Mr. CONKLING. I ask merely to see the sheet. Before looking at it or making any remarks upon iIt wish to say that I do know, what the member from Maine announces as if it were new to somebody or especially appreciated 1: lass. himself, that no member of this House has a right by any alterations, even of his own remarks, in any respect to affect the rights or the pgsition of any other member with whom he s had a discussion, whether in the way of controversy or not and I hope that it is unnecessary or me toassure an gentleman with whom Iain acquainted that am as incapable as the Gentfrom Maine [Ma Bums] pretendsto be, of doing anything in violation of the rule which state. I deny entirely, speaking at a venture of all these sheets which are here and I challenge a refutation of what I say I deny that in any respect or particular have these notesbeen be altered by me as to chan at all the position of any gentleman in this House, whether he took art with me in the debate or not and I a rm speakin of this sheet which I will look at particular y in a moment; and speaking of every other sheet upon which the debate of yesterday was reportc; and speaking also of every other sheet of Globe reports that ever came into my hands that I have made no alterations, none whatever, except those alterations which all gentlemen make, reecting the surplusage and diffusive style which will always enter, more or less, into extemporaneous speaking, so as to prune down a little, into feWer Words, the sense which was exressed. n yesterday there was properl before this House the public administration aoiy public 05 cer. It was asuitable theme for discussion. At all events, whether it was so or not was a question addressed to every gentleman for himself. I commented upon the publicadministration of this public officer and his subordinates; Ispbke of facts of which I had the right to speak, because I had investigated them, and I thought I knew whereof I affirmed. The member from Maine, [Mr. BLAINI] with frivolous impertinenco, put into the debate 8n imputation upon my motives; and attributed to me dishonorable personal resentment. suppose what he said had been true; what had that to do with the matter which we were discussing? What light did an imputation cast upon me throw upon the question whether the Bureau of the Provost Marshal General ought to be petrified forever in the military system of this country I Not only did he make a statement, which I repeat was frivolously impertinent and personal to me, but he made a statement in which he was mistaken. He added, in substance, that I traduced this officer in his absence, and that I did it here; thereby meaning to at upon me the further imputation that skulking behind the constitutional privileges of debate I was defaming an absent man. In mswer to that I said that I had no such intention; that I stated what I believed; that I was ready to state it here or elsewhere, and to be resonsible for it, not only here but any where e se. The gentleman says those are technical words. I did not know that they were technical words. I have heard them used here repeatedly. I heard them used the other day by a gentleman to whom I will not refer more cially; he said, in the precise phrase which I did not use on yesterday, that he would be res nsible, not only here but elsewhere. What said was that I was read to stand by the statement I made; not to s elter myself behind the privileges of debate, but to be responsible to any person who should be agrieved, everywhere and whenever he might see fit to raise the question. Now, it was rather a cheap mode of clawing 08 from an ungentlemanly ge in the de bate for the member from 9 to rise here and pretend to this House that he understood I meant to talk in the language of the duelist or to intimate in any way that I sought apersonal controversy with him. I beg to assure him that my observation of him, if nothing else, would remove for distant from me the impression that in that way or in any other wayit Was worth while to atte t to get out of him any such controversy as t. Now, sir, I made no such intimation. I had no such intention. I made no such statement. But on the contrary, I said what I will proceed now to read as it stood originally upon this paper; and then I will state to the House the alteration which has been made; and I will submit whetheriwill be comelled tosit at the feet of the Gentfrom sine and derive from him instruction asto what is gentlemanly and honorable. Now, this sheet, which is handed to me without what precedes it, omnience s in the middle of a sentence. I won d like to have the commencement of the sentence.