Mr. FESSENDEN. There are 2 things that I dislike very much, although perhaps it is very bad taste in me to dislike them. One is to seek the occasion of a mere matter of business to make political speeches, dragging polities into every bill that affords an opportunity to make a political speech upon. It interrupts the ordina course of business, cre ates bad feeling, anldyis, allow me to say, in excessively bad taste. If it leads to any conclusion whatever, it is that polities is the only subject upon which gentlemen feel at home an can make a speech, and not upon matters of business. Another thing that I dislike, although that is a matter of taste and Senators can do as they please, is assailin absent men who are not here to speak for themselves and defend themselves. "he habit in Congress of abusing different individuals, not for particular acts when those acts are under discussion, but upon matters of business, whenever a chance can be got to do it, I think is in bad taste. I think, moreover, that it has another effect and that is to injure ourselves exceeding]. The people of this country are a very sensibIc people, taking them as a whole, and I have the impression that they do not look upon that kind of way of doing business as the most beneficial or the most becoming in men who are presumed to know how to do it; but as Isaid before, that is a matter of taste and opinion upon which we may well differ. ow, sir, as the SecyTreasury is not here to speak for himself, and the Senfrom Massachusetts has seen fit to comment upon him with some severity, I wish to say a word on the other side. I do not believe that at the present day anybody will suspect me particularly of being in favor of the President's policy, socalled. I have defined my position on that subject quite as distinctly as anybody else; but I do not want to talk about 'it on an appropriation bill. I think we have had quite enough occasions during this session upon which we could discuss all those questions, and that if we are to bring them up on appropriation bills and other business matters during I he residue of the session, gentlemen will not be likely to get away by the middle of July, because we shall have it over and over again upon the different subjects that come up. know that the present SecyTreasury does not at present stand in that relation to Congress which I should like to have him occupy; but I really believe that much of the fault that is found with him as SecyTreasury nothing would have been said about and no complaints made about if it had not been that he did not agree with the majority of Congress upon political subjects. It always happens that when a gentleman who is at the head of a Dept or in any other public position antagonizes with any party, majority or minority, they criticise his acts with a feeling and in a manner that they would not do if he was their politiuil friend; and therefore I think such discussions in Congress, if they are not called for. are exceedingly unprofitable. I think the SecyTreasury endeavors to perform his duty as SecyTreasury honestly and faithfully. I did not agree With him in the speech that he made in response to a set of gentlemen who called upon him the other evening to draw him out. I think that speech was in bad taste, and an unfortu nate one, a portion ofit. But I think that the nature of the speech was rather due to the fact that he was not accustomed to public speaking, and did not know where he was going when he began exactl, than to any other cause.