Mr. LeBlOND. That, Mr. Speaker, is in understanding of the action of that committee and I say now that I have no recollection of ever bein counseled by any member of the committee in reference to the compromise measure now pending. If I have been spoken to it was outside of the committee room and it has escaped my recollection. The Gentfrom Connecti cut [Miz Bunnnuoss] will remember whether he or any other member of the committee ever spoke to me on the subject. I have been from the beginning after full examination in favor of the proposition that the committee reported and no other, and I am so yet. Illdr. BRANDEGEE. Now, Mr. Speaker, this matter has narrowed down to a result to which I think it had arrived before this personal discussion arose, and proves the truth of what I started out with asserting, that these questions of the action of the committee, resulting ultimate] in personal controversies, have but very litt e to o with the subject under consideration, and generally, to use a ver expressive but common phrase, come out o the same hole at which they went in. It seems to be agreed now, precisely as I have stated over and over again on this floor, and as the House will hear me witness that l have stated, that the ComNavAffrs authorized the Gentfrom Pennsylvania [Mr. KELLEY] to report this bill and no other. I have so stated, and so I think the House under stood me. I have never been authorized, and have not claimed to have been authorized, to report from the committee any bill whatsoever. The Gentfrom Pennsylvania alone was authorized to report a bill, and he has done so. But after that report was made. upon private consultation with members of the committee on this floor, and not as a committee in session, I inferred that a majority of the committee were in favor of my proposition, but not as the action of the committee formally. That i have distinctly asserted before. When the question came up here they thought that my proposition was the best for the country niid for this special purpose which we are engaged today in debating. Now, sir, with reference to what the Gentfrom Pennsylvania asserted with regard to the action of the Gentfrom Wisconsin, [Mr. Et.nnmot:] and the Gentfrom Ohio, [ML Lt; BLOSD] I do not recollect having any conversation with the Gentfrom, Ohio, but I distinctly remember a conversation with the Gentfrom Wisconsin, and unless I am greatly in error he did not assent to my proposition. And so I understood the Gentfrom Pennsylvania to assert that when he applied to the Gentfrom Wisconsin he was in favor of the original bill and against my substitute, and has been so from the beginning.