Mr. JOHNSON. I rise, sir, with no view to present a memorial, but to refer to what the honorable member from Wisconsin [Mr. Howe] is reported to have said on Friday in what might be called a colloquy between himself and myself, which I did not hear at the time, or I would then have done what I am now about to do. The honorable member supposed, as I collect from his speech, as reported, and I suppose the report is accurate, that in what I had said in relation to him it was my purpose to taunt the State of Wisconsin with having sent him to this body. I should have hoped that my friend never would for a moment have supposed that in anything I had said, or was capable of saying, I intended or could intend any reflection upon him, and particularly upon his State from his being her representative on this floor. Our relations ever since we have been together in the Senate have been upon my part, and I have no doubt upon his, entirely cordial. I have felt for him the sincerest esteem, and that esteem I know I shall continue to feel as long as we remain here and thereafter. So far from my desiring to taunt the State of Wisconsin with having him as her representative upon this floor, I know no man in that State, and I know a great many there who are members of his own party, whom I would be more glad to see upon this floor as the honorable member from Wisconsin. I could wish, as I have no doubt he would wish in regard to myself, if he spoke of my position as a Senator on this floor, that upon some of the political topics of the day his opinions coincided with my own. The opinions which he entertains, I have no doubt, are just as sin cerely entertained as the opposite that I enter tain. I would be the last member of the senate to evince, even in the most distant way, any want of courtesy to any associate upon this floor. I am not conscious that I have ever done it upon any former occasion; and if I may have said anything which could be construed into any purpose of the kind to which I allude I beg the honorable Senator to be assured that it was as far from my purpose as anything that is the most absolutely foreign to any purpose I ever had, or can have, jI trust would be foreign to my own nature.