Mr. CHANLER. The purpose of this proposed commission is to one le the SecyInterior, if in his opinion it may be necessary, to apoint a commission of experts. who shall go toIaris on behalf of the Patent Office of this Government to examine and take the properdrawin or photographa of the patented machines which may he exhi ited at the coming Exposition of1867. The practical result of this commission will be to enlarge the records of the Patent Office, so as to enable the ComrPatents to decide upon the merits of the claims presented to him for patents in this country. Under the existing law, unless the Patent Office of this count has full and sufficient information in regar to foreign patents, any person bringing here copies and models of foreign patents may obtain patents here, although such patents may exist at that very moment abroad. All will understand that at the exosition at Paris there will be exhibited a urge number of patented machines; and persons may take copies of them and obtain patents for themselves in this country if the Patent Office here is deficient in properinformation upon the subject of patents in orei 11 countries. Another point is that the character of this commission, which will be appointed from among the experts and mechanical men of this country, will be such as to warrant us in believing that the information they will obtain will be of the greatest practical value to me chanical men in this country, as well as of interest to scientific men all ever the world and it will enable the ComrPatents to lay before the country a full, accurate, and value le report, one which will be of the greatest value to the mechanical interests of this country. That is the whole scope and purpose of this JtResolution. In regard to the money which is called for by this JtResolution, the amount can be changed if the House shall think it necessary. The ComPatents are not committed to any sum; they have merely named this sum, because there must be some amount provided for expenses.