Mr. DAVIS. The honorable Senfrom California an s there is a difference betwcep myself and other Senators. There is; and that difference is mainly that in this war and in all of its operations I have stood steadily by the constitution of my counQy. I wanted the policy of the Government in conducting the war to.be shaped by the Constitution; and I have always voted and I always will vote against all meals ures that are infractions of the Constitution. The honorable Senator says 1 have spoken enough to make a small volume upon the Military administration of Kentucky. I assure the honorable Senator that I have not spoken one 10th of the truth, and of the enormous truth in regard to the military administration of Kentucky; and if his magnanimity and his consciousness of personal and party strength he would give me a fair committee, of which I do not desire to be a member, to investigate the military administration of Kentucky, if I do not by the most irrefragable proof and by the judgment of impartial men establish the conclusion that the amount and the enormity of maladministration in that State exceeds ten fold everything that I have charged, I shall then withdraw the charges. Now, Mr. President, I will advert to a single item of military maladminiltration in that State to which the honorable Senator has referred. There are sold annually in the State of Kentucky either to the Cincinnati or Louisville markets about 500,000 fat ho During the winter before last the market price at Cincinnati was ruling from 12 to 14 dollars, according to quality. The military authorities got together and made regulations that no hog should be driven or exported out of the State; that every owner of hogs should sell them at from 7 and a half to 8 dollars to the military agents; if they refused to sell they would go to their pens, pull down their pens, and drive the hogs to a slaughter house which they had opened for the purpose of killing all the hogs of the State, and they made orders prohibiting all other slaughter houses from operating and prohibiting all transportation of hogs either to Louisville or Cincinnati. These monopolizers by arbitrary military power, by military maladministration, whicltthe onor able Senfrom California not only excuses but justifies, made a swindling arrangement, based upon force and militar power, by which they would rob the feeders of the he of that State of 1/2 of the proceeds of those hogs in market. This abuse was complained of to the then President, and he directed it to be corrected but before it was corrected those who engaged in it had plundered the farmers and feeders of Kentucky of several 100,000 dollars. I am not going to refer to any other instance of military maludministmtion. I have given aspecimen of it, and it is but oneof many speci. mens. The honorable Senfrom California dare not I defy him, and I challenge him and those who are associated with him on this floor to raise a fair and impartial committee to investigate the military maladministration in Kentucky. It would disclose iniquity, enor mity, oppression, and crime enough to damn any politicul party that ever ha existence. But, sir, I she I say no more.