Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, there is no one in this House more thankful than I am fo the courtesy which has been extended to me by both sides in being heard during this session. Nor do I offer these resolutions with an purpose of frittering away the time of the House. I offer them particularly for the purpose of de fining my position at least, if not the position of others on the 3rd resolution of the series and I, was not a little surprised on last Monday to find the 2nding of the call for the previous question bein refused, not only on all but on either one of the pending resolutions. It cannot be that any honorable member, either upon the Republican or Democratic side of the House, will disagree with one single word laid down in the 1st of the resolutions contained in this series. Itake it for nted that the members upon both sides of teHouse, without one dissenting voice, will record themselves fearlessly and with pleasure in favor of the 2 resolutions contained in this series, because I have under stood it to be one of the principal axioms of the parties on both sides of the House to discountenance, to the utmost extent, any, as sumption for the payment of the rebel debt, either of any of the rebel States, or of the socalled confederate government of the insurgent States, by the Federal Government of the U.S. While they have persistently inisted, from the 1st time that these securities were issued, that there should be no repudiation of the Federal debt, they certainly can, have no hesituncy now in unanimously votin for the 2nd resolution in this series, which merely gives it as the expression of this House that the Federal Government will not repudiate the Federal debt one single farthing, and that the lighted faith of the Government shall be sacre l kept. While I have always been in favor of payin every single farthing of this Federal debt, an using the resources of the people of this country to a every single dollar and every single cent oi, this debt, yet I have not forgotten that elementary principle which lies at the very foundation o this government, upon which the principles of equality and justice are founded, that ever man in this country, be he rich or poor, 5 onld be taxed according to the protection he receives from the Government, and the more property he has the more protection he needs. The man who would before the war propose that $3,000,000,000 of money in the hands of aristocratic owners should be exempt from taxation, would have been scouted and have received no consideration from the people. He would have been considered as one who was inimical to the best interests of the country, and to the working and toiling millions of the land. While I am opposed to repudiation, and will oppose it with all my power and with the in fluence of my vote, on all and every occasion, not only now but hereafter, yet I wil, as a Representative of the peoile, as a man who has the best interests of the people at heart. not only now but hereafter, so long as I am a member of this body, stand here and proclaim that grand doctrine which our fathers proclaimed when they rebelled against the power of Eur land, thatequal taxation is ust; thatit should be extends to all classes alike.