Mr. BROOKS Mr. Speaker, I forbear entering into any discussion with my colleague on the matter of courtesy or discourtesy, as the gentleman is the best judge of that himself; but in reply to the honorable Gentfrom Massachusetts, [Mr. Dun3] who, I really believe at heart to be desirous to do justice, but who seems to have been irritated at me without any comprehension of the cause on my part, I desire to say he constantly uses language in this debate, in application to me, which some feeling for which I can but artially account. He says I have trifled with the ComElections. It is not true. It is not true I ever have had any notice to suppl or furnish my pers from that committee which I have consulcred official or unofficial. The honorable Gentfrom Massachusetts does not pretend to say that he has given me any formal written notice from the secretary of that committee. The honorable Gentfrom Massachusetts also wants the House to go on with this subject early, and he stated with much feeling that the reason why he wants to go on with it early was that the cholera season shall not arrive and members be compelled to adjourn. All this I say shows matter of feeling which I regret to see on the part of the honorable chair man of the ComElections. Now, Mr. Speaker, let me call the attention of the House to what the law requires of me as the sitting member. It will be found in Bright Ieys Digest, 265: "The said magistrate[meaning the judge who is authorized by law to take evidence in caseof a contested olectionl is hereby authorized and required to cause to be reducedto writing in his presence, and in the presence of the parties or their agents, if attend in and to beduly attested by the witnesses respect in l; after which he [the said magistrate]shall imme iiitily transmit by mail the said testimony. dul certified under his hand and scaled u i. to the Cler of the HoRep fort a time being, togetherwith acopy of the subpena and of the notice served upon the party. as provided in the preceding sectmn. If any error whatsoeVer, it has been committed on the part of the magistrate who had the custody and possession of these papers, and who transmitted them to the clerk of the ComElections, as required bylaw. I could not force Jud c Bmdy, of NewYork, nor Judge Russell, nor judge Barnard, who took this testimony, to submit it here at an earlier day, and if they failed in the execution of the law the honorable Gentfrom Massachusetts Dawns] ought to have asked for a process [rMo Mr. this House to serve upon those judges to compel them to submit the testimony here. I have only to say that I have cxerted all the power which I have ph sically, pecuniarily, an intellectually to proace the earliest transmission of this testimony to the Clerk of the House, as required by law and no man has more deeply regretted or been more injured by the delay in the transmission of it than I have myself. What has been the effect of this delay? Why, an exparts account has gone all over the country of frauds committed in my district, which are not founded on one word of truth from be ginning to end. Never was there a fairer election in any case in the world. I ran as no republican candidate; I ran as no Democratic candidate. I ran without a single inspector of election, a single register, a single canvasser in my favor, whi c the whole body of canvassers, registers, and inspectors were appointed by the combined influence of Tammany Hall and of the Republican party to deprive me of my just rights and of my just vote before the people of NewYork. The very 1st, the opening part of the testimony, on the part of the contestant, discloses my positionthat of Mr. Sherwood, page 30 of the document before the House.:: Question. Who were the candidates?. nurer. There were 3 candidates. Mr. will E. Dodge, Mr. Barr, and Mr. Brooks. uemon. What wero the politicsof the candidatosl “. lwwer. Mr. Dodgewas on the Union Republican ticket, Mr. Barr was the Democratic candidate, and Mr. Bnooits, I supiose, waswcll, I do not know what Mr. BROOKSclaimed to be. It is a pretty hard matter to tell. He was a candidate for election.” Well, that is what I was, a candidate for election; and I was elected. [Langhten] "is llll 10W! i "Q Whow" ocratic nominee? “Amway. Mr. Barr. I understood., “Queuirm. Had be what is more generally known as the regular nomination of the Democratic party I “Anniver. He had. sir.” Well, sir, that is my position. Tammany Hall and the Republican organization, which creates 3 registers, 3 inspectors of election, and 3 eanvassers, organized every one of those registers, canvassers, and inspectors in opposition to me; and I had not a single friend on the whole list and if any frauds were perpetrated they were perpetrated by the republican candidate, Mr. Dodge, and by the I am many candidate, Mr. Barr. There were 3 of us running: Mr. Barr as the Tammany Dem crat, Mr. Dodge as the Republican candidate, and I, on my own book, smashed all the machines got up in that election. Now, sir, how could fraud be committed? What object had I in having it done? Why should not I wish my testimony to go before the country at an early period, when I know and others know that exparte statements have gone forth from official persons in this HouseI will not say employed by the contestants, but garbled testimony from this exparte recordto exhibit fraud on my part, when I had not a single officer of election whatsoever to commit a fraud? No man regrets more than I do that the magistrate who had this testimony in charge did not submit it at an earlier period. An, Mr. Speaker, why was it not submitted at an earlier period? There are incidents in this election which will explain that as we approach it and examine it by and by, if the House ever chooses to take this testimony and examine it at all; if it is not shut out in this summary manner, which seems to be proposed by some parties in this House. Sir, this has been a contest in the city of NewYork between the dollar, the almighty dollar, and numbers, almighty numbers. Never was there a harder contest between those pow ers. The contestant is a man whose income is $1,000 a day every day he lives. His recorded, registered income is over $1,000 every day that he lives and when he went into the examination of this testimony, he was able to procure the ablest reporters, the best phono graphic writers, without regard to money or expense whatsoever, while I, humble in my means, nothing but the publisher of a newspaper, a mere printer, and 1nothing but the printer of a newspaper, and restricted in my means, was compel edto employ reporters at a cheaperrate, not as good phonegraphic writers; and the consequence was that Mr. Dodge, with his means, was at an early period able to present these documents while it took a much longer time upon the part of the lawyer employed by me, and the judge who had the taking of the testimony, to prepare mine. The consequence was that not until after the holida s could a judicial record he made up that the judges would certify; and when they were satisti with the record, as soon as possible, after the lst of January, they made up the record of that testimony and transmitted it to the Clerk of the House. GENERALS MEADE and THOMAS.