Mr. KASSON. I have done my best to enable my friendfrom Ohio [Mr. LAWRENCE] to understand this resolution, I be c now I shall enable him really to comprehen its purpose. If he had spent weeks and months in examination of the history of this question in this country, the report of Jclferson, the recommendation of Madison, the action of scientific bodies at home and abroad. the action of foreign Governments upon the subject, all of which have been considered by the committee that instructed me to report this resolution, he would then know that there is no one subject that can come before an international or other congress that has more important relations to the commercial and social intercourse of the world than this one; and that it is:1.question whether money shavers shall actually accumu late enormous fortunes in every country of the world, at the unnecessary cest of travelers and traders, and whether we shall be able to know when we draw a bill on a foreign country how much we are paying for it and how much we get by it. I assure him and the members of this House that the question is one the importance of which increases every hour with the increasing intercourse of the world. 2ndly, I say that we have not a solitary commissioner yet a pointed to Paris, nora law authorizing one. that measure may fail. God forbid that it should fail; but whether it fails or succeeds it is absolutely necessary that there should be authority of law to designate a special commissioner who shall have what these other special commissioners have not, diplo matic authority to negotiate upon this subject with which he is charged. The commissioners to be appointed by the bill that formerly passed the House are to be selected among manufacturers and agriculturists and all practical classes of the cOmmunity; but we want to send some one who is acquainted with the general history of coinage of this country and of the world, who knows the properproportion between the precious metals and alloy, who knows the systems prevailing in different countries, and who can properly negotiate, and by authority, with the several Governments concerned. This the other commissioners are not and ought not to have authority to do. Now it becomes aquestion whether we shall take the recommenation of Jefferson and Adams and all the distinguished men who have sought this great desideratum, as regards the commercial intercourse of the world, and appoint a special commissioner without salary, or whether this most important object shall be defeated by a single objection.