Mr. GARFIELD. No, I did not construe what the gentleman said as a reflection upon the Secretary, but I did say that the very proposition itself, which he proposes to put into this bill, will be a reflection upon ever SecyTreasury who has occupied that high position since the war began. T am unwilling, sir. that my vote shall help to cast any such censure on any SecyTreasury merely for the exercise of his taste in making up the figures and faces on the paper money. I am well aware that the Gentlemen who have spoken on this subject intend no disrespect to any SecyTreasury. They have directed their shafts against another person, the man who has been the special object of hatred and abuse from certain quarters for the last 2 years, and whose face on the 5 cent scrip has been the occasion of the amendment and these vehement speeches. Sir. I take pleasure in saying a word for an abused man, who is not here to answer his accusers; and I say it, too, remembering the declaration of an ancient philosopher, that people love to hear accusation better than defense. do not hesitate to declare it as my opinion that when the history of our financial struggles during the late war shall have been written when all passion and prejudice shall have die away; when the events of the ircsent shall be seen in the clear light of verita is history, this man, whose picture is now sneered at this man, so little known to fame, and so unavor ably spoken of among many members of this House, will stand out in that history as a man most remarkable for genius and ability, for having accomplished a work which will take its place among the wonders of mechanism and useful invention and for having saved to the Treasury, by his skill and fidelity, millions of money. Whatever people please to soy concerning S. M. Clark and his antecedents. he has done his country signal service; and, sir, I believe his merits will some day be recognized by the American people as they have been and still are by those who know what he has done and is stil doing in the public service.