Mr. KASSON. I charge the facts so to be upon direct information. Now, I wish to say that I regard myself, as well as the other cul prits presented at the bar of the House with such extraordinary stringency this morning, as having a valid excuse for leaving the House at a very late hour last night, being unable to remain here without very great personal discomfort from physical prostration and fatigue. But I do not and did not present that excuse this morning; nor will I deny that my physical strength might have sustained me here through the entire session of yesterday. But when the Gentfrom Indiana [Mr. FAR QUHAR] gets up on this floor and with a voice that resounds throughout the Hall and the gal leries of this Chamber, demands a vindication of the dignity and rules of this House, I cannot resist the inclination to call the attention of the House to the fact that there has been a violation of its rules committed by the Gentfrom Indiana himself, much greater thaning out of the doors of this Hall after they have been opened. By an order of this House, under proceedings instituted under a call of the House, the doors of this Hall were closed. I, with others sat here continually from early morning unti late at night for the purpose of getting on with the business. I sat at my desk here, working at intervals on matters connected with business before my committee. The Gentfrom Indiana [Mr. FARQUBAR] was absent from the House without its leave. After the doors had been closed for the purpose of ascertaining who were within the Hall to aid in the transaction of the business of the House, and who were absent from its sessions without its leave, my friendfrom Indiana, instead of waiting for the order of the House to have its doors again opened, when he would have been brought in here by the Sergeant at Arms, “forced his way in, ” as one gentleman says, “slipped in, ” as another says, and thus evaded responsi bility which the rules of the House imposed upon him. Now, I took the whole responsibility of ab senting myself last night, and when proceed.ings under the call were suspended at ten or 11 o'clock, and the doors were opened to everybody, I availed myself of the opportunity to retire and refresh my exhausted physical energies by getting something to eat. Now, under these circumstances, I say it hardly lies in the mouth of my eloquent friendfrom Indiana [Mr. FARQUHAR] to demand a vindication of the dignity of this House and the observance of its rules by members. Let the responsibility rest where it belongs; but let not those who have themselves violated the I rules of the House rise here and demand that those who from physical necessity left the House through the open doors shall be brought to its bar and subjected to the action of the House. Now, sir, I am of course ready to yield the floor to the Gentfrom Indiana, [Mr. FAR QUHAR,) if he desires to show cause why he should not present himself at the bar of the House. Otherwise I shall move the previous question.