their incapacity, growing out of the rebellion. They have always been States, but States disorganized, and therefore unable to elect Representatives; and the question with me is one of fact, not of legal right; whether they are capable of being represented, not whether they are entitled to representation. By their own folly and rebellion they have placed themselves in a position where they have an incapacity of representation, that is, an inability to elect, and it is perfectly consistent that the credentials of a man claiming to be elected should be referred to the appropriate committee, while another committee should pass upon the grave question of the condition of the State and the character of its Organic law. When they shall stand up, erect and clothed in their right mind, then they will be capable of electing Representatives. But, sir, it is idle for my colleague and myself to enter into any discussion upon this question. The practical result would be the same under his tieory and niider mine. He says that when they are capable of electing Representatives they are entitled to do so. I say their title has always been good, but they cannot exercise it because they are in rebellion, or not iget sufficiently out of it, and that until they have so far restored domestic tranquillity as to obey the law, conform themselves to it, and erect and maintain a State government republican in form, they are not capable of electing Representatives. Sir, is it necessary for every State in this 'Union that changes its form of government to be readmitted or re recognized as a hie before it can send Representatives here “I The State of RhdIsland changed its form of government in the most radical particular. The constituted authorities of teU.S. did not insist upon it that the Representatives chosen under the new State overuinent of RhdIsland should stand at the door knocking until that new State government was recognized. They assumed that the State of Rho e Island was capable of electing Representatives. There had been no state of things calling for an investigation. Not so with these States. But, sir, I am occupying much more time than I intended. Let me only add that this question is entirely independent of what constitutional amendments the exigencies of the times may demand.