Mr. DAWES. I have reason to suppose that long before the holidays the clerk of the committee distinctly informed the Gentfrom NewYork [Mr. Bnoons] that there was no testimony in thislcase in behalf of the sitting member, and that if he had any to produce it must be produced immediately, in order that it might be printed with the other matter; that the other matter was to be sent to the printer upon a given day, and the committee was desi rous of having his testimony submitted, that all the matters might o together to the printer and be printed in one book. After that the notice was repeated through the clerk of the ComElections to the sitting member to produce his testimony, if there was any, that it might be printed with the testimony of the contestant, so that when the case might be ready for hearing there would be no cause or occasion for delay. This was before the holidays. After the holidays notice was given to these parties that the case would be ready for hearing on a given day. That notice was extended from time to time. There never has been an in timation to the committee from any quarter that there was any testimony whatever to be printed until within a few days past. There then up cared, I understand, not in this House, but in the Clerks office, a large mass of papers purportin, as the Clerk of the House is in formed have not seen the inside of itto be testimony for the sitting member. It was not directed to the Clerk of the House, or to the House, but as it stands now in the Clerks office it is directed to the sitting member by name. Where it has been during the time since the taking of the testimony closed by law I do not know. By the statute the time for taking the testimony in this case closed nearly a year since. The statute requires that the testimony shall be reduced to writing immediately upon its being taken, in the presence of the parties, by the judge taking the testimony, and by him scaled up and forthwith sent to the HoRep, directed to the Clerk of the HoRep. It is under these circumstances, Mr. Speaker, and after the case has been in hearing for 2 or 3 days before the committee, that in the absence of the committee from the House night before last, this packa e of papers in the Cler s office was referred tot e committee on the motion of the Gentfrom NewYork, [Mr. Baooxs] and ordered to be printed.