Mr. FESSENDEN. Perhaps I ought to say a word in explanation on this subject. I have not theslightest personal objection to the reception of this paper if the Senate think it proper to receive it under the peculiar circumstances. of the case. I so pose, as it has been already. presented in the HoRep and argely printed there in connection with the report made by the majority, there can be no particular purpose in presenting it here except. to have the same number printed which was printed of the report itself; and if received b the Senate, I suppose that permission could not well be refused). To that I should have no objection. i should have much preferred, horrever, and that is one of the objections, that it had been presented at the time the reportitself was presented in order that they might have gone together. Perhaps my honorable friend may think there is a little vanity in my announcing my willingness that the 2 should be compared; but I be leave to say to him, I have such confidence In the fact that I was on the right side and he was on the wrong one, that I am sure, oven with his acknowledged ability, he could not make the worse a pear the better reason. In such a chse I should be willing to have them compared together. I made the proor explanation to the Senate at the time that reported the resolution. It was my intention to prepare a report to come in with the resolution. Perceiving that the labors of the committee were drawing to a point, I had made up my mind at once to commence the preparation of a repert, which I supposed Ison d be ordered to make, as chair. man of the committee; but on the very day that I proposed to do it and had collected some papers with a view to make a drawing of the report, I was seized, as the Senatewill remember, with disease which confined me to in room and made me unfit entirely for work until the very last day of the sessions of the commite tee on the subject of the resolution. I was then sent for; the members of the committee in sisted upon it that I should be present at that meeting if possible; and the very 1st day that I went out of my room I went to the committee room and staid there for 4 hours, the Senator will remember, although very feeble at that time, while the committee was coming to its conclusion. It Was then moved by some member of the committee that a report be pre? pared by the chairman. I stated that I had been sick, and it had been impossible for me to do it, and I had no report rea y, whereupon a motion was made that the chairman be directed to make it‘out at as early a day as possible.