BOUTWELL: "Have you at any time heard the President make any remark in reference to the admission of members of Congress from the rebel States into either House ?" GENERAL GRANT: "I cannot say positively what I have heard him say on the subject.

I have heard him say as much, perhaps, in his published speeches last summer, as I ever heard him say at all upon that subject.
I have heard him say--and I think I have heard him say it twice in his speeches--that if the North carried the elections by members enough to give them, with the Southern members, a majority, why would they not be the Congress of the United States?
I have heard him say that several times." MR.

THOMAS WILLIAMS: "When you say 'the North,' you mean the Democratic party of the North; or, in other words, the party favoring his policy ?" GENERAL GRANT: "I mean if the North carried enough members in favor of the admission of the South.

I did not hear him say that he would recognize them as the Congress.

I merely heard him ask the question, 'Why would they not be the Congress ?'" MR.