Mr. CHANLER. Mr. Speaker, what object lies behind the resolution of the Gentfrom Ohio [Mr. Sonuse u] it is impossible for me or this House to discern. What motive actuated myself in presenting that resolution I alone know; and for him to assume and to declare in the form of a resolution that the words which I have presented to this House constitute an insult to the House; for him to make that assertion puts the charge of offering the insultu on himself. If he feels the sting, let him anger. I am not called upon to retract one word, and not one word will I retract. What I meant I will not reveal, for the reason that the words of that resolution are so plain and simple that no politically honest man, who believes in the right of free speech and of free debate, and who respects the privileges of this House, will for one moment consider exceptionable, or fail to understand as having a general political meaning. If I did mean to insult this House it would be a presumption far beyond any merit that I have ever assumed to have. When the veto of the POTUS fell upon this House like a thunderbolt he may have insulted this House. He may be so charged by the partisans of those who moved to sustain the previous question and had he been a member of either body of Congress he would have been expelled for expressing the opinions contained in his veto, as he is now threatened with assassination, as he is new threatened with impeachment, and as he has to meet the hostility of the whole body of men organized as a majority on this floor. But that I should have the good fortune, through the mischievous malignity of any member of the House, by a resolution of censure. to be placed in a position of champion of the President for sustaining the policy of the Administration as displayed by the acts of the Executive, Iam too proud to feel for one moment regret. although utterly unworthy of the honor. meant not to thrust myself into a prominence so invidions, and into a position which I do not deem myself called upon to take, or capable to maintain. The responsibility of that position belongs to those who elected the Ohio Magistrate and if, because of the conscientioul discharge of his duty, he is assailed here by those who elected him, and defended here by those who had naught to do with his election, I cannot see the reason, logic, or political sequence in any form that will make a member reprehensible for risin in his seat and presentin a resolution as have, admitted by the Presiding officer of this House to be in order, and to be subject only to the action of the House. Sir, that any member should be held accountable and liable to censure for such action is a compliment, and as such I accept it. and, sir, what have been the precedents offered by that side of the House in the treatment of public opinion as expressed by the Opposition? What course has been pursued with regard to the humble few who claim the right on this floor of opposin eneroachments made by the majority upon the Constitution, as we honestly believe? Is there any language that can be found in Billingsgate or Hudibras, any low term of political reproach, any inde cent slang, any hateful anathema, that is not made use of toward the minority here day after day, and put upon the wings of the press and carried to every quarter of this country?, Sir, is this done by one who is spotless or free from the reproach which he would apply to the humblest member on this side? Who is insulted when a Representative on this side is branded as unworthy? Thatmember? No, sir. This House? No, sir; but the people the people whom we represent; the constituency for whose interestwe comchereand in whose behalf we speak and vote and if the people thatI represent. deem, as I believe they do, that the course of mise hievous men has interfered with the wise, constitutional policy of the President, I will declare it, day by day and hour by hour, thoughall the forces of the opposite party here concentered were to seek by every ru e allowed by the practice of the House to stop my speech. What care I for the paperresolutions of any political organization in any political body, if here conse ientiously discharge my duties as aRepresentative? and I claim, in that capacity, to stand without reproach. I have never given a vote here or raised my voice in debate here without keeping within the rules and regulations of the House. What mistakes may be made in the impetuosity of debate, in the eagerness to fulfill our duty toward our constituents is aside from the motives with which we may be actuated. But no act of mine has ever cast reproach upon the constituency I represent, and no act of the member from Ohio can cast infamy on me. As to any personal rebuke which may fall upon myself, look upon it as too ridiculous to need serious consideration. I regret, Mr. Speaker that my resolution was not allowed to take teusual course without involving me in these personalities. I wish to say in regard to the resolution that it is as harmless a resolution as was ever introduced into this House. The resolution only meets the line of argument which the majority on this floor have advanced from time to time by condensing what I deem a fitting reply in a few words. That is all there is in the resolution. such resolutions are often presented. Why this stringent cord drawn around this.particular resolution? Why the bow string and the knout here? Why this lash which has driven the majority here to vote with such unanimity? Do you suppose that your lash can reach any man on this side of the House? Ifyou do you are very much mistaken. The action of the few men who control this Congress and this Government is subject to very strict criticism; it is worthy of denunciation; it is worthy of the loudest anathemas; and as a Representative on this floor, had I the power of eloquence, I should seek to crush the majority by all the stinging and searching arguments which their own acts offer me. We are few in numbers here, but not as few as the peculiar bod which controls the action of both branches of Congress, contrary to the established rules and practice of American legislation and because we oppose the action of this select committee and declare that it shall not hold us responsible, those of us who offer resolutions of this character are held up as worthy of censure. Now, what have these few constituting this committee done? Have they offered to this body one single reason for their course, one argument for their report, or introduced one legislative act which will enable the Executive, in the discharge of his public duties, to use the powers which the Constitution gives him to save the people. That, sir, is the select few, that is the body of men against whom that resolution was hurled, those and the people who support it; against those few in comparison with the great body of the people outside of this House who support the action of that Select committee. Gentlemen seem to think that because they hold seats here in the majority they rule this country. The think that the powers which have dese ends upon them from the hands of the people, uccoring to the forms of the Con. stitution, give them unlimited control for all time to come. They think that the great plea of necessity under which, during the turmoils of war, they controlled the acts of the Government is valid now, and gives them the right to carrg on a system of government they then esta lished, a system peculiar in itself, opposed to the Constitution, and pronounced by an Executive chosen by themselves to be uncon st itutional. Your term of Office is limited, and the power you exercise is limited, and its end is near. So much for that portion of the resolution. I have notat any time addressed the House upon that select committee, because it was like talkingfio the idle wind or firing at the insensible roc. Now, with regard to the 2nd part of the resolution M