Mr. CONKLING. Mr. Speaker; I shall understand which is in own h writing; and I slizlll be very frank and very earless in stating all the particulars about this matter. If the gentleman will only be quiet he will find that he will lose nothing of the truthdiy waiting to hear my statement. V This the gentleman says is in my own hand wr"itIing, as it is: say to him further that I dreamtotako no adv ntage, such usbeattriut of the ivilegesof this 9 ace, or of the absenceof 3cm“ Er." I believe that is not the alteration compla“ined of. On the contrary, I am ready to uvowwhat I have here declared anywhere." v Not “elsewhere, ” but “an where.” I believe that not much is lost by but variation. “I have stated facts for which I am willing to he held responsibleat all times and places." The alteration, complained of, as I understand, is thatinstlead of avowing a willingness to be held responsible here or elsewhere, which he says the phrase was, I say, “ I am willing to be held responsible at all times and places. Well, sir, i there is any diminution of resonsibilityhere; if, by this alteration, making the declaration cover all space and all time, there has been avoided any responsibility which was assumed by sa ng “here or elsewhere, ” then I admit that am subject to the censure of gentlemen whose position and c acter are sun as to entitle them to give instruction upon such questions. Now, the words stricken out, in lieu of which those words are inserted, appear thus in the reporters notes: “I am responsible, notoniy 1lersbutehcw re.for what havesaid and what I will say of the rovost Marshal General." That I understand to be the alteration complained of. The notes Were, “I am responsible not only here but elsewhere;” while, in making the correction I have said, “I am willing to be held responsible at all times and places. Mr. Speaker, I stand by! that alteration. I will not undertake to say whether it is more or less precise than the original utterance. I will under take to say, and I submit it to every gentleman in this House, that not only is there no alteration here which puts the Gentfrom Maine in any different position from that which he occupies, but there is no alteration by which I reieve myself from any responsibility to any human being which in the original utterance I took., Now, sir, having said this much, I conclude by saying that I throw back to the gentleman any sort of imputation which he seeks to cast upon me; and I say to him that the time will him to dispense to me any information or instruction With regard to those rules which ought to vern the conduct of gentlemen.