18th CONGRESS-. SESSION.

 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
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Friday, Dec. %.

 THE VICE PRESIDENT.

 The Speaker laid before the House the follow ing communication from the Vice Pres ident of the U. States.

 To the Speuaer of the House of Representq- tiUeS-

 S,E--You will please to lay before the House over which you preside, the en- closed communication, addressed to that body.

 Very respectfully, yours, &c.

 J. c. CALHOUN. To the Honorable the Members

 of the House of Representatives:

 An imperious sense of duty, and a sacred regard to the honor of the station which I occupy, compel me to approach your body in its high character of grand inquest of the nation.

 Charges have been made against me of the most serious nature, and which, if true, ought to degrade me from the high station in which have been placed by the choice of my fel- low citizens, and to consi gn my name to per- petuai infamy.

 In claiming investigation of the House, am sensible that, under our free and happy institution, the conduct of public servants is d fair subject of the closest scrutiny and the freest remarks and that firm and faithful discharge of duty affords, ordinarily, ample protection against political attacks, but when such attacks assume the character of inpeach- able offences, and become in some degree of ficial, by being placed among the public rec ordsyan officer thus assailed, however base the instruments used, if conscious of inno- cence, can look for refuge only to the Hall of the immediate Representatives ofthe peo- pie. It js thus find myself unexpectedly placed.

 On Wednesday morning last, it was for the first time mtimatcd to ule, that charges of a very serious nature against me were lodged m one of the executive departments dusing the day. rumOrs from several quarters, to the same effect, reached me but the first certain information oftheir character, was received yesterday morning through one of the news papers, of the District. It appears from its statements that am accused of the sordid and infamous crime of participation in the profits of contracts formed with the govern ment through the Department of War, while was entrusted with discharge of its du- ties, and that the accusation has been official ly presented as the basis of an official act of the War Department, and consequently, to be placed amOngits records as a lasting stigma on my character.

 Conscious of my entire innocence in this, and every other public aet, and that have ever been incapable in the performance of duty, of being influenced by any other mo- tive than a sacred regard to the public inter- est, and resolved, as far as human effort can extend, to leave an untarnishcd reputation to posterity, challenge the freest investigation ofthe House, as the only means effectually to repel this premeditated attack to prostrate me, by destroying forever my character.

 J.C. CALHOUN.

 Vice President of the U. States. Washington, Dec. 29th, 1926.