Mr. BUCKALEW. Mr. President, the estimates for the different items of outlay were very carefully ascertained and reported at the last session in the report of the joint select committee, and they appear on pages 24 and 25 of that report. As a matter of course, the amount proposed an appropriation will not be expended before the meeting of the next session of Congress; but it is necessary to know what the Senate intend to do. This Inn of improvement is an entirety; one part is ependent upon another; and a complete result can only be secured by the adoption of the entire scheme, at least in its main parts. The committee have reported to the Senate a plan, in conformity to their investigations, and what is desired is, not that we shall get the opportunity of spending money between this and the next session of Congress, but that we shall have the plan adopted and permit all the preliminary arrangements to be made, and the work to be carried forward to such a point that we can secure its completion during the vacation after ilie adjournment at the iiextsession. As Isaid ll('llpl"(“, the Senate would still have it within their power at the next sessirm to arrest those changes which I stated in connection with the roofniid ceiling; but I do not believe that the Senate ever would arrest them if the work were once ordered. l suited, also, that at the opening of the next session there would be a complete modcl of the Senate wing ready, showing the changes proosed above the Hall, by which members would (2enabled to judge of the question. if indeed there should lllfll be any question, with regard to proceeding in completing the improvements designed. To be sure, you can make appropriations for this. that, and the other items covered by the estimates in the report to which l have alluded; but that would be a very vain and frivolous mode of proceeding, leading to no results. bringing us to no conclusion, and securing no valuable and real improvement. The subject is to be passed upon as a general preposition, and not in detail. I do not know that the Senator desired the particular estimates to be stated. I have them ere for each item covered by this appropriation, mounting in the aggregate to a sum it little exceeding $113,000. fc voted lastyear, without serious question, $100,000 for extendqing the Congressional Library. A debate took place on the subject. We thought that object was sufficient to warrant the appropriation of. so much money. To be sure, it has not been all expended: it is not all expended even at this time. Now. sir, if it was worth while for us to expend $100,000 in extending the congressional Library, I ask whether it is not worth while to expend the amount proposed in the pending amendment for the iurpose of preserving the health and securingt e comfort of one of the branches of the great legislative dept of this Government in future time.