Mr. SHELLABARGER. I will make a statement to the House in regard to those papers. Since the committee made its report to the House its attention has been invited to the papers which have been referred to by my colleague, and they have received the attention of the committee. Although the papers are not before the House, I desire, in justice to the committee, to make a statement in ref erence to the matter. These papers relate in the main to the Hoboken matter, a matter upon which the committee has not passed in its findings except so far as it might throw light upon the animus of the letter to Mr. Bums. The introduction and consideration of those papers, therefore, could not affectany conclusion to which the committee came, except in regard to the motives for writing that letter. There is, outside of these papers, what the committee deemed abundant evidence to settle the question of the animus of the letter and to bring the committee unanimously to the conclusion which it attained as to the motives which rompted the writing of that letter; so that, while the committee’s attention was not. drawn to these papers, they thus considered the matter of their contents, and determined nothing contained in them in any possible view of this case affecting any conclusion to which the committee came. Another statement I have to make is, that those letters, if they are of value to GenlFry will be available for his defense in the further prosecution of this matter, should the House deem any further prosecution proper under the resolution already adopted. Sb that it seems to me in no view can any prejudice be worked to GenlFry by the exclusion for the present of these letters. Another statement I desire here to make is, that the 2 letters deemed most material by the counsel for GenlFry, the only two, if I remember correctly, which be deemed of value enough to insert in his printed or ment, are now introduced into the report of the commit tee, perhaps irregularly, but introduced in extreme solicitude that nothing should be excluded that could be of service to GenlFry. That matter is fully eXplained in the report of the committee. As I have said, the 2 principal letters contained in this memorial now apear in the report of the committee. ow, Mr. Speaker, the House has heard or had an opportunity of hearing a large portion of this report. The committee felt forced to make it volumine us, as it is, on account of the impossibility of making it less volumine us and yet present fairly and justly the facts bearing on this important question of the privileges o the House, and of a member of it. I trust, Mr. Speaker, I will not be deemed in doing what I am about to do as neglecting the execution of the duties which I owe to this important question of privilege in omitting to detain the ease in again present in what has been fully presented in the report of the committee. I say I will refrain from the discussion of this question at this time. Unless something shall 0 said by other members of the House requiring notice I shall content myself by yielding the floor and permitting any other gentleman who may wish to do so to speak to this question. I shall ask the House to 2nd the previous question so that we shall fix the time for closing debate, disposing 10f the case today. If there be no member who desires to be heard I ask the House at once to order the main question.