Mr. KELLEY. I agree to every suggestion made by the Gentfrom NewYork [Mr. LAFLIN which 1 goes to the end of true economy. But I think beginning retrenchment with the Mechanical Report is beginning at the least properpoint, taking in view the whole range of public printing. represent a district in which there are immense machineshops, works of engineering, &c., and there is not an apprentice boy in my district that does not value the Mechanical Report and does not study it. There is no book sent out by this Government which does so much to improve the condition and prombte the Welfare of the whole community as the Mechanical Report. We have to compete with cheap labor, and we do it by the force of ideas and if the British or the French Government disseminated knowledge upon the subject of patents and inventions as Wedo, we would have a more difficult competition to qvercome than we now have. After the Worlds Fair at London, the ridi cule and odium thrown theretofore upon our country by the Times, Punch, and allt ejour nals of Europe, were completely wiped out by declarations made by them that europe had gathered more ideas from the American Dept of that Exhibition than from all the rest. It was owing to our patents, inventions, and contrivances the knowledge of which this report of the Patent Office carries to ouringe nious peo.le, that those foreign journals were led to may ie that significant a mission. They are welcomed in every workshop, and studied by every apprentice. You will find them in our drawingse hools, for purposes of instruction, and I venture to say that there is not a gentleman on this floor, the conveniences of whose home, and the methods of whose business have not been improved and facilitated by the distribution of these Mechanical Reports. Though I represent in part an agricultural district, and have a demand for 300 or 400 of the Agricultural Report, since this session commenced I have gladly exchanged 2 copies of the Agricultural Report for one copy of the Mechanical Report to send to the engineers and onng men in my district who want them to educate them for their business. I do not ask that the number of the A rieul tural Report shall be reduced; but I do ask that much of the extravagant printing of this Government shall be done away with. The Gentfrom Iowa [Mr. GRINNELL] has very properly called attention to one item, this “ Or der of Business.” All these 18 pages could be dispensed with, and the whole of it put on one page, and then be easily read by anyone of us without our spectacles. Let us attend to such extravagances as those before we strike out the only means we have of stim ulating and educating the rising genius of the country in the mechanic arts.