Mr. LAWRENCE, of Pennsylvania. well, I will not undertake to say whether that is so or not. I voted with the committee myself, believing that they did not err in the matter; but I say now that I can figure for myself and am able to understand the facts that are presented in this case, until know that Mr. Fuller had a majority of the votes cast in this district. And there is not an honest man in the district, who can read and reflect, who does not believe it, and that there has been a great outrage perpetrated by this report. But how is it in regard to the committee? The Gentfrom Ohio, [Mr. SHELLABAR 01 13]the Gentfrom Pennsylvania, [Mr. SooriELD, the Gentfrom Vermont, [Mr. Bartram] and the Gentfrom Michigan, [Mr. Ursos] who has been called home by sickness, refused or neglected to sign this report. It is fair to infer, therefore, that they are against it. So, then, you have 4 members refusing to sign it and 3 in favor of it. In other words, you have 3 Union members of the committee agreeing with the Democrats that 16 or 20 soldiers shall be disfranchised in order to kee the sitting member in, and you have 4 pion members declariu that the contestant is entitled to the seat. i ow, I do not consider that that makes a very strong case. Admitting that it is ama'ority, itisamajority of only one, and of Democrats who vote on all occasions an under all circumstances that the gentleman of their party shall have the seat. Mr. Speaker, we have been anxious that our soldiers should vote. I myself helped to pass a law giving them the right to vote. But the supreme court, being on the Democratic side, set it aside. I afterward helped to amend the constitution. We passed it through at 2 sessions of the Legislature and submitted it to the people. And how did the Democrats vote upon that? The returns show that 105,000 in Pennsylvania voted against it. And if I am not mistaken, the very countyin which the gentleman [Mr. Dawson] lives gave a majority against that amendment. I do not believe there is a Democrat in Fayette county and they are about as strongly impregnated with southern feeling as any other that voted in favor of givin suffrage to the soldiers, unless it was some who had been in the Army. We labored hard to give the soldiers the right to vote, and we passed the constitutional amendment against the will of the Democrats. Then we said to the men in the field that no technicality in the manner or count should deprive them of their votes. We did not expect the men in the field, fighting the enemy in front with their bullets, and the enemy in the rear with their ballots, could sit down and organize a board of clerks and all the parapher nalia of an election as they could do at.home. Hence we provided that no informality in the law should deprive them of their votes. Now, my colleague [Mr. SCOFIELD] proved yesterday how this thing was done most conclusively. I do not say it was done unfairly. My friendfrom Massachusetts [Mr. Dawes] knows that no man holds him in higher regard than I do. But he is not infallible. I hold that the Gentfrom Ohio [Mr. SHELLABARGER] and my colleague [Mr. SCOFIELD] each have as clear a head as he has and they are both prepared to show to this House that if they agree to this report they disfranchise the soldiers. The committee make a lOng report, and they cover 2 pages of paper to prove that the votes of a single lot of soldiers, 7 in number, in company A, 155th regiment, ought not to be allowed.