Mr. DAWES. I do not think Iwill yield any more now. I have but few words more to say on this matter, supposing it to be of that importance which the sitting member has considered it to be, inasmuch as he has put it as the basis of his argument for his right to retain his sent—has at it in the very forefront of his argument. ow, suppose it to be true that very able members of this committee, in the time they had to examine this case before they expressed an opinion, not having an opportunity to put the figures together, fell into the error in the computation of supposin that the rejection of certain votes would not change the result; and then, after examining the votes again, they found they had been mistaken, and that it would change the result. Is it an thing in the view of fairminded members of this House that these members of the committee fairly and frankly corrected the mis— take into which they had fallen. Has the sit ting member nothing firmer upon which to rest his claim to a seat in this House than the fact that 2 or 3 members of this committee, in adding up the figures on the 1st examination did not find that it would change the result, when in point of fact it would. He seems to think that if he can make out that fact. he has substantiated his right to the seat. The gentleman seems to be somewhat in the same position as his own inspector of elections. This in spector found his powers of arithmetic so oor that he could not count within 20 of the number of votes that had been cast for the contestant, and by reason of the consequent excitement in the town he was compeled to make some explanation; and he came out in a written statement under his own hand that the ballot box had been tampered with—iii his absence, as he says; yet when the contest came off and his deposition was taken by the contestant, this ins ector said that the fact that the ballot box h been tampered with did not make any im ression upon his mind. So the fact that the liallot boxes in 4 of these preciuts were, if there is any truth in the testimony. opened in the absence of the judges of the election and tampered with to an extent that no man can tell, seems to make no impression upon the mind of the sitting member; he regards it as alto ther unimportant, provided he can satisfy the House and the country that certain members of the ComElections, when they 1st closed the argument in this case, failed to notice the fact that throwing out the vote of one of these precints, confessed to have been so tam ered with, would change the result. The sitting member, in his argument, has not given his attention for one moment to the fact that, if on reject the return of Hamilton township an give the contestant fie benefit of the corrections proved by him in the other townships, the contestant, and not the sitting member, is elected. This stands out as plainly as arithmetic can show it. The only difference between myself and the other me ibers of the committee at the time referred to iy the sitting member was, that I hap cued to have added up the figures while they ad not. When I explained the matter to the other members of the committee, stating the reasons for my vote, the whole committee understood the matter at once.