Mr. DAVIS. I would rather have better testimony of the fact. I want it proved that Booth was in that barn; I cannot conceive, if he was in the barn, why he was not taken alive and brought to this city alive. I have never seen anybody or the cwdence of anybody that identified Booth after he is said to have been killed. Why so much secrecy about it? Why was not his body brought up publicly to Washington city and exposed to the gaze of the mul titude, that it might be identified? It. may be that he is dead; but there is a mystery and a most inexplicable m stery to my mind about the whole affair. e may come back some of these days and murder somebody else. [Lau hter.] I nferely got up to make this suggestion. I supposed that some gentleman was in possession of facts going to shfly that Booth was identified. Identify Booth, and these men oughtto have their reward, but I doubt whether this man Baker ought to have anything. I believe he was a much bigger villain than any man he was pursuing. I do not doubt that at all; and I believe he is just such a man as to get up now a story of the capture of Booth when Booth had not been overtaken at all. [Laughter.] If gentlemen will refer me to where I can get a narrative of facts to prove the identity of Booth, I will at my leisure read it with much interest. I want to be assured of the facts, not with a view to vote on this bill but with a view to the history of the transaction. I do not see why, if Booth was in the barn, he should have been shot. He could have been capturedjust as well alive as dead. It would have been much more satisfactory to have brought him up here alive and to have inquired of him to reveal the whole transaction, to have implicated all who were guilty and to have exeulpated all who were innocent. I do not see any reason why the matter had not taken that course. Bring his body up, carry it to the City Hall, expose it there to public gaze, let all who had seen him playing, all who associated with him on the stage or in the green room or at the taverns and other public places have had access to his body to have identified it. That was the way, where $100,000 was offered as a reward for capturing the man. I am certain [was as innocent of that murder as the child that is yet unborn; but I should have disliked to have $100,000 offered for me as an accomplice in that murder; it would have caused me to be hung or shot just as certain as fate. [LaMurg.hteeOn‘i]