Mr. DIXON I am not on the question of right. I am not on the question of moral r ht or wrong. I am on the question of power. 1 a Senator says physical power. So it is in one sense. We would tell our Sergeant at Arins to turn out a rejected member, and there it would be physical power. If we admitted him the only physica power exerted would be the power required of him to walk into the Chamber. I say it is a question of power wholly, and it is wholly in the Senate of the U.S. Congress may provide by law that a certain State shall not Sere presented here, and if the Senate of the U.S. sees fit to admit a member from that State as a Senator, he is a Senator, and wh? Because the Constitution says that each House shall be the judge of the elections, qualifications, and returns of its own The Senator must know instances The Senator recollects very well the case of Mr. Bright. Shortly after I came into the Senate I heard him argue that case. Mr. Bright, as the Senator claimed, was not elected here. He Was picked up in the streets of Washington, as it might be said—the very case at by the Senator. He was never elected to this body; it was scarcely claimed that he was elect ed; but by the vote of the Senate the slave power admitted him on this floor. What could we do? The Senator made an eloquent protest against it, and it was the 1st time I heard him s eak in this body, but could he eject Mr. right? and after Mr. Br ht was admitted, did he ever attempt to eject im? Did we not keep him here until we were compelled to expel him as a traitor. The Senator says that Congress must act in order to exclude a man, and he says that if the Emperor Maximilian were to take possession of Tennessee, and congress should act on the subject, its action would Ehve some force or weight or vitality, or there would be some necessity for Congress bein called upon so to do. I say that not only would there be no necessity, but no possibility of congress bein called upon to act. It is a question upon which congess has no jurisdiction, and it is a question of jurisdiction. What would be the form of a law passed by the HoRep and the Senate and signed by the President providing that a certain State should not be represented in this body for any reason, I care not what? Suppose Congress enacts by this resolution, if you call it an enacting resolution, that no member shall be admitted from any of the southern States, it would be futile, nugatory; the Senate could admit Senators from those States notwithstanding; that is my position.