Mr. HISE. I will answer the gentleman's question. It is provided in the Constitution of the U.S. that a majority of all the Representatives is required for the transaction of business. A majority of all the Representatives means a majority of all the Representatives from every State of the Union, whether in a state of war or of peace. But the point to which I wish to direct the attention of the House at this period of my remarks is this: that there is no provision in the Constitution for the government of a territory. There is no authority in the Constitution for the Congress of the??. States by and through its agencies, legislative, executive, or judicial, to govern any community or body of people except they be States. States adopted the Constitution, States furnished the Representatives, States provided for and appointed agencies, and the extent ofity the author. of those agencies is what the States have made it. I well remember that President Lincoln in one of his messages or inaugurals I do not at this moment remember which boldly assumed the ground that there never were States out of the Union existing on this continent; that the Government of the U.S. was para mount and supreme to all intents and purposes, only by restraint where majorities could not be maintained. In other words, that it was a popular Government, a Government of the majority, and that only majorities in the legislative branch had a right to pass laws of any description to which the minority of the people or of the States were bound to submit. The clear implication of that message or inau gural was that there never had existed sovereign and independent States outside of the Union. Now, I will acknowledge that before the Articles of Confederation there were several attempts among the Colonies to protect themselves against war with the Indian tribes by an aggregation of their powers. A portion of the country was colonized by the Dutch and there were attempts at alliance between the Colonies, but they never succeeded in establishing any connection between them of a governmental character. You cannot govern Territories. If you do you usurppower without constitutional authority. There is no authority in the Constitution to govern Territories. This is a Government of States in which all the States are be represented. The States choose the legislative and the President, and the President appoints judicial officers, and yet you exclude, and it is proposed to keep out, ten of the States from repremillion people hazarded a war with G sentation in Congress right in the teeth of a positive injunction in the Constitution itself that every State of the Union shall be represented according to a certain ratio of inhab itants, and that it shall have equal representation in the U.S. Senate.