Mr. SH RMA. I did not hear it. Then I will state further to the Senate that I show little feeling about this matter, chiefly from what occurred here on Thursday. I represented a bill which was reported from the ComFinance. I had no interest in it. It was a bill prepared at the Treasury Dept, and came to us in the ordinary course of business, and was reported by the committee without the assent of the chairman. That bill, standing before the Senate, has just as good a right to be heard as if it had the assent of the chairman of the committee; and yet, when I endeavored to bring it up on Thursday, he treated it in a very discourteous and impropermanner. It was ate in the day, and perhaps 4, he was fatigued, and I was not disposed to hold the Senator to a very rigid account; but when I read over the debate which occurred in the Senate then, it seems to me now that he must perceive that the whole of that debate on his art was discourteous, unkind, and unchar itable to the committee of which he is a member. When a bill was reported from that committee by me as representing a majority I considered that it had just the same right in the Senate precisely, and should receive the same consideration, as if it had obtained the consent of the chairman, and that it was not necessary to have his consent in order to have it reported. But he announced when the bill was reported much to my surprise, that he would not only vote a inst it and oppose it, as he had a perfect right to do, but that he would not allow it to be taken up if he could help it, or words to that effect. When I endeavored to get it up on Thursday he showed a great deal of feeling against it. I know the Senate will hear me witness that in our relations to each other, and in regard to the business of the Senate, I have generally deferred to the wishes of the chairman of the ComFinance; but when he endeavors to set 11 his opinion and his wish against the order O business reported from the ComFinance, I thinkhe ought to give to the decision of the committee the same consideration that the members of the committee usually give to his motions when he makes them. For this reason on Thursday, for the 1st time, I believe, I resisted the taking up of a bill reported by him; and I did it only because I understood his purpose to be to oppose the bill I reported by ircction of the committee; an unreasonable opposition, an opposition that was extraordinary in its character, and urged with a good deal of heat. Now the Senator statesareason fordesiring delay. If he had our municated it to me I would not have antagonized with his bill. He new states that he desires information from the Treasury Dept. If he really desires that information and, a8 a matter of course, what he says is conclusive on that point l do not wish to urge this bill against his wish to acquire that information. After the fortification bill is disposed of I may desire to call up the bill for the purpose tomor row of presenting my views to the Senate on the subject, and then if the Senator desires delay for the purpose of obtaininginformation from the Treasury Dept I will not object. As I stated on a former occasion, the bill in my charge is one of great public importance, intended to reduce the interest on 1:50 public debt, carrying out perhaps a favorite idea with me, that we should, not in time of peace present to the world the spectacle of paying a higher rate ofinterest on our public securities than any Christian nation of these times, and oin into the markets of the world with our on s at a lower rate for gold than any nation of Christendom, I believe. It was to enforce this view, to save if I could, this undue amount of interest, that Ipresented this bill and urged it on the consideration of the Senate. I will no longer urge it at present, after the declaration of the Senfrom Maine that he desires information; and as the reconstruction nes fion is postponed until Wednesday, Iwil not now resist the taking up of the fortification bill, but I shall ask the indulgence of the Senate to take up the funding bill tomorrow, so that I may be able to present my views upon it.