Mr. MORRILL. Yes. For instance, you appropriate about 100,000 dollars for the insane. Thatis a charitable object, but you have the supervision and control of that as 'lum. So of the appropriation of 7odd 1,000 dollars in this bill for the deaf and dumb. There you have control. We have a bill before the Senate for which I shafl ask the consideration of the Senate, to night, for another public charity; that is, a House of Refuge forjnvenile offenders. I might go on and enumerate the charitable institutions which you have under your control. I am not sure that you oughtnot to endowaliOSpital here; but there is another side to that question which I heped I should not be called upon to argue, and that is this: while you are in this very bill granting to the public charities of this District over 200,000 dollars, the query is whether you have not gone far enough to justify you in pntting upon the local corporations of these cities the duty of doing something toward these charities. It is here proosed to grant to a private corporation over whiich you have no control, to an institution organized under an act of incorporation granted to 5 maiden ladies, $30,000 to be used for crectin a building just as they please, to be governed and directed by such rules and regulations as they shall make, you having no right to interfere, no right to ask a report, no right of visi tation, no right of supervision. In addition to this $30,000, you give, in the same bill, $12,000 for the support of 60 transient persons, whom you may put there, or anywhere else you see fit, which, I submit to my honorable friendfrom Ohio, is a pretty large compensation for the support of transient persons in a hospital. It is $200 apiece, which IS amply abundant for their support. If I am understood, this is all I desire to say. I Wished to impress on the Senate that the charity which we are bestowing is not to one of our institutions. It is a case where some half a dozen public spirited and charitable ladies come here and ask you to give them $30,000 to carry out their worthy object. That is all there is about it. All I meant to say was that there was not another institution here of a similar character which I think I can satisfy the Senate is quite as worthy of their favor as this which is before us, and which has done something and would be glad to do more in this direction; but it is not a public institution, and for that reason the ComDistCol hesitated to make a recommendation, and only authorized me to make it upon the ground that it should be the sense of the Senate that they would endow institutions over which the had no control.