Mr. TRUMBULIL No, sir. Fitch and Bright were voted into the Senate by, as the Senator admits, usurped authority, and he makes that a precedent now for another usur pation to get somebody else in. After they were placer in the Senate by usured authority, in friend Mr. LANE, of Indiana,] was electe by the legislature to the Senate, and he came here to take the seat occu ied by one of those usurpers. I tried to give im the seat to which he was entitled. The Senfrom Connecticut is forgetful. He will find all that I have now stated in our records. Iwas not still under that usurpation. I think on that occasion one of my colleagues, the honorable Senfrom NewYork, now SecyState, gave notice that from year to year, while be retained a seat in the Senate, he would bring up that question. Now, sir, I have shown that the only ground upon which the Senator places himse f is one ofusurpation, one of physical power against the exercise of rightful authority; and he is driven to that position; he can occupy no other. No wonder that he took it, for any other is wholly untenable, at war with the practice of the Government, at war with the Constitution of the country. Now, what is the question about which so much has been said? The Constitution of the U.S. authorizes each House to judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its own members; but that presupposes the existence of a body having authority to elect members, and the questionwhether there is such a body is reserved to Congress, not to each House by itself, nor to the President. How was it with California? California claimed to be a State of this Union. The question of the admission of members from the State of California into the Senate and HoRep, and the recognition of the authorities which had been set 11 in California, agitated this whole Union; and )what did Congress do? Did each House consider whether the men sent here as members should take their seats, and settle the question in that way? Did it ever enter into the mind of a single human being in.either House of Congress at that time, that the Senate had a right to decide that the persons sent here from California were entitled to seats, and that that would determine the whole question, as the Sen ator says, whether the organization which had been inaugurated in California was a rightful organization, to be recognized or not? Nobody thought of such a thin. The Convress of the U.S., both Iiouses, decIared “the. State of California shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the U.S.A.”