Mr. TROWBRIDGE. I move to amend by striking out the word “five.” I do so for the purpose of saying a few words in reference to what has been said here about the investigation before the ComAg in regard to the conduct of the present ComrAg. Charges have been made here today by the Gentfrom Ver mont, [Mr. MoRRILL, the chairman of the ComWays&Means, who appealed to the chairman of the ComAg [Mr. Bidwell] to state whether those charges were not substantiated by the testimony before the committee. Now, I desire to say, as the chairman of the ComAg, that he was in a very decided minority upon that committee in the opinion which he expressed before this House; I think he was in a minority of one on that committee in that respect. Those charges were considered by the entire committee, with the exception of its chairman, as entirely unsustained by the proof submitted to the committee. And I desire to say further to the Gentfrom Ohio, [Mr. SchoNck, ] who has just spoken, that in my opinion, and, I believe, in the opinion of the ComAg, those charges were manufactured and trumped up by men who had been turned out of that Dept in order to produce the very result which he says he would deprecate; that is, the appointment of the other gentleman who has been named here, the late Commissioner of the census, to the position of head of the Bureau of Agriculture. I believe all the members of the ComAg, with the exception of the chairman, [Mr. Bidwell, ] and possibly one other member of the committee, were convinced that those charges were unsustained, that they were malicious and unfounded, and were instigated by feelings of disappointment on account of being removed from office, and perhaps from a hope that they would result in the change indicated by the Gentfrom Ohio, [Mr. SpALDING.] So much in regard to these charges. If gentlemen desire to bring this matter before the House, I call upon them now to bring for ward their facts, and not merely refer to the various rumors which have been trumped up and published all over the country in order to influence public opinion. It was in evidence before the committee that the societies to which my friendfrom Ohio [Mr. Schexck] has referred were influenced by emanations sent out from this city, with the expectation and with the request that these charges should be brought forward by them. In relation to the little Fam.phlet from which the gentleman has read, not recollect that the man whose name is attacbed to it, was before the committee, or, if he was, what the nature of his testimony was; nor do I know anything about his having been removed from office.