Mr. DOOLITTLL. Mr. President, if we choose to admit or refuse to admit Senators upon this floor what have the HoRep to do about it? Can they sendt inir Sergeant at Arms over here and take out our members? Can they send over their Sergeant at Arms and put members into this body? Can the Supreme Court do it? Suppose they decide that somebody has a right to come into this body or that he ought to be kept out, can they send their marshal to the Senate with their decree that A B and C D shall take their places in the Senate of the U.S., or can they send over their marshal with their decree that AB or C D shall be taken from this body? Not at all. The idea that the POTUS can send down any person here directing that A B orC D shall he admitted into this body, or that A B and C D shall be removed from this body, is equally preposterous, absurd, and revolutionary. It is because I, as an individual member of this Senate, insist that upon this question of judging upon the right of representation in this body from every State, this body is independent of the HoRep, independent of the Supreme Court, independent of the Executive, independent of everybody under heaven, that I oppose the resolution that is now ending before the Senate a resolution which) on its face purports to be no law and has no binding effect. It binds nobody except as a man may be bound by a caucus resolution. You may say it binds his honor. It pledges him, that is all. This resolution has no effect. It is as void as a blank piece of aper, so far as any legal effect is concerned. lint there is contained in this resolution a proposition that we as Senators pledge ourselves that we will not act upon the question of the admission of Senators of this 0d until the House gives their consent. This is, substan tially, a mere caucus arrangement anyhow. It is not legislation. It is merely the expression of the opinion of gentlemen in the HoRep an gentlemen sitting here in the Senate that the 2 Houses of Congress have no authority to go into an examination of the right of representatives to seats here until the 2 Houses by JtResolution or act of Congress agree. That is m objection to this resolution. My honorable friendfrom Maine Mr. Fnssnnnmr] the other day in opening the ebate on this question said it was proposed to take away from congress all right to judge on the question of the right of members to their seats.