Mr. STEVENS. I shall very willingly give the Gentfrom Indiana [Mr. Nihlack] the reasons why the appropriation to which he refers has been left out of this bill. It was left out of the appropriation bill of last year and an exPress enactment was made that no further payment of salary should be made to that minister. I am sorry to hear the gentleman say that that minister still continues there in defiance of. Congress. The reason the approwas omitted last year was that there had appeared in the NewYork papers a very long letter from Mr. Harvey to the SecyState, in which, among other things, after a fulsome eulogy of the President, to which I did not object because I thought, it very be coming, he indulged in a most foul and vulgar abuse of Congress. I am sorry that the letter is not here now to be read. It was published in the Globe of the last session. In that letter Mr. Harvey denounced Congress as corrupt, and said every thing else which it was possible for him to say to piease gentlement at the other end of the avenue. This letter was sent to the President, and he deemed it so good a thing that he sent it to a NewYork paper to be published. The House called upon o: SecyState for a copy of that letter to ascertain its authenticity. Its authenticity was certified to by the SecyState, who sent us a full copy of the whole letter. The letter, when read to the House, will I think be found to bear the character which I have given it, as a most abusive, vulgar, vile attack upon Congress, which it denounces as fit for anything else than its duties. This is the same Mr. Harvey who was believed to have communicated information to the enemy upon the eve of the bombardment of Fort Sumter; and in consequence of this fact being discovered the Union Senators, a short time after his confirmation, waited in a body upon the President and asked that his appointment should be revoked. But the President, in the goodness of his heart, could not think of doing such a thing; and Harvey was suffered to retain the position. He remained there until he wrote this attack upon Congress. If he is there now he is there in defiance of the will of Congress; and I trust he will be allowed to pay his own expenses. His name was stricken from the appropriation bill of last year, and this further provision was added: And no money shall be paid to the Presentminister resident at Portugal out of any fund whateveron account of further services in his office.