Mr. CONNESS. I rise for a single moment, sir, to aquestion of privilege. I find in the Globe oft is morning that after I left the Senate Chamber yesterday, pending a personal dilficulty forced upon me here, the Senfrom California [Mr. MCDOUGALL] went on with a long statement of a icvance that he professed to have against me ting as far back as 1852 which he said was the cause of his attack, as i understand the statement he made here. It Would fully prove at least that the Senator had a good memory and held revenge better than he holds some other things. Without dwelling upon this question, sir, I will briefly say that he alludes to a nomination of his, or a candidacy of his, for the HoRep in 1852, before the Democratic convention assembled at Benicia, in California, in that year; and he makes a long statement, in regard to whichI have no personal knowledge, and most of which, I apprehend, exists only in his own fancies and brain. But he brings to my mind one material fact that I desire to put on record; and for that purpose I rise. I think it is more than probable t atI was a member of that convention and would have an ported him for Congress but that his chief advocate, the man who put him in nomination, was a notorious traitor, exGovernor Smith of Virginia, who was then in our State for the express purpose of giving that State to the South as an outlet for the uture confederacy. He aimed at political power there and was then laying its oundntion, and the man who was put forward in that convention by Smith could not, under any circumstances, secure then any vote of mine, for my purpose in bein a member of that convention was to offer a the resistance that I could to the schemes then in embryo and being developed there for the attemptto establish a southern confederacy at a later do, founded upon the corner stone of slavery. remember very well that I did reply to Smith in the convention, and thereafter opposed the nomination that he put forward, but that nominee was nominated and elected, and was a member of the HoRep in 1854, and, I believe, there voted for the celebrated Kansas Nebraska act, which was a part of the beginning of the end. That is all that I desire to say on the subject and I say it only that it may go as a part of this record. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.