Mr. TRUMBULL. I so understand it, and I see not how any other legitimate inference could be drawn from the remarks of the Scu ator. But, sir, it is known that the Executive has asserted authority over this question of reconstruction, and concedes to Congress nothing but the right of passing upon the admission of members, and indeed does not concede that to Congress but to each House separately. Now, sir, this is a JtResolution which comes from the HoRep, and of course must go to the President for his approval; and what is it? It is a “JtResolution declaring Tennessee again entitled to Sens&Reps in Congress." Now I say very frankl, to the Senfrom Ohio, that I am 0 posed; decidedly opposed, to adopting a resolution simply confining Congress to the admission of Representatives and senators. Wc have jurisdiction over this whole subject and I am not for adopting a proosition merely declaring that Sens&Reps may come here a matter that Congress has nothing to do with so far as the qualification, election, and return of a member is concerned. I agree with what is contended for 11)OH this floor by the friends of the President, that each House must pass separately upon the clcclions. qualifications, and returns of its members; Congress has nothing to do with that question; but what is it that We are legislating about? It is whether the condition of things inTennessee, brought about by the rebellion, so dissevered the political relations between the State government of Tennessee and the Government of the U.S. that it lost representation hero, and whether it can have any right to representation or any other rightas a State, until we recognize it. Our resolution as we report it is not simplfithat Tennessee is entitle to Senators, and epresentatives, but we report that the government organized in Tennessee, under a constitution which was submitted to the popu lar vote, and ratified, as proclaimed by AndrewJohnson himself, “by a large popular vote, ” is the legitimate government of the State of Tennessee, entitle, not to representation we say nothing about representation but entitled to alfthe rights beloning to one of the States of this Union. Sir, ft is much broader than, sentation” of course; entitled to the guaran ithe House proposition. “Entitled to repretee of a RFG; entitled to every rivht which the State of Ohio or the State of Illinois has; and, of course, among those rights is the right of representation. Now, sir, at this stage of the proceedin I do not propose to be drawn into an extended remarks; but the preamble of the house resolution simply places the admission of the State ofTennessee upon the fact of its having adopted the constitutionul amendment; thatis all. 'en nessee has done much more than this; she is in a very different position from most of the other southern States. Her constitution, I believe, is the only one of all the constitutions which have been adopted in the rebellious States since the rebellion that was submitted to a“ll popular vote and ratified by the people. pern)s the same thing may have been done in Arkansas. I am not sure but that there may be one or 2 other instances.