Mr. BLAINE. It is hardly worth while to pursue this controvery further; but still the Gentfrom NewYork cannot get off on the technicality which he has suggested. He says that a commission never was issued to him. I understand him to admit. that if a commission hadbeen issued to him he could not have taken pay for bothollices. Now. every one knows that those preliminary authorizations are the things on which half the business arising out of the war has been done. Men have fought at the head of battalions and divisions and Army corps without having received their formal commissions. The gentleman was just as much bound to respect the law under that appointment as thong it had been a formal commission with the signature of the SecyWar. As to the gentlemans cruel sarcasm, I hope he will not he too severe. The contempt of that large minded gentleman is so wilting; his haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his majestic, supereminent, overpowering, turke gobbler strut has been so crushing to myse f and all the members of this House thatl know it was an act of the greatest temerity for me to venture upon a controversy with him. But. sir. I know who is responsible for all this. I know that within the last 5 weeks, as members of the House will recollect, an extra strut has characterized the gentlemans bearing. It is not his fault. ltis the fault of another. That fitted and satirical writer, Theodore Tilton, of the NewYork Independent, spent someweeks recently in this city. His letters published in that paper embraced, with many serious statements, a little jocose satire, a part of which was the statement that the mantle of the late Winter Davis had fallen upon the member from NewYork. The gentleman took it seriously, and it has given his strut additional omposity. The resemblance is reat. lt is striking. Hyperion to a satyr, T ersites to Hercules, mud to marble, dunghill to diamond, a singed cat to a Bengal tiger, a whining pu py to a roaring lion. Shade of the mighty avis, forgive the almost rofanation of that jocose satire!