Mr. GRIMES. Well, I do not think they do. That is my opinion. Now, what was the remedy? The ComContingent Expenses believed that it was their duty to furnish some remedy. They believed and I think I was the 1st one that proposed it, andI therefore am willing to take all the responsibility in that c onnection I believe that it was our interest to do exactly as I would do under similar circumstances. If I was the proprietor of a large institution like this, in which there was an expenditure of $300,000, or $400,000, or $500,000 a 'ear, I should employ some one man to make all the purchases for me some man in whom I could place implicit confidence, and not allow the purchases to be made by Tom, Dick, and Harry, and halfa dozen agents of mine, some with express authority and some with no authority at all. The committee concurred with me in that opinion, and hence it is that we have propose that there shallbe one purchasing agent. Now, I understand that the amendment propos d by the Senfrom Missouri [Mr. news] would change this provision which we recommend and allow these purchases to be made by the Sergeant at Arms, whose office was created for no such purpose; whohas enough to do to look after the police of the Senate; who is required in some instances to leave this body entirely and go away in order to execute the processes of the Senate; sometimes to accompany committees of the bod and therefore cannot attend to business oft liS kind; and who ought not, under any circumstances, in my opinion, to be the man employed for the discarge of any such duty is business is, as I say, as the executive officer of this body, and he should be occupying the seat which we have selected for him, and which his predecessors have occupied for the last 70 years. I have not got the bill before me, and I am not able to go through it and analyze it, as the Senfrom Missouri and the Senfrom Pennsylvania are far better able to do than I am. t will be observed that the amendment offered by the Senfrom Ohio, for which the proposition of the Senfrom Missouri is a substitute, is based upon the House sala ries. As an example, be prooses to give the Ser eant at Arms $3, 600. here is not the slightest analogy between the organizations of the House and the Senate. The Sergeant at Arms in the House is the disbursing officer of the House. He keeps the money; he gives bonds; he pays the compensation and mileage of the members of the puse; and hence it is that in the HoRep a larger compensation has been awarded to the Ser geant at'Arms than probably would have been awarded to him if he had merely the authority to diseha e the same kind of duties that are devolved y law upon the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate.