Mr. DAWES. I understand the difference full. hibw, my friendfrom Ohio [Mr. SPALDING] has a more singular way of doing thin than that. He says it is an unsafe procee in to establish the precedent of setting aside law iole poll, because there was ille l and fraudulent votes cast in the district or that would be putting the power in our hands to unseat any member. ell, and what is his remedy for that? He proposes to set aside all the polls. He says it would be most unprecedented, most unjust, most wicked to set aside this poll, although in his speech he agrees with the committee that it was fraudulent and illegal, and therefore void. But he says it gives us the power to unseat a member by setting aside just as many olls as we please, and then he propolsles as is remedy that we set aside all the o s. p Now, it is our duty to do something else; it is our duty to say, and to say now, which of these 2 men was elected, unless we believe in one of 2 thin s. We must believe, if we refuse to decide which of those 2 men was elected, either that the committee are fools, and cannot reproduce the conclusions which lie in the testimony, or that they are knaves and refuse to do so, one or the other. I ask nothing in behalf of the committee. I only ask this House not by any side blow to set aside the report of the committee; not to recommit the case to the committee for the purpose of taking more testimony, which will end in leaving the sitting member ere, for reasons I have already stated, unless they think the committee have not treated him fairly, and have not given him every opportunidty to try his caseas it ought to have been trie. I have no doubt the committee will, as well as they may, cheerfully perform any duty which is devolved upon them by the House. But I confess to a lack of strength and some feeling of discouragement, if all the labor which they have performed in this case is to be set aside and conSidered as naught. I believe it has been the honest endeavor of the committee to sift this case fully; and having done so, with all their knowledge of other cases and the principles therein involved, there has been left upon their minds aclearer conviction than ever rested upon them in other cases, that the lion est return left the majority of the votes in favor of Mr. Dodge and that is the reason why they have reported a resolution that the contestant should have this seat.