Mr. NYE. If this question were presented today for the 1st time, I think I should be opposed to the appropriation now asked for; but it seems to me we have gone so far, this body itself has one so far, that now it would be impolitic anfunwise to take any backward steps. I think this Exhibition is more important to this country than some of the Senators who have spoken in opposition to the appropriation conceive it to be. Vast amounts of money are expended in printing and publishing through newspapers and pamphlets information as to the products of 1/2 of this continent. One halfof this continent is a mineral producing country. We are striving by all nieansglaudable to brin that fact proml nently to the knowledge oft e world. We are anxious to show, especially to the Governments of the earth that will be convened at this Exhibition, that we have as a whole the richest mineral producing country in the world. It is important to the nation to establish that fact for reasons which are so perfectly evidentthat it is hardly necessary to recount them. It is a truth that we look to some of the nations that will be there convened for money upon loan, &c., to sustain our credit. Establish the fact show them the minerals; show them the rock from which this gold and silver is extracted; let them see it with their own eyes, and it will do more to establish the credit of this Government than 20 agents sent out for the purpose to talk, write, or print. It is important to this country in another asgect. I believe that we have the highest order of mechanical genius that the world produces. I am not, at all afraid of the comparisons that will be instituted between the handi work of our mechanical skill and that of an or all the nations there represented. I think it is due to us in that aspect that this Exhibition should be attended by us as a nation; and if we are to be there represented as a nation, we should be represented with a beeomin munificence that pertains to the dignity an character of this nation. If it is necessary to construct a building for that purpose, I think the nation ought to do it, and have as good a one as there is there, and let the world see that, notwithstandin our internal dissensions, we have yet the vrgor, the elasticity, the power, the stren h, to cope in any branch of industry that will e there represented with any country in the world. I think we have gone so for that we are committed on this subject: and if we are to send our manufactures and our various articles there for exhibition, let them be so exhib ited as at least to do justice to the articles that are there exhibited. Let it be done in that spirit of enterprise which characterizes us. Let us not cripple our manufactures or anything thut may e there represented for want of ample space commensurate with the power and dignity of this people. 1 hope, sir, that these appropriations will be made. The Senfrom Iowa says that he doubts the propriet of taxing our people for such a purpose as t is. The propriety of many of our acts may be doubted; but in my candid judgment that class of people that, bear the most of the burdens of taxation wrll receive the greatest benefit from this Exhibition. I want to see the fact established there that we have the best farming and agricultural implements in the world. I want the fact established that my friendfrom RhdIsland [Mrl Srsxcur] can manufacture better cotton cloth than they can in Europe; and I want to give him the chance to exhibit it. Iwant the mechanics of the world to take notice that the machinery made here, the skill of American industry, is better than any other in the world; and in order to do iIt want to give the means of exhibiting it on a fair, liberal, ample scale. Sir, we have invited the individua enterprise of the nation to of there by accepting the invitation to attendgthis Exhibition, and the effect upon that individual enterprise will be disastrous if we are where we are, and do not go forward and furnish the means for them to exhibit the handiwork of their skill. 1 hope my friendfrom Iowa will not conceive tllie idea. that under the pending amendment we are going to purchase real estate at Paris. It is simply proposed to rear a little structure, temporary in its character, in which to exhibit the handiwork of his countrymen and mine; and when the Exhibition is over the necessity for the structure thus to be reared will cease. Our agents there will see that the lumber is well sold, and that we shall be none the poorer on account of it; but I do think as a nation we shall be infinitely richer when this Exhibition is held.