Mr. CHANLER. I wish to call attention to the further fact that in the list of yeas&nays, as contained in the paper from which the Clerk has read, my name is omitted. Now, sir, I do not wish to be considered as having made any mistake. I voted on due consideration and with a fixed determination. I voted for the purpose of bringing before this body a full statement of the facts relative to the charges made against the 1st Magistrate of the country. I wish to be understood here and everywhere as being neither the friend nor the foe of that Chief Magistrate. As a representative of the people, I feel that when there are preferred in this House charges of the importance of those presented by the gentleman Ohio [Mr. AsHLEY] against the POTUS, it is the duty of each member here to favor and insist upon a full investigation. Even if I were the champion of the Chief Magistrate of the nation I should have insisted upon an examination as a matter concerning his honor. When suspicions rest upon him, when grave charges are urged against him, how can his fitness and capacity for the position which he holds be demon strated except by the constitutional method of examination? That method being proposed here, I am willing to accept it as proposed in good faith. I have no political sympathy with the gentleman who introduced that resolution; but I assert that the vote given by me on that occasion was no mistake. It was the result of may ture judgment. I acted upon what I deem to be a very sound principle. Whether the POTUS be innocent or guilty of the crimes and high misdemeanors charged upon him in the resolution is a question for determination in the future; and the grand jury of the nation, when it refuses to initiate an indictment against a person subjected to such charges, does not, in my opinion, fulfill its duty. Without regard to political combi nations or partisan purposes, I stand here ready to initiate an examination into the conduct of any officer of the Government who may be charged in good faith with impeachable offenses. I am ready to push the investigation to the highest tribunal we recognize here to punish crimes and high misdemeanors, such as are charged against the President. Now, sir, I desire that other members of this House may not be subjected in the future to such mistakes as that of which I have in the present case been the victim. My object, in hothis question of privilege, as I believe it to be, has been to bring the matter to the knowledge of the House and elicit an in vestigation. I desired to obtain from the presiding Officer of the House a statement of the exact position in which the Associated Press, by their reporters, stand here. I therefore move that the reporters for the Associated Press, admitted to seats on this floor, be under the same rules and regulations as the reporters for the Globe; that all questions of privilege arising in regard to the alteration of votes made in the records of the Associated Press be under the same rule as that which regulates reports in the Globe.