Mr. SHELLABARGER. I ask the indul nce of the House to make a brief statement. the matter of the services of Colonel Sander son came to my personal knowledge especially and peculiarly on account of the fact that his widow was a resident of my district. The general character of those services is known to the entire country. Their iiicstimable value has been fully recognized and appreciated by the conntry.‘ Every loyal citizen who has read the report of Judge Holt, which is founded mainly upon that singularly exhaustive and laborious report of Co onel Sanderson, knows the national value and character of those services. Now, th statement that I desire to make of what has pecially come to my own knowl edge is this, that the services, in their nature were: in the 1st place, of a kind that did not in the main appertain to the duties of the office that he held. Although they were akin to those duties, yet the greatest part of them were not such as came within the oliicial ur view of his office. His services were of a c ar ‘acter that could not be dele ated to others, being strictly secret and conli ential; and the slightest whisper in regard to them to another would have been utterly fatal to the cause of the Government. Hence they had to bedischarged by this singularly faithful officer or not discharged at all. Vhile he was alive and in the discharge of these duties he was admonished again and again that he was discharging them at the bazard of his life. His reply was, “My life shall be sacrificed if the interests of my Government demand it. These duties cannot be del egated, they mustbe ne forward with.” And he went forward with them and let me say here in the face of the House, that his services were eminently valuable in saving the government. They were of national importance. They resulted in the exposure of awi e spread and universal conspiracy. He left a widow and children in indigent circumstances: and now we ask that this widow and children of one who deliberatelylaid down his life that the Govern ‘ment might live shall have the small allowance proposed by this measure. I do hope the House will permit the bill to pass.