Mr. SCHENCK said: Mr. Speaker: I do not propose to address the House at any lengthon the subject we have now before us; but do regard this discussion as in every sense a most interestin and important one. Earlyin the debate, ifI could have obtained the floor, I should have been glad to enter into the matter somewhat at large. I propose to confine myself to some 2 or 3 remarks on the condition of the question, and on the two antagonistic schemes presented for remedying what is admitted, at least by all on this side of the House, to be a great evil. It is not a new thing for me, sir, to feel an interest in this subject. By the present Constitution of the U.S. there is a provision for an unequal system of representation which, now that slavery, the cause of it, has gone, we propose also to get rid of. This evil was felt long before slavery wasitself, by the late amendment to the Constitution of the U.S., abolished throughout the whole broad expanse of this land; and if I may be permitted to refer to my own part in the treatment of this question, at a day much earlier than this, I will show by reference to an argument which I submitted 17 years and a half ago in the HoRep of the U.S. I manifested, for one, a determination I felt then, in common with others, that this evil of unequal representation should be spread no further; just as upon the same principle I would now getrid o it altogether. I will, at the risk of being considered egotis tical in repeating myself, send up to the Clerks desk a short ektract fronia s cech I made here the lst of August, 1848. A illwas then pending and under consideration to organize a government for Oregon, a territorial government. During the discussion of that bill it was proposed by agentlemnnfrom the South, then a Representative upon this floor, to amend so as to authorizethe carrying of their property into Oregon. I was among those who won d not object to the taking of property there, including 5 aves held as such by the laws prevailing in certain sections of the Union, because I well understood, or believed, that the act of taking slaves to Oregon would be of itself their inanumission. This suggestion broulght another Gentfrom the South to the in of his friend, who moved further to amend by a provision that all property carried there should) still be held as property. On this s rung up a long debate, involving the whole policy in regard to the Territories in connection with the exclusion of slavery from them and the effect of carrying slave property into what was the common heritage and under the common jurisdiction of the national Government. I ask the Clerk to read the paragraphs I have marked from that speech. U. n I