Mr. FESSENDEN. My impression is that it is not necessary to do that. I think we cannot settle that here. One is necessarily avery expensive work; it consists in a very great degree of plates, photographs, and things of that sort. A part of the Surgeon Generafs report cannot be done at the Printing Office: that will have to be done under the direction of the surgeon General himself. That which will have to be done elsewhereinvolves a very large portion of the expenses. Like all anatomical and medical works, showing bones, diseases, &c. it must be full ofillustrntions from plates; and at the Surgeon Generafs oliicc they have been finding artists among the soldiers themselves and preparing that matter, and it must necessarily involve great expense. I do not believe that $300,000 will meet the whole expense of it. This, on the contrary, is a collection of facts and tables. It is not more expensive than other printing. I do not believe it will require the style of printing that the other report, that of the Surgeon General, does. It is, as the honorable Senfrom Vermont has stated, a collection of facts showing the physical power of the country from the description of the men. I have seen some of these tables; they are very interesting and got up with a great deal of skill. It must be some time before these publications will begin to any considerable extent, and at the next session of Congress, if it is thought proper to connect the 2 works together, it can be done; but I apprehend that we should make a mistake now in declaring that this work of Dr. Baxter shall be done in the same style with that of the Sur conGeneral. They are works of an entirely ifferent and distinct character. The ComFinance thought that under the circumstances it was a mere matter of justice to this young man, who is a very able young man, and a very excellent young man, and has devoted his days and his nights to this work, that just on the eve of completing his labors it should not be taken out of his hands and go to swell the already high and exalted reputation of others, to whom, perhaps, reputation is not of so much consequence as it is to him. Under these circumstances the ComFinance unanimously came to the conclusion that this appropriation ought to be made in this way. I think it is a just conclusion, and I hope the Senate will ado tit. h