Mr. FESSENDEN. The Senator had expressed his feelings once, and I think that after 3 nights sleep he might have ot over that annoyance sufficiently to have hed his tongue on a subject on which he had already once spoken. I think he must have been a little excited, although he does not show it so much in the tones of his voice. Now, sir, allow me to say, that the honordble Senator reported his bill by order of the majority of the committee, not a particular order that he should report it, but after the vote was taken, thatit should be reported by the consent of the chairman of the committee, whose business it was to report it if he chose to do so; but he chose, as a matter of courtesy, to pass it over to the honorable Senator who ha introduced it. That is the way it came to be reported by the Senator; otherwise it would have been reported by me, and been under my charge as chairman of the committee. That is the simple fact about that. I gave notice in the committee (as I always do when I intend to act in that way) that when the bill came into the Senate I should oppose it by all means in my power; and when it came into the Senate and was reported apparently with the assent of all the committee, I stated the same thing. I know and understand what effect these financial measures have upon the money market always, and that they are made a matter of trade and speculation; and I for that reason took pains to say that the committee was not unanimous upon the bill, and that I myself was opposed to it. I went no further at that time. Sir, I have a perfect right to say, and any member of a committee has a right, when he understands that a bill is reported not with the approbation or sanction or pledge of the majority of the committee to it, but simply by leave of the committee in order that it may be brought into the Senate and presented to the Senate, to state that fact. It. has been done reeatedly, and I had a perfect right to say, as I did say, that the bill, although reported with the consent of a majority of the committee, was not reported as the decision of the committee. The Senators opinion of the impropriety of that thing he may entertain; but I maintain thatI had a perfect right to do it and there was nothing improper in it, and I should do the same again on er like circumstances ifIchose to do it. That is all there is of that. When the Senator remarked that he should bring his bill 11, and when he antagonized that to mine, I said). it is true, that I was oppOSed to taking up his bill, not only for the reason that I wished another to come up, but for the reason that I was opposed to it and hoped it would not come up at all; but I meant by that to express nothing more than I had said before; and that was, that I was opposed to his bill. The Senator, however, chose to understand that as an indication that I meant to try every parliamentary method to prevent action on his bill. That was an intention which did not exist in point of fact; which I never thought of. I meant merely to state that I was opposed to it and hoped it would not come u. I remain of the same opinion still. Undou tedly the senate will take it up in its own good time, and then we shall have action upon it. I have no feeling about it, not the slightest in the world; but burdened as I am With business, and in fact unfit to do any business at all, and having staring me in the face in the course of a few days the tax bill, which I must take the principal charge of, if Iam able to do so, or pass it over to the honorable Senfrom Ohio, and the reconstruction business, I did wish to clear the table of these little matters which ought to go to the HoRep. Now, sir, do not feel that I am under any special respon sibility for the business of the Senate: but, so far as I am, I hope the Senate will indulge me in all reasonable requests.