Mr. OAWES. I do not say that these judges of election committed fraud. I have not been so understood, I think. I did notintend to be so understood. I mean to say that they express in their card the unequivocal opinion and assert the fact that there was fraud. I cannot do away with the suspicion which keeps coming up in my mind that that inspector kept the wrong key on purpose. But I admit it has nothing to do With the merits of this case, whether the fraud was committed by the ! inspector or bysome one else. If the box was i opened and the tickets taken out, and the sa credness of the ballot box invaded, it makes no difierence to us here by whom it was done. My friendfrom Illinois [Mr. Mussn.1,] says they only expressed an opinion. I challenge any member of the House to read the aper in evrdence, and then say that the committee did not come to a correct conclusion in the matter and let me submit to the gentleman who claims a martyrs robes this day, and calls the attention of mankind to the resignation with which he wraps them around him here in this House and then walks out of it, that he claims the right to a sent here upon the ground that. his political friends invaded the sacredness of the ballot box, and fitted it to the neces sities and exigencies of his case. Let him put that on his martyrs robes and go out of this House with it if he desires, unless he will come back here and condescend to submit his views upon that point. He has sought to trythe ComElections before this House, and not to try his case. He has offered not one single word of explanation or argument in reply to this testimony touching this ballotbox. It is a question of fact for this House to pass upon, upon which men have the right to differ and have no doubt they wilLexercise it. et me sum it up in a few words. There have been testified to by living witnesses 170 votes cast at one township, while there have been only 143 of them counted. At another township there have been 36 votes testified to by those who cast them, and only 24 counted. At another 108 votes were testified to and only 88 votes counted. Now, all the answer to this is, that of this number of voters there are a certain number that cannot write their names; and it is to be i assumed that a man who does not write his name does not know for whom he votes. It is asking this House to say that because a witness cannot write his name, therefore he cannot tes tify truly when he testifies that he knows for whom he voted. I am not one of those members of this House who have declared by their votes that the inability of aman towrite his name is no disqualification from voting. I think that a voter oughtat least to be able to write his name and to read it, but there is no evidence here that these men cannot read, and the fact is patent all over the world that men can read who cannot write. But whether they can read or not, they know what they did. It is the last charge to come from men who have voted on this floor that the inability to write ones name is no dis qualification of a voter and yet they ask this House to put alongside of that vote another vote, that the man who could not write does not know for whom he voted. Now, unless it is a fair conclusion in the minds of members of this House thata man who cannotwrite his name does not know how he voted, then there is no question but what the real vote was cast as I have stated, and shows a majority for the contestant. I do not believe that any member of the committee would be guilty of asking this House to voteto unseat the sitting member unless he solemnly believed that the majority of the votes were for the contestant. I do not understand how my colleague upon the committee [Mr. MARSHALL] can consent to cooperate with a committee which he believes guilty of any such monstrous attempt as heseems to have charged. The committee have heard the contestant and the sitting member. They have considered all the testimony that either of them expressed any desire to present. They have excluded nothing, not one particle of testimony touching either of these precincts that either the sitting member or the contestant desired to submit. They have heard the explanation of that evidence. They have examined and reexamined this case and now all that can be said against it from any quarter whatever is summed up in this, that a man who cannot write his name does not know for whom he votes. I submit that question to the House in the form of theresolutions reported by the majority of the committee.