Mr. CONKLING. If the House will indulge me, I wish to make for myself an emphatic disclaimer. My colleague does not Ii O to disclaim anything. I wish to disclaim making any appeal whatever to him upon this question. He iterates and reiterates the word “appeal;” I remind him thatl have made no appeal to him; and if he feels called upon to say anything touching his own connection with this matter it must be in consequence of promptings other than any suggestions of mine. One word further, Mr. Speaker. The bill which I introduced was sent me, it seems, by the Gentfrom NewJersey, [Mr. Root ms, at the renest of the Gentfrom lthodo Island [Mr. JENEREs] and others of the select committee. I did not look at it but simply complied with the request made of me, not only by the Gentfrom NewJerse, [Mr. Itoosns, ] but, in substance, by severa other members of the select committee. A number of gentlemen appealed to me to do something to revive the bill, that it might be further amended. This I was willing to do upon receiving the assurance that the committee would accept certain amendments. The chairman of the committee sn posed a motion to reconsider would accomplish the purpose, and to satisfy him upon this point I put. a question to the Chair which drew from the Speaker the statement that the only way to keep alive the committee, and repossess it of the subject. was to introduce a bill anew and have it referred. This I expressed my willin ess to do with the understanding that it should be rendered accept able to those who thought with me as to alterations to be made. This understanding was assented to by at least 3 members of the committee and some one of them was to brin the bill to my seat. It was brought to me as have said, and without looking at it at all to see whether it was one mans bill or another mans bill, I sent it to the Clerks desk and asked leave of the House to introduce it. The leave being granted, I suggested to the Gentfrom RhdIsland [Mr. Jss exss] that it might be well to ask the Speaker to recognize him. that he might enter a motion to reconsider. so as to be able to call up the motion and the bill at. his pleasure, as his committee might not soon be called for reports. My whole purpose was, as will be seen. to do my utmost to aid the Gentfrom RhdIsland [Mr. Jese xss] and his committee and togive them absolute control of the subject. This act of courtesy, so ordinary that I think no member of the House would claim credit for having done it, or would have felt himself excused had he refused to do it when requested. has been seized on by some one an perverted into n. dishonorable proceeding. A telegraph has been sent to one of the great papers which is malicious and ven omous. lhe venom is easily discoverable, and particularly in the statement that Mr. Coxxuxo having bitterly opposed the bill, now takes it and introduces it as his own. Does not every man of honor see the animus of that? Did not every reader of the see in paperit an accusation that the person reerred to had been paltering in a dou le sense; that he had bitterly opposed a measure and had then sought to claim itas his own; that he had appropriated another mans labor, had sought to deprive another of his just dues, and had attempted to palm of? as original 8( mething not his own? All this offalse suggestions and more, is contained in this telegraphed libel. I repeat that it was an extraordinary statement. a venomous statement, and I stand by what I say. I also repeat my belief that the gentlemen who ordinarily telegraph to the NewYork Times, and whom the public hold responsible for what appears there as “tele graphic dispatches from Washington, " did neither of them either inspire or write this disatch. There, if others are content to leave it, am content to leave it.