Mr. WASHBURNE. of Illinois. That would depend upon circumstances. I do not think my friendfrom Massachusetts is very extrava gant. They can live ver chepfily in Paris. But, sir, to go on a litt e. are is a provision in the bill that strikes me as most singular: 4th. For the erection of my ture which may become necessary for the proper exhibition of any of the material products of the U.S. the sum of 950.000: Provided, That 1/2 the cost of said structure shall be assessed upon the owners.proprietors or exhibitors of the articles and products for the exbibition of which it is erected, and goodand sufficient guarantees taken for the reimbursoment thereof to the Treasury of the U.S. That isamost extraordinary provision. We are acting here, as I underst the Gentfrom Massachusetts [Mr. BANKS] to say, under apolite invitation from the French Government, and it is a polite Government. Sir, you are invited to be present, as the guests in a measure, and in the presence of the French nation and participate in this grand exhibition and when we get there does the gentleman say that we are to be taxed rent for the room we occupy at the Exhibition? I do not believe that can be so, for it is not in character with the French people. Is that the way my distinguished friendfrom Massachusetts invites his neighbors and friends into his magnificent chateau in the good old town of Waltham? [Laughter] Does he ask his guests to pay rent for the room they occupy when they visit him? and permit me to say to my friend, I have a great regard for Waltham. It is the birthlace of my maternal grandfather. [Renewed aughter.] and let me here remark in passing that this puts me in mind of an incident that happened the other day in a discussion, when the gentleman [Mr. Buss] said I had taunted NewEngland. Sir, that is not so. I never taunted NewEngland. She is my mother and I love her because she is my mother and it is because I would see NewEngland great and glorious, and reaching the position which she is entitled to in the face of all mankind, that I sometimes, as a NewEngland man and proud of my own native State of Maine, venture to suggest that she is not always as liberal and just to other sections as she should be and the gentlemans colleague [Mr. took particular ainsto tellthe {ouse nnAdLtoLEYtc1l New.ngland that I was opposed to everything from that section. That was a strange statement to be madeby that gentleman when he was using his official position in behalfof n gigantic NewEngland interest, and if the spirit of his measure should by carried out it would crush a vital interest 8 million people in the Northwest. I mean the obstruction of the navi gption of that great highway of commerce, the ississippi river, by the building of bridges which interfere with the navigation, and then legalizing them by not of Congress, closin up the great natural channels of transit, an making all our people tributary to the railroads alone which are now devouring their substance. Then for expenses at Paris and NewYork as the commissioners may direct $5,000 is appropriated. Sir, who are these commissioners, and how is this money to be exended, and for what particular purpose? where is the reonsibility? To whom do they make returns? e are voting away the public money with no guarantees from anybody and now I come to the amendment which the Gentfrom Massachusetts [Mr. BANKS] proposes to introduce, and I ask the attention of the committee while I read it and they will see how $48,000 more is to go:. To provide necessary furniture and fixtures for the properexhibition of articles and products of industry of the U.S. according to the plan of the imperial commissionersin that part of the building extlusively assigned to the use of the U.S. 848.000 This is in the same line I have referred to, paying by the Government the expenses of private individuals in furthering their own interests and now I come to that section in the original bill, the language of which the gentleman proposes somewhat to change, but not I think very materially. This section was too extraordinary oven for the capacious demands of the chairman of the ComForAffrs. It directed, at the request of the Sec reta of State, that the SecyNavy should furnish one or more pYiiblie vessels for the transportation from NewYork to France, and return, of such articles as might be offered under the direction of the commissioners at NewYork for exhibitiOn at Paris and the SecyNavy was authorized to transfor from the general naval appropriation to the account of the Exposition at Paris any expense necessarily incurred in preparin vessels assigned to this duty for receiving and transferring articles and products intended for exhibition. That, 1 say, was too much even for the capacious demand of the chairman of the ComForAffrs; so he has qualified it to a very little extent, but not may terially. According to the amendment which the gentleman proposes, the POTUS, instead of the SecyNavy, is authorized and requested to furnish one or morepublic vessels for the transportation from NewYork to France of such articles and products of industry of the U.S. About all there is of it is the change from the Navy Dept to the President. I will here ask to have read a letter from the SecyNavy in which he treats of this subject, and in which he says that in order to carry out the provisions of the original measure as proposed by the gentleman it would cost $300,000. That amount, added to the $100,000 directly appropriated, would make it, as I stated, $400,000.