Mr. HOWE. Mr. President, I protest. The honorable Senfrom Maryland has so many positive, always reliable sources in debate, that he of all men should be compelled to rest upon them; and I have a right to complain when, as in the present instance, he rises to repel a charge which has not been made against him and places his opponent in the attitude of making points entirely different from what he has made. Let me correct the honorable Senator so far as to say 1st, that I did not understand him at all as having arraigned the Government for inhumanity committed in the course of the war or in the prose cution of the war. I knew just as well as the Senator himself did that during all the terrible years he did sustain the Administration, did aid in the prosecution of the war, and I think it all the more marvelous and extraordinary because of that fact that he who did not agree that the rebellion was right, but who did affirm that the rebellion was a monster wrong which demanded the expenditure of all our treasure and of all our means to punish that wrong, and he who has seen the magnanimity with which the Government has treated these criminals since they have been in its power, should have stepped forward to prosecute the government. inhumanity practiced, not during the war, but since the war toward those crim inals who carried it on. And now, Mr. President, what pretext had the Senfrom Maryland for saying that I charged him with having forgotten the case of John Brown? I made no allusion to him in connection with the case of John Brown. I cited it for purposes of my own. I cited it because I thought it was pertinent to the line of remark that I was making; and in neither of these respects I do think the Senator found any warrant whatever for calling the attention of the Senate to any difference, actual or supposed, between the position on this floor of a Senfrom Wisconsin and a Senfrom Maryland. I thank my God that both these States have yet the right to send Senators here. I wish the State of Wisconsin were more ably represented than she is, but she is represented in accordance with the Constitution; she has sent just the men that she selected for that purpose. She consulted her own wishes, not the wishes of any other State. Maryland did the same. I do not think I shall ever be heard to taunt the State of Maryland with having sent here the honorable Senator who sits on the other side, and I hope that Senator never will again taunt the State of Wisconsin with having sent me here.