Mr. MARSHALL. I do not propose to discuss the merits of the question now before the House. It is in the hands of gentlemen who have studied it more thoroughly than I have, and are abler to do justice to the report of the committee, and I should not have said a word had it not been for a remark that I was very much surprised to hear fall from the lips of the gentleman who has just taken his seat, and that remark, I think, was unworthy of him and unworthy of his position as a member of this House. Mr. Speaker, I have listened here during a long session to a great many discourteous remarks made by gentlemen of the majority toward the minority on this floor. It has been the daily practice for gentlemen upon the other side of the House to sneer at the motives of gentlemen of the minority, and to speak of us as if we were not governed by the ordinary motives which actuate gentlemen and legislators acting upon their oaths and with all the responsibilities of their position resting upon them. It has been deemed a sufficient answer to anyarguments that mightbe made from this Iide of the House that they came from democrats, and the sneer “ secessionists, ” “copper heads, ” “traitors, ” “sympathizers with the rebellion, " and the like, have been deemed a conclusive and overwhelming answer to any or nments. ow, I wish to say right here that gentlemen who cannot discuss the principles of ameasure without attacking the motives and character of those who happen to disagree with them are like this. disceful to the country that great measures ca at be discussed here by gentlemen without impugning the motives and the character of gentlemen who happen to differ from those who are discussing those measures. When these general flings have been made against this side of the House, hoivever unjust or discourteous, I have not been disposed to mingle in the debates, or to attempt to reprove those ilty of conduct which I think disgraceful to the country. But I understood the Gentfrom Pennsylvania, [Mr. Lawn mom] whom I have regarded with great respect to say that the majority report in this case was made up by the concurrent votes of 2 gentlemen of the Democratic party, and that without their votes there would have been no majority in favor of the sitting member in this case, and that those gentlemen of the Democratic party would vote for a member of their own party without any regard whatever to thements of the case.