Mr. ROGERS. I am coming to the point. Yesterday, as I stated, I went to the committee room and there found the papers in the possession of the reporter, who informed me that he had been spoken to or employed by the gentleman who was to make the majority report to make some notes from the evidence opium. I asked him to allow me to sit down and look at the testimony. He said his orders were peremptorily that I nor anybody else should see the evidence. I then went to the clerk of tl e committee and told him I would like to loo at the evidence. He refused to allow me to look atit. I then said I would go to the gentleman who was to make the majority report. Iwentto him. He satdown andgaveme an order to look at the papers, but not to take them out. In the mean time, for the of obtaining some minutes from which pucropuolsde, if I saw fit, present to the House a minority report, I employed a stenographer to come and talie down some points of the evidence that I wanted to refer to, as the honorable gentleman had also a stenogra ber. While I was taking them down the cler of the committee left the room and returned with the gentleman who immediately snatched up the papers from me and refused to allow me to read or look at them, or to allow the stenograplier to take down a single word. He took the papers and put them up in the tin box where they had been previously locked up. The ground the gentleman took was that he did not know who this stenographer was, and he was not willing to allow him to look at the papers. That may have been very proper. I am not prepared to say whether it was or not. At any rate the stenographer went away. I proposed before he went away that he should lie sworn that nothing should be divulged, but all should be kept secret; but the gentleman would listen to no proposals. I confess I thought he was a little excited, and I left the room. I hope, however, there is no feeling on his part, as there certainly is none on mine. Now, I presume the House will adjourn or take a recess soon. There is an immense mass of testimony, and I feel it my duty, where the lives of individuals are concerned, JeffersonDavis and others, that the truth should be known to the public in regard to that whole testimony. There are facts in the case that may not appear in the majority report, and I may deem it. my duty when I investigate the whole evidence to present my views. I want to arrive at a correct judgment so as to conscientiously discharge my duty. I am willing to go to the expense of playing a stenographer to take such parts of the testimon and evidence as I want. I want to have the stenog rapher sworn by any kind of oath that may be prescribed by the committee or the House. My object is, not to divulge anything. I have never been charged with divulging anything exec t some cross examinations which were decided by the committee to be irregular, and whichI supposed to be of no sort of importance. I made the proper explanation, and I believe the committee were satisfied with it. I presume the Speaker will say I have a right to investigate the testimony. How can I? I have not time, if I wait till the majority report is made at the close of the session, to ar rive at a correct judgment on that rent mass of testimony. I am willing to furnis a stenog rapher at my own expense, who shall be sworn and under the control of the House, or the House may furnish a stenographer to take down such parts of the testimony as I may want.