Mr. CONNESS. I beg the attention of the Senate only for a moment, because of what has been said by the honorable Senfrom Ohio. I beg the Senate and that honorable Senator to believe that I feel perhaps quite as independent as I ought to feel of any remarks either for or against me that may be made by the public press, or by any person. I think in that, respect I have an ordinary amount of personal discretion and courage, if I may use the terms. I directed what I said, from which it might be inferred that I had any feeling of that kind, only to the matter of a more full expositionof the question. WhatI complain of is that the synoptical reports that go out from this body, which are the only reports received by the people, should, in justice to the Senate and the people, contain what they profess to doa true synopsis of the business of the senate. I know that that dees not include the arguments of Senators. The business of the Senate is one thing as stated in the Journal; the arguments elicited in connection with the transactions of that business are alto ether another matter. I cannot expect the ssociated Press or anybody else to give a full exposition of whatever views I might present at any time, and I make no comilnint because that is not done; but, in regnr to such a proposition as was submitted here yesterday, it is stated in this synoptical report that the honorable Senfrom Ohio said, and for uttering iIt give him great credit, that the complaints made, and the manner in which they were made in the memorial I presented, were not well founded: his side of t 9 case is given, when not a word is stated as coming from me in behalf of the memorialists, my constituents. That is the way it goes out in these synoptical reports. N ow, I submit to the honorable Senfrom Ohio who can afford to pass this by easily, whether this is just, whet or it is right, and whether its correction does not properly come within the legitimate purview of t Senate. Then, I called attention additionally to the fact that I presented 2 other memorials a few days since, no reference to whichever appeared in the sync tical reports that went out to the country; an that I presented 2 bills of the greatest consequence to the people that I represent here within 2 days past nota word in regard to which has gone out in the synoptical reports of the proceedinis of this bod. Sir, am not ere as a can idate for public favor;I ask no favors from the Associated ress, nor any othorpart of the press, but I submit to the Senate on to the honorable Senfrom Ohio that we here are peers of each other, that the States and communities who have sent us here are entitled to consideration, that this should not be viewed in the light. of personal complaint, but that every Senator is equally interested in having a true reflex of the business of thlis body go out to the country and to the co e. p