Mr. MCDOUGALL. I have the floor then on the appeal. If a rude remark or an accusation like that were made against a Senator it would be a grave offense and would deserve the condemnation of the Senate unless there was good cause why. But it is not within the cour tesy of the Senate to assault a person not present on the floor who cannot defend himself. To assault here a judge of the Supreme Court on the bench would be a violation parliament ary rules. If the Senfrom Ohio should go into the Supreme Court tomorrow morning and should say a rude thing of the President of the Senate, he would be immediately told by the presiding justice to take his seat. It is not within the courtesy and the law that a person absent, belonging to an independent branch of Government, should be assatilted by being accused of being an enemy of his country. Why? Because it is accusation of treason, if you '. substantially. When that question shall come here and the Senfrom Massachusetts shall be its champion, it being brought up here by its promoters from the HoRep, then he may discuss it as carefully and well as he can as a member of the high court of impeachment, if he chooses to be one of the impeaching parties. Otherwise, it is not within the license of a Senator to say of the President things of that kind that involve his integrity as a public officer. Sir, there have been times in the better days of the Republic when such things would not be listened to, would not be heard on this Senate floor or in the HoRep; and when, if any person should have said that of a Senator, whether he agreed or differed with him in politics, to the POTUS, he would have shown him the way to the door and asked him to ab sent himself. In our Supreme Court the rule has always been so. It has been witnessed by every Senator who has had anything to do with judicial tribunals, both in the States and in the Federal Government. It has been done here. The gentleman who presided over our councils here for many years, and who honored our body by being a member of it from Ver mont, never permitted words of that kind to be said of any dept of the Government that were not here to respond for themselves. if I am accused of treason or treachery or being an enemy of my country, I being here it is assumed that at least I have a chance to defend myself; but the absent may have no defenders.