Mr. DAWES. Now, sir, I made no use of the gentlemans remarks in the way in which they have been used by the Gentfrom Indiana, [Mr. VOORHEES] but I was vindica ting the majority of this House as well as the committee from any such insinuation. It was most unkind on the part of the Gentfrom Indiana to make it against the chairman of this committee with whom he has served 4 years on the committee, and whom he has seen time and again, in his efforts to maintain the rights of a political opponent in this House, facts of the case have been called for, I must 3 1 voted down by his own party friends. It was unkind to make the insinuation against the old members of the committee, and certainly it was eqnall untrue as to the new ones. But least of all has he a right to make it, who knotvs the facts here, who knows that, time and again, whether right or wron, the chairman of this committee has strugglei in this House against political friends and in support of what he thought was the right of political opponents. I may have been wrong, and the majority of the dense has often thought I was wrong, and has so voted; but he at least who is res ou sible for this report should not be charge by a colleague who has helped to make them with having brought in a report here actuated by the motive of giving a seat to a political friend that properly belongs to a political opponent. But I was remarking, before this digression, upon the fact that there was one township confessed by the judges themselves to have had its ballot boxes invaded and broken up in their absence. They were compelled to confess it, and yet the sitting member takes no notice of the fact in his argument, being as indifferent as his own inspector tried to be when he was at upon the stand and under oath about it. ct me read what the inspector was compelled to sign 8 days after the election by the public sentiment in the town in which he lived. Here is a " card, dated October 19, 1864: We the undersignedJudges and clerks of the election heldntthe courthousein Sullivan on the l lthda! of October,1864,in view of the fraud! alleged to have been perpetrated, and in justice to ourselves,avail ourselvesof this the 1st opportunity offeredto make th"e following statement: Of the fraudschargedwe know nothing. We saw no not of impropriety by any member ot the board while in session; but that we are satisfiedin our own minds that such chargesare not Withoutfoundation." Whether these men really knew they were signing a paper charging themselves with fraud at some other time when they were in session I will not say; but they do. “And we havesuchopinion upon the following circumstance.to which we are willing at any and all timestoboqualified: attheadjournment of the board for supper. which was about dusk, wc hflll counted out betwccn15 and 20 tickets, which were strung on “a string pre ared for that pur 050. The string of tickets was p needin the ballotox on top of the uncounted tickets. The polhbooks and tally— nperswere then placedon top of the tickets,the bo! ocked and seton a table in one corner of the room." There were 3 or 400 uncounted tickets at. the bottom. Then they went out and left things in that condition. “ When the board met,after supper,the ballot box was unlocked in our resencoby the inspector. the tally papers and pollooks taken out, but thestring of counted tickets could not be soon.” It further appears that nobody else could unlock the bal ot box, although the inspector gave the key to somebody else. “The inspector turned to the table in the corner of the room to searchfor it and while thus engagedwe found the string) of tickets in the ballot box completely covered 5 ged uncounted tickets, We are satis that the strin of tickets could not have not to the bottomof the allot box Wli l]011tht e samebem openedin our absence and the tickets handled. "Respectfully submitted. PORTER BURhS JAMES A. BEARD DANIEL udnu LANGDON BENJAMIN HAVENS. Clerks." Now, the inspector adds to this, as follows: October19,1864. Ihereby certify that I believe the above statement to be correct. When the box was opened after supper, I took out the poll books and tally papers. but could not find the string of tickets. Supposing they had been left out, I turned to look for them; meantimethey were found in the box. It is evident that theyweremovedwhile the board was adiournod foitinggcctiiilly. w. c. GRIFFITH. Inspector. Now, it is true that they called him on to the stand sometime afterwards, when the seat was contested, and then he tapered off; it did not make any impression on him then any more than upon the sitting member. Now, upon this hangs the whole question of the right of the sitting member to a seat. It did not occur to some of the members of the committee upon 1st considging the matte“ but upon this hallotbox and correcting the other returns hangs the whole question of the sitting members. right to the seat. He swears that he “ Saw nothing to createany suspicion that the bal lotboxwas tampered“llll. us the ballots and names of votersbalanced. some fewdaysafter the election. giejudges and clerksof said election called my atten on "— What to? Not to the fact which they knew on the day of election, that the ballot box had been opened by somebody; they did not call his attention to that, which they knew on the day of election; but they called his attention “to the fears entertained by them of frauds being practiced.” He had no alarm about anything but that. He carried the key of the ballotbox in his pocket, and had given the judge another key, although the law says that he shall give the judge the key of the box. The judge, however, went off with another key and left him with the key of the ballot box and the box too. He goes on to say: “Their ounds of alarm were. as stated by them. that Mr. nird found the strung tickets under the unstrung tickets.” and then he goes on to relate it as he did before. It did not seem to alarm him any more than it has the sitting member. Now, I submit that with all the solemn efiort of thesitting member toimprossupon the House, not only that he is amartyrjsi his political principle, but a! resigned as any of the martyrs in Foxs Book of Martyrs