Mr. BROMWELL. If the gentleman will not interrupt me I will speak of the common reputation of that bureau in the country; and that its reputation is bad facts are not wanting I apprehend to prove. but I did not rise for the purpose of discuss.ing every particular dereliction on the part of that bureau. We know that almost every agricultural, horticultural, and pomological society in the Union has called upon the government to reform that bureau and to place another man in charge of it. Yet we are to be told that the valuable pictures and writings published once a year by that bureau are so essential to the agriculture of the country it must be carried on, although it be, as intimated by the Gentfrom Vermont, [Mr. MoR RiLI., ] the seat of corruption, and though its total inefficiency is notorious throughout the country. I should like to know why this Government might not as well subscribe to some agricultural newspaper, whose volume at the end of the year would contain more pictures and have a greater number of articles, as well written, which would be quite as instructive as those of the Agricultural Bureau? Look at the seed purchased. Could we not purchase that seed, new seed of any kind or variety, in Philadelphia, NewYork, or other city through an agent as well as this bureau of the Government. Of course, with the Gentfrom Ohio I regard the Agricultural Bureau as one of the institutions of the country which ought to be maintained. But, sir, it ought to be maintained with some efficiency. It ought not to be the laughing stock of the country. It ought to be something which can benefit the agricultural interest and be of profit to the people of the country by providing them with new and valuable seeds and with useful information at a reasonable expense to the Government. But what do we have? Every member of Congress gets about once in 3 months some kind of seed, which can be purchased in every grocery or seed store from the Atlantic to the Pacific at 5 cents a paper. The whole thing would not amount to more than 3 or 4 dollars if bought in a seed store. At the same time about once or twice in the year each member of Congress gets a handful of flower seeds. All these, so far as I have noticed, are for sale by the gardeners and at the seed stores. What does it all amount to? We get a volume a year written in that Dept not so good as the American Agriculturist or the Prairie Farmer, which can be furnished, I believe, at $1 50 a year. Here the hammer fell]