Congress has passed both the Nebraska and the Colorado States'
Bills,—the Bills admitting them as States,—over the President's veto. The House of Representatives also passed on Wednesday, as we learn by Atlantic telegraph from the Times' correspondent at Washington, a Bill " establishing martial law in ten of the -States," and placing them under the command of officers of the regular Army. If this Bill is passed over the President's veto, it will probably bring the Congress into direct collision with the Supreme Court. And then there is nothing for it but to appoint new judges or overpower the Court with a constitutional amend- ment, which the new States may help Congress to pass. An in- stitution which affects to ignore a revolution in the very face of it, can never do anything but aggravate its intensity.
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