Mr. ROUSSEAU. I will relieve the Gentfrom any further trouble on the subject. I should be very sorry to abuse the evidently liberal courtesy of the House. I wish to say a single word to the Gentfrom Massachusetts, [ML BANKS. I remarked, with all courtesy, that he seeme to have lain in wait in the argument. The gentleman says I do him injustice, and perhaps, if be under stood me as he states he did, do. I must, however, be allowed to express, in view of his remarkable disclaimer, my amazement that his whole argument, or almost the whole of it, seemed to be devoted to me, and not, as he allfipes to members who assailed him. Mr. Speaker, I wish to call the attention of the House to the beginning of this matter. The gentleman the other do and I merely allude toitasaprefaes to what I wish to say remarked There was no arrange that I had waited 4 days to redress the grieviance complained of. It will be seen that he I was mistaken by a day though that perhaps this a small matter. The discussion took place on Monday and on Thursday evening the col, lision took place. It is assumed that in that into val my feelings had time to cool. I think genmen will agree with me in this, that no time is long enough for “cooling” when one is defamed and maligned upon the record of the nation. When a man has been outrageously attacked in his reputation, especially in the enduring form of a record to be handed down to posterity, he is not likely to learn temperance by a frequent recurrence to that unredressed wrong. The passage of 3 days had no such etTect; it could have had none. Iwaited, as I thought I ought, to permit this House to take the matter into its own hands. Did the House expect me to supplieatingly call attention to what members now seem so sensitively alive to, in regard to the dignity and privileges of this House? The indignity had occurred on this floor and members had stood by and allowed it to remain to stain their proceedings. In my judgment injustice was done me in that no gentleman brought the matter before the House in such form asto punish both the member and myself if I deserved sueli censure.