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just as much force and al ignsty In q com nittes,
and would not be tried upon passion.
Mr.. Garfield said he WOali suppose that Mr.
smith would prefer an open and fair mTeStiga-
ton st the bar OF the House rather IN an one be-
| fore committee. No injustice could come OF
an open investigation.
Mr Bingham (ol advocated an open invest
CATION. lie thoaght this Was a matter talt
should be settled here. without going % the ex-
Pense and trouble OF sending fOr persons AMI
Tapers, a. would have 20 be done by a commit
tee investigation. lie showed that this coarse
had been frequently pursusd in other cases
where privileges OF members had been viola
ted
Mr.. Butler had no doubt a fun and fair in
vcstgation could be had before a committee.
In hearing at the bar there would be no op-
portunity TO put in counter evidence A. there
would be in an Investigation before a commit
! tee
Mr.. Fitch thought this was a very plain nat
ter, which the House could soon settle. All the
correspondent had 20 do was 10 show cause for
his statement. He (Mr. Fitch claimed that all
that Was stated about him wss a lie in essence
and lie in detail. He wanted 20 know where
the correspondent got his information.
Mr.. FarRsworth said the correspondent had
made one statement, and the gentleman from
Massachusetts Mr.. Butlerl denied IL. He could
not see any propriety Of Ofsending this case back 20
gentleman from Massachusetts, for investigA-
tlOn.
After seme further discussion, the resolution
Mr.. Porter Wal sent 10 the clerks desk and
had read a letter detailing the circumstances OF
an assault upon him in Richmond, Va, on May
Soth, by Patrick Woods.
MIR. Ward IN. " offered resolution 20 arrest
the said Woods and bring him before the bar OF
the House and show cause why he should not be
punished tor violation Of the rights aud priyi-
leges Of one OF the members OF the House.
agreed 20.
The House then resumed consideration Of the
motion 20 reconsider the vote by which the nat
uraliZatiOn bill was rejected and laid upon the
table. The vote was reconsidered by vote OF
% TO s.. By a vote OF n % 20 the bin was then
recommitted 20 the Committee on the Judiclary.
At IL O'Clock, the Sergeant-at-Arms APP
peared at the bar OF the House with Mr.. W.
| Scott Smith. Mr.. 3. was brought 20 the bar
when the alleged libellous matter was read. ami
also the resolution under which he was arrested.
When Mr.. Smith was asked what he had 20
say In the matter, he presented the folio OWing
written statement which was read at the clerks
desk.
To the Speaker Of fAe House Of Representatives
In regard 10 my first dispatch In the New York
Evening Post of Monday, june 9Th, 1850, the
statements contained therein were based upon
ofhcial documents, which 4 saw, and the state
ments set forth in the dispatch were identical
with those contained in said documents, aud
| the names mentioned in the dispatch were the
same a. those codtained in those papers, aud
used there In the same connection as in sad
dispatch.
"a. Upon these statements being denied nv
Mr.. Fitch in the House of Representatives. /
called upon Gen. n. r. Butler and conversed
with him upon the ssbject, and asked him whe-
ther he intended 20 state in the House that there
was no evidence before his committee directly
| or indirectly duplicating Mr.. Fitch. Gen. But
ler said this was not his exact meaning. but that
Mr. Fitchs name appeared I'm the afidavit OF
N. B. Taylor a. having been approached, and
| that copy Of the ffdavit was among the papers
before his investigating committee, bat that he
| Fitch, as IL did not appear that he had in any
way responded to the approaches alluded 10 BY
Mr.. Taylor.
In reploto question by me, Gen. Butler fur
ther said that the names Of all the members
mentioned in my despatch appeared In the af-
| ndayit Of Mr.. Taylor as having been approached
| by him TO secure their aid for the Cuban cause
| WIN. SCoTT SMITH,
Wash. Cor. New York Evening Post