Mr. WILDIAMS. Mr. Chairman, as I am responsible for this debate in having moved the amendment yesterday, it may perhaps be i.for me to submit one or 2 remarks before the vote is taken. I wish to say that in moving the amendment I was not influenced by the intolerance of the Papal Government, Although it might add force to the argument in favor of the discontinuance of our Present mission to that Court. The same objection might be taken to any further continuance of our diplomatic relations with Peru on account of the refusal of funeral rites to a deceased British minister. It was on the score of the political insignifi. cance of the Papal Government that I moved the amendment. I never could understand the reason for this mission. There might have been some ground for it when the Pope exercised temporal jurisdiction over all of the Roman States, but he has not any such juris diction now, being “sealed up, ” as I believe he is, in the city of Rome by the kingdom of Italy. And if he is confined to the city of Rome our relations there now are purely spir itual and not diplomatic; not political, unless intended for the benefit of a particular church and a particular party. And looking at it in this aspect it would be just as reasonable to send an embassador to the Court of the Grand Lama of Thibet, who, perhaps, has more devotees than the head of the Court of Rome; or it might be more sensible to send an embassador to the little republic of SanMarine in Italy, which remains as an oasis in that great waste, as I may call it. I do not know what may be the occupation of our minister at Rome unless it be of a spir itual character. He may turn it, perhaps, into a pastoral life, as I Presume he has nothing to do, and he may. tempted to say with the shepherd in the 1st Eclogue of Virgil, who waked the sylvan echoes with his pipes: “Et qua fuit Roman tibi causavidendi’” I ask what has this Government to do at Rome? Nothing that I can see. Here the hammer fell] he CHAIRMAN stated that under the order of the House the debate was exhausted.