Mr. BLAINE. I must decline to yield further unless for the purpose of explanation. I on to remark that an additional reason a verse to the suffrage basis will be found in the fact that the moment you make suffrage the basis of distributing Representatives among the States, you inevitabl, by logical sequence, make it the basis of; distributing Representatives within the States. I want to be understood on this point. If we distribute representation on the basis of voters, the States will take it up by logical sequence, and within their own territory distribute their Representatives on the basis of voters, and a city or district of country which might have a surplus or a deficiency of males over 21 years of age would either aggrandize itself or lose its properweight and power as the figures might down. You cannot resist that conclusion. That is one of the evils that will follow from the suffrage basis. Following that by a slight aradox, I think this amendment, excluding by acks from the basis of representation, will, by the operation of the same principle, have reeisely the opposite effect in the South, name y: if you cut off the blacks from being enumerated in the basis of representation in the southern States the white population of those States will imme diately distribute representatives within their own territory on the basis of white population. Therefore the most densel populated negro districtswill not he allowc to offsetthe most densely populated white districts. It therefore becomes an immediate and ressing interest with those districts to enfranciiise the negroes. Do you an pose the 11land districts of Georgia and SCarolina, inhabited largely by whites, will, in the event of the adoption of this amendm ent, allow the distribution of representatives to be made on the basis of the whole population? B no means. They will at once insist on the white basis within the State. Therefore you makeit the imperative and most urgent interest of the late slave masters, in the price reons and dens! po ulated negro districts in the South, to enfranchise the black man. upland and rice regions to which I have referred differ in soil, climate, air, sky, and population as much as the Tierra Caliente and the Tierra Templada of Mexico do today or as they did 300 years ago. while I shall vote for the proposition, I shall do so with some reluctance unless it is amended, and I do not regret, therefore, that the previous question was not sustained. I am egotistic enough to believe that the phraseology of the original resolution as introduced by me was better than The that employed in the pending amendment. The phrase “civil or political rights or privileges, ” which I employer, is broader and more comrehensive than the term “ elective franchise, for I fear, with the Gentfrom Illinois, [Mr. FARNSWORTH] that under the latter phrase the most vicious evasionslmight be practiced. As that gentleman has well said, the might make suffrage deend on ownership o 50 acres of land, and t ien prohibit any negro holding real estate; but no such mockery as this could be perpetrated under the provisions of the amendment as I oriinally submitted it.