Mr. BRANDEGEE. Let me 1st suggest an objection to the bill, and then I will yield. Mr. Speaker, I am in favor of the object sought to be attained by the Gentfrom Ohio, [Mr. SHELLABARGER,) and I understand that my delegation are in favor of that object. We think it a meritorious bill, and that the object is one necessary to be provided for; but I am fearful that some complication, especially for Connecticut, will arise out of the operation of the gentleman's amendment, if it becomes a law, that he has not contemplated, and it is one that it seems to me it is impossible to get rid of by any amendment proposed in so hasty's Inanner. This bill, which seems likely to pass this congress, or at any rate this House, provides that the next Congress shall meet upon the 4th of March next. If it it does pass, Congress will then meet with 4 States, and perhaps 5 States, unrepresentedhere that are now represented, and one of those States is Connecticut. I am, and the connecticut delegation are, clearly of the opinion that the House ought to provide that when Congress assembles, in some way Connecticut should be represented by an electionheldprior to that time. Butthe amendment of the Gentfrom Ohio, as I understand it from the mere reading at the Clerk's desk, provides that the election of Representatives from Connecticut shall be held on the 22d day of February, under the laws of the State, and that unless the legislatureshall provide for an election on that day, the Governor by proclamation shall so provide. Ourelection is held now on the 1st Monday in April, and this amendment provides that it shall be held on the 22d of february. The registration law of our State, a most salutary and wholesome law, which has commended itself in its results to the people of the State, provides by its machinery that no man in the Stateshallvote except his name was registered uponcertain days, and one of those days is the Wednesdayprior to the 1st Monday in April, andhence. bill passes and you provide that the election shall take place in Connecti cut on the 22d of February, under the laws of the State no human being can vote at Citotion. that