Mr. SUMNER. That is a proposition to appropriate $117,000 for the ventilation of this room. If we are to continue in this room I should like to have it ventilated; but I think that so large an outlay of money is out of place for that object. I think, as I said yesterday, we ought to go further and do something bet ter. I am not willing, for one, to pay $117,000 merely to stay in this gilded cage where we are kept. I will pay more in order to change the room entirely. I think that the committee has made a mistake. They will pardon me; I do not intend really any criticism; but I think they have made a mistake in trying to refashion this room. That is the object of this large appropriation, $117,000, more y for the ventilation of this impossible Chamber; for when it is ventilated it is not a proper Chamber for the Senate of the U.S. I hope, therefore, that instead of appropriating $117,000 to ventilate this room, we shall appropriate perhaps a larger sum to make a more thorough change. In this matter I am in earnest. I feel that we shall make a mistake if we invest more money in this apartment. The object of the proposition of the Senator is a further investment of money in these walls by which we are enesged. I will invest to take the walls down, but I am unwilling to pay more to keep these walls in their place. I am not able to present a plan as a substitute for that of the Senfrom Pennsylvania. I have neverpresented this subject to any.' tect or person who was able to make a report as an architect upon it; but I should like to have the whole question submitted to a proper person or a proper committee with a view to a practical result. As I tried to any last night, there were 2 objects at which I would aim. One would be to bring the Chamber right out in connection with the open air, and the other would be to diminish the size of the Chamber. I would reduce it by one half. For instance, a Chamber that wouI'd be left by running a line from the main door to the chair of the President, I think would be nmple for all the business of the Senate. We should be more comfortable in it. Public business would be transacted more advantageously. For instance, what we are now engaged upon today would be attended to much better than in this large room. Since the discussion last night, I have been reminded of a saying by one of the best of the early English writers, old Fuller, which you will find in his proverbs.