Mr. GRIMES. The Iron Age, the organ of the manufacturers of iron and cutlery in the U.S. This, it seems, is the manner in which these men are to operate upon the fears and the judgments of members of Congress to induce them to assist in passing a bill which, in my conviction, while it would be to their advantage would be vastly to the disadvantage of a vast portion of this country, if not the whole of it. Now, sir, as to the facts, I desire to say that it is true that I was once a partner in a house that conducted the hardware business; but my entire interest in that establishment ceased on the 28th of August, 1865. From that day to this I have never had the slightest interest in anything connected with the hardware or the iron business. I am not the owner, either directly or indirectly, of a dollar's worth of hardware, save what is in use in my own dwelling for domestic purposes. As to the statement that I am a partner in an establishment in Beekman street in the city of NewYork, I have simply to say that it is un. false. I cannot imagine from what this falsehood springs, except it be from the fact that a person who once had an interest in my business in the State of Iowa is now, in some way or other, vonnected with a cutlery establishment in Beekman street, in NewYork. I do not even know the name of the firm with which he is associated. My constituents, I think, the people of my own town and of my own State, know whether I am interested in an improper manner in the hardware or in the iron business. I have never heard that they suspected me of being improperly interested in this regard. All I have to say is, that if the gentlemen connected with the iron and steel association, or any of those who act under their inspira.tion, imagine that they are going to accomplish any good for themselves by such gross, slanderous, libelous attacks upon members of this body, I trust they will find that they are mistaken; they certainly will so far as it depends upon me. That this publication was intended as a libel is evident, from the fact that the publishers of the Iron Age could, without the slightest difficulty, have informed themselves of the falsity of their charges without going out of the city of NewYork, where their publication is issued. As to the influence that I am said to have exerted upon members of the ComFinance to induce them to report on the subject of cutlery as they have reported in the tariff bill they can answer for themselves. if I have ever spoken to any member of the committee on that subject during the present or in any But possibly the honorable gentleman has no pecuniary interest in this matter of impreceding session of Congress I am not conscious of it. Order of BUSineSS.