Mr. FESSENDEN. A central directory, which chooses to exercise this power. Sir, is this committee of 15 anything more than the servant of Congress? 1s any committee, either joint or specie., which is appointed, anything more than the mere servant of congress? Can any member of it, or the whole of it, set up its will for a single day or a single hour or a single moment against the will of the body which constituted it? We were appointed for especial purpose, to make inquiries, and report to Congress the result of ourinquiries; undp for what reason I What was the great reason? Simply that neither branch, acting without sufficient information, might take a course from which the other branch would difier, and thus bring about a collision between the 2 bodies which constitute the Congress. Under those circumstances, is it quite fair to designate the committee of 15 as a central directory, as a power assuming to judge and to decide questions which belong to the bodies which the committee represents? Is it quite fair to desig nate it as a central power sitting here with a view to get up the government of a few against lthe government of the many?I can understand the allusion in no otherwny; and if any gentleman can place a dilierent construction upon it, I should like to have him do so. Iain unwilling myself, individually, to rest under such an imputation. [have the honor to be one of that committee. I never understood myself as anything but the servant of Congress, or of the body which sent me there, to endeavor to obtain information and to come to a conclusion iuupon which the body might act understand ingly; and that we have not come to a conclusion yet is only a proof that the question is I much larger one than gentlemen might have supposed, and involves more consideration and more examination than might possibly have been apparent to those who looked only upon the surface and judged only from whatt cy could gather from common report. If the Executive—and I mean to speak of the President with respect, because I entertain for him respect—has an idea that the several points which hehas suggested are prelimina ries to the admission of Sens&Reps from these States, the question arises, who is to exercise that iower of judgment? Does it belong to us, if1 a Senator presents himself here, to ascertain in the 1st place if those conditions have been complied with on the part of these States, or does it belong to him? The honorable Senfrom Wisconsin [Mr. DOOIJTTLE undertakes to find fault with something that think he will find Idid not say. Probably he anticipated that I should so it.