Mr. HOWE. I do not know what might have been the opinion of the Senfrom maryland on that point yesterday. Iapprehen, however, he entertained a very different opinion upon that point from what the Senfrom Missourisuggests. That was his statement. I havethe same information from other sources. I have no doubt it is entirely correct. But, sir, this bill would not only strike off, if that estimate is correct, 2/3rds of the causes that come here, but it would strike of? a still larger proportion by virture of this 2nd hearing that is provided for in the court of appeals before causes come here at all. When suitors have alread had 2 trials, it will be a remarkable case that they will wish to brin here. I am surprised to hear Senators an lawyers argue as if it was the ordinary pradtice of suitors to litigate causes simply to gratif a feeling of.obstinacy or ofrevenge. That such is the ordinary motive which governs suitors, I took occasion to deny yesterday, and I deny it today; and if I believed it was the ordinary motive, my remedy would be not to secure that luxury of revenge to your wealthiest classes alone, but I would depriVe every class and every individual of it, and I would open no courts whatever to the indulgence of such a motive. There are exceptions, as I said yesterday and repeat to dny, but in point of fact the ordinary ru e is that men go to courts as they go to war, for right and because they cannot get it in any other way; and when they go there for that purpose, let the Government see, so far as it can, that rightis as secure to small fortunes as it is to large ones. But I put it to Senators to experiment in the other way; make your limitation $5,000; or I accept the suggestion of the Senfrom NewHampshire; am willing to modify the amendment and put it at $6.000. Try that experiment. Ifyou find, contrary to the expectation of the old practitioners in the Supreme Court, that the calendar is still incum ered beyond the capacity of the court to determine the causes, at the next session of Congress or at the next session after that, when that fact is unmistakably determined. when it does not stand upon mere prediction but stands upon verification, then provide a remedy, and then, asI said yesterday, you can take one of 2 remedies, either raise the amount upon which a cause can come here on appeal, or provide the other remedy which was referred to yesterday by several Senators, and I think myself that would be the better one; but that will be time enough to further disembarrass the litigation in that court.