Mr. GARFIELD. I have asked the gentleman to give me 2 or 3 minutes in order that I may modify the resolution which I presented yesterday. Before stating the modificationI wish to thank my colleague from Ohio l[Mr. SHELLABARGEK] for baring his sword and etting us see the keen edge with which be proposes to cut. I wish to sav that in the propositions he has advanced am more stron ly convinced than before of the necessity for the passe e of the resolution which I have submitte. He says if it is admitted the registry was illegal it would notinvnlidate the election, but it would invalidate the primafaciie evidence of the correctness of the return and would throw the burden of proofupon the party who claimed the election as illegal. That is his proposition and that is the giavamen of his argument. I will meet his proposition by the report of the committee. They say:. “The committeeare. however, of the opinion that it wnse ompetontforeithereontestantorsittinrz member to prove the castingFof legal votesat this poll. even Without a remster. Now, it is precisely that thing which both the gentleman in his argument and the committee in their report declare it is a properthing to do that we ask them to go forward and do for the reasons which I will now state. All parties admit that those persons who were reistered in the old 12th district, and now be ong to the present 15th district, were legally registered voters and have a legal right to vote, and those persons constitute a very large proportion of the voters or the alleged voters in the 15th district. Now, by the report of the committee we are asked to t now out the whole district, a large number of whose voters are by all parties agreed on a former occasion to have been legally registered. We now ask the committee to go further into the question, and allow the contestantand the sitting member to make proof of how many there were in that precinct that were really legally entitled to vote. I ask now for the reading of my resolutions, and then I will leave the case.