Mr. HOWE. Yes, sir, I will: “As I have said before in the courseof this debate, the people of any State, whatever may be the limitations in their government, whether as to slavery o anything else, may choose to become dissolved an not to they exercise the political functions with which are endowed, whether they are old or new; and when they cease to exercise those functions, to hold elections, to send Sens&Reps, and tpoolietixcearlcisceomthmeuontihtieers, acts which are necessary in of course, as an organized political community, that State becomesdissolved, and there is no power in the Government at all, because in the nature of things there cannot be, to compel those people to exercise those functions. admit this State with this fundamental condition, which becomes a part of the act of admission, then any action which her agents and representatives may take under it is primafacie evidence that they are exercising political power under the cghraanrtter of incorporation which we have chosen to them. If it turns out afterward that the agents who have thus assumed to represent the State and to exercise those functions with which we have in svteosetkehdotlhdeemrs, are repudiated by their people, their to usean apt illustration, and thestock holders choose toothe corporation, then of course the representative functions of those agents must cease, and we shall only be in the condition that we often are for a short time of having had representatives in this body who, it finally turned out, had no right to be here.” if I understand that, it means simply this: that if we accept the State upon this funda.mental condition there is yet reserved to Nebraska I do not understand whether to the people or the Legislature or the Governor or the courts of Nebraska but to Nebraska in some shape there is yet reserved the power to say, nothwithstanding, we have taken her representatives in here, whether she consents to that condition or not, Mr. EDMUNDS. Allow me to say to my friend, that if we admit Nebraska without this condition at all, if we pass the bill just as it is precisely the power that I was speaking of yesterday is reserved to her still because we cannot enforce the specific performance of political duties. That is all there is of that.