Mr. MCDOUGALL. Mr. President, I dislike much the term “charity” that is used by the Senfrom Massachusetts. It is a word of “fame when sp en on such an occasion and about such business offense to the person who is the subject of our business. This is not charity. It has been the custom of all cultivated States, from old antiquity, through the middle ages, and to the present day, to culti vate high art illustrating their own people and institutions, and to'encourage their own home artists. Where high genius is found, it has been the office of great States to cultivate the developmentof thatgenius. Didit not require the wealth and power of princes to develop the genius of Michael Angelo, and Titian, and Guido? It was so in past times; it has been so in our time; and we have undertaken to maintain the policy of a great State and to cultivate art, among other things. The Em Eeror of Russia gets the 1st artist there is in urope to paint his battle fields and takes him up to StPetersburg. The Emperor of France competes with him. All the States of Europa nrsue the same policy; and for what? To illustrate their national history and their national qualities; and they have particularly encouraged historical paintings; indeed, a great picture is a history; so is a great statue a his vtory. It is the policy of this Government, a great Government, to cultivate the same talents in our OWn country. I am conlideut that this young lady possesses genius. She has exhib ited it. Her bust of Mr. Lincoln is the only one that does justice to him. There are plenty of them about; we have seen 100s of the m, but hers is the only one that has reproduced Mr. Lincoln as he lived. She has had the genius to do it; and it requires genius to do it; and young geninsis just as good as old genius, and sometimes a little better. I believe Napoleon was a genius when he was young; Alexander died when he was young; and a great many other people accomlished great results when they were boys and, girls. Pitt when a mere boy, 24 years of age, was Prime Minister of England. The idea that because a person is young and has notattended the schools of Germany and France he or she is not fitted for a work of this kind is a false notion. On yonder wall pointing in the direction of the painting of the storming of ChapuRepec on the wall leadin to the gentleman’s gallery] is a picture painted by a man who never took a lesson in drawing, who never took a lesson in penciling. He sat alongside ofine as a boy at school on the banks of the North river; and he is now acknowleged to be the best battle painter there is in the world.