Mr. WADE. I am opposed to this resolution. I do not believe that any session since I have been a member of the Senate has ever had so much important business thrust upon it at this period as this session has. There are a great many bills from the House, unfinished business of the last session, to dispose of, which will be as much and more than wishalfbe able to do if we pursue a very diligent course; and now it is proposed to adjourn over nearly 2 weeks. do nothing. I do not understand that we have been in the habit of making such adjournments. The adjournment at the last session was the 1st one I have known, where I believe we adjourned for about 2 weeks, and left the pressing business of the country to pursue our own amusements. I do not think we ought to do it. I should be very glad if I could by my vote accommodate gentlemen who wish to go away; but it seems to me the business of the country 1st demands our attention. I believe there is a great accumulation of business that we ought immediately to proceed with and I think we are in danger of not getting half through with what we shall have to do. As to the next session, on the 4th of March, I do not know anything about that. It is so remote and so novel that I can predicate no action upon it, Mr. TRUMBULL. Mr. President, since I have been a member of the Senate I am aware, as has been said by the Senfrom Ohio, [Mr. SherMAN, 1 that we have usually done little or no business during the holidays; but that the extent of our adjournments has been from Christmas until NewYear's, or till the 2d day of January. Now it is proposed to extend this time perhaps last year we did so to adjourn on the 20th, and members want to know whether this resolution is to be adopted so that they can make their arrangements to leave at once. They are not willing to wait till the 20th arrives to have it determined, they desire to have it determined now; and i presume the result will be that there will be no quorum for a day or 2 before the 20th and for a day or 2 perhaps after the 3d of January. It is really throwing away almost a month of this short session a session when we have got more important business, I think, than we ever had at any?, short session before. addition to the bill spoken of by the Senfrom Maine, about which there has been such urgency, and which I reported from the ComJudiciary some days ago I allude to the bill to repeal that clause of the confisca.tion act conferring upon the President authority to grant pardons and issue proclamations. amnesty in addition to that bill which I have tried to get up, and the Senate by a vote refused on one occasion to take up because other business was considered more important, and which I desired and intended to call up this morning, but a debate arose as to 2 other measures, and there was no opportunity to get it up in addition to that, I say, we have a very important bill reported from the ComJudiciary at the last session, and which was called up near the close of the session, entitled “An act relating to habeascorpus, and regulating judicial proceedings in certain cases, ” the object of which is to protect loyal men from prosecutions in their State courts a bill of very great importance and very great urgency. The object of the bill is to afford parties an opportunity to transfer their suits to the Federal courts where they can be protected by the U.S. laws, and where the laws of the U.S. are respected and enforced, which I am sorry to say is not the case in some of the socalled State courts in the rebellious States.