Mr. WILLIAMS. I hope no Senator will suppose that any omission in this resolution resulted from oversight, for if there ever was a measure that was carefully considered upon the rePresentations of all parties concerned this is one. I have been overwhelmed with applications from all the employees of the government in this District of every description in reference to its provisions. I will say that applications have i.made by the employees at the arsenal, the navy yard, Government Printing Office, and other places where persons are employed, and by the laborers upon the Capitol extension and the Treasury extension, for a provision in this resolution to embrace them. And if the employees of the arsenal be now embraced, then all the employees at the navy yard, on the Capitol and Treasury extensions, and in the Government Printing Office ought to be embraced, for there is no reason for making any discrimination; and it is a question for the Senate to determine whether these mechanics and laborers and others who are employed at these different places shall or shall not be embraced within the provisions of this resolution. There are about 1200 persons employed at the navy yard, some 3 or 400 at the arsenal, some 5 or 600in the Government Printing Office, and several 100 upon the Capitol and Treasury extensions. 20%. upon the wages paid to all these employees, as nearly as I can estimate it of course I have not ob.tained any very great accuracy would amount to between 3 and 400,000 dollars. I desire to have the Senate determine the question. If the motion of the honorable Senfrom Minnesota prevails I shall then insist that the resolution shall embrace all the persons employed in these different places, for there is no reason in the world why oshould not be included. There is a large number of poor women employed in the Government Printing Office, some 160, who only receive from 25 to 50 dollars per month for their services. They have made most pathetic appeals to me to include them in this resolution, as though I had entire control of the matter, and it was not in any way the action of the committee; but it was the decision of the majority of the committee that these persons ought not to be included.