Mr. ROGERS. I offer this amendment more for the purpose of vindicating myself, than any thin e so, from the malicious assaults which the onorable Gentfrom the State of Maine [Mr. BLAINE] has made it his business to make upon me every time I have got up to say anything in this House. I suppose that he knows very well that during the remarks which I made on the amendment offered by the Gentfrom Illinois I confined myself strictly to the question before the House. This House will hear me witness in saying that in no arguments which I make before this House do I digress from the subject under debate, and that I always confine myself strictly to the subject before the House. I make negeneral speeches; no Saturday speeches. I mean no disrespect to anybod else, but I think I ought to be treated with common respect, at least, by the Gentfrom Maine when I get up to address the House. When my resolutions, over which I had no control, came up a week or 2 since, I had the floor, and the Speaker of the House told the House the reasons why I was entitled to the floor and because I would not yield the right which I then had the Gentfrom Maine got up and abused me and treated me in a most shameful and indecorous manner; in such a manner as I would treat no member either on this side of the House or on the other. The House will hear me witness of the truth that I always treated gentlemen upon all sides of this House with the utmost courtesy. No body has known me to get up and browbeat and abuse any member because he did not agree with me. God made us so that our natures are different, and we arrive at different conclusions, and I think it is most cont emptibleand indise reet work on the part of the Gentleman, when I undertake to ise uss any subject, to attempt to browheat me and insult me. In what I have said I have no ill feeling toward the gentleman at all. I hold him in high respect. I believe him to be a gentleman, and shall always treat him with courtesy. All that I ask of him is that he shall treat me in the same way. He is a member on the other side of the House, and he is only entitled to the same rights that I am. When he speaks on any question he never finds me slurring him for what he says. Although I may not say what will suit the other side of the House, I speak the honest dictates of an honest heart and the views I entertain, and I do not like to be abused for my honest convictions by any gentleman u von the other side of the House.