Mr. HOWARD. Mr. President, in the remarks made by the honorable Senfrom Maryland, he made allusion to the case of JeffersonDavis, now in confinement in Fortress Monroe; and, according to him, the Government of the U.S., or some branch or officer of it, has been guilty of flagrant neglect and injustice in omitting to bring that prisoner to. I do not know upon whom the honorable gentleman seeks to cast the blame of this long detention of Davis without a trial. What we know about the facts, however, is this: that upon the assassination of President Lincoln, on the 14th of April, 1865, a proclamation was issued by the present incumbent of the Presidential chair offering large rewards for those who had participated in that crime, and among other accomplices naming JeffersonDavis, for whose a the President offered the sum of $100,000. Before his seizure, and before any notice of this offer came to o the military who arrested Davis, that po had seized im, and Colonel Pritchard, of my own State, a very gallant and meritorious officer, had the honor of being his captor and of taking him from the State of Georgia to Fortress Monroe, under the orders of the War Dept. The SecyWar, in a communication to this job. a year ago, informed the Senate that Davis had been captured and was then held as a prisoner of war, and also that he was held responsible under the proclamation of President Johnson offering a reward for his apprehension as one of the parties engaged in the assassination of President Lincoln; and he has been held in confinement from that time to this, 1st in his capacity of a prisoner of war, and 2nd ly as being subject to the charge of participating in that atrocious murder. I am told, but I do not know except from public rumor what the fact is, that an indictment has been found against Davis in this District charging him with treason against the U.S., and that another indictinent has been found against him in the district of Virginia charging him with the same offense; but 5 mofheard that he has been indicted for a criminal connection with the assassination of Mr. Lincoln. If he has been the fact is not within my knowledge; but that he has been held in custody on these joint charges from the time of his capture to the present time is beyond all doubt. The honorable Senator did not see fit to allude to the fact that Davis stands charged with a participation in the murder. Other accomplices in that most heine us and flagrant crime have been brought to trial before a military commission and after undergoing a most thorough trial at the hands of a very intelligent military commission were found guilty and by the order of President Johnson were executed; and it seems for more than a year past efforts have been made by the Secretary offs and other employees of the Government to apprehend another accomplice in that great crime John H. Surratt, who has lately been arres in the far off and ancient country of Egypt, among the pyramids, and is in process of being brought to the U.S. Does the honorable Senfrom Maryland look upon it as cause of complaint that Davis has been detained in custody with a view to hold him to his responsibility as a murderer; as one of the slayers of Lincoln'? If it shall turn out upon further and future investigation that he is justly amen able to the law for that murder, can the honorable Senator reproach his own Government with detaining that high prisoner for the length of time necessary to arrive at the truth of the matter? Who then, sir, is to blame for the non-trial of Davis’ He is indicted for treason in Rich mond. The President has appointed a prose cuting attorney for the district where that indictment is pending whose duty it was and is without delay to take out a proper warrant for his arrest and to bring him to trial for that crime, and yet we have never heard of any effort being made to bring him before the court. Sir, he might have been tried in almost any other place in the U.S. legally and constitution ally for the crime of treason. I hardly think the honorable Senfrom Maryland will hold that JeffersonDavis, the president of the confederate States, the commander in chief of all the armies and navies belonging to the confederate States during the war, has not by the very position he held made himself amenable for the crime of treason in any State or district of the U.S. within which any overtact of war was perpetrated during the rebellion.