Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. My friend says he will be satisfied with 2 of them, and that will leave 8 for my honorable friendfrom Massachusetts. [Renewed laughter.] Herc, Mr. Chairman, are only 19 new officers, whom we propose to pay out of the public Treasury, when we hear a clamor all over the House, on this side and the other, “No more new officers, no increase of salaries. This is the time for retrenchmentand reform.” Yet. at one fell swoop we are asked to provide for the appointment of 19 new otheers and to pay them out of the public Treasury. For what? Why are we to tax our constituents? Why are we to tax the whole people of the U.S.? Why, sir, to pay these men who want to go abroad at the public expense and have goods, wares, and merchandise of private individuals transported free of cost to foreign countries. Mr. Chairman, it might be a good thing to have a representative at Paris during the time of this Exposition. If we could only appoint my distinguished friendfrom Massachusetts I would say, amen. I might then turn in and help his bill through, for he, with his intelli gence, with his suavity of manner, with his splendid deportment, would do us infinite credit at the French court. [Laughter] Why, sir, with a swallow tail coat, a white choker, and tight breechcs he would flourish in the sulmts of the Tuileriesequal to any Frenchman in all Paris. [Renewed lauvhteiz] It would, in deed, be a very grand thing to be there at the Government expense. After a comfortable stroll in the morning he could go and take his breakfast at the Irois Freres Provencals." or at Dufours, or at Verys in the Yalais Royal, which property I believe they tell us once belonged to the rotten old Duke of Or leans, Philippe Egalite as he called himself in the Revolution; and he could dine, too, at the Maison Doree on the Boulevard des Italiennes; and in the evening he could waltz with the little misses in their teens at the Chateau des Fleurs or the Jardin dHer. [Laughterl and from thence he could go to the Cafe Angluis and get apelit souper. [Laughter] Further than that, there are other and iiobler things for a man to go to Paris to see, particularly at the public expense. He could go out to the galleries at Versailles and look at the magnificent paintings of all the greatest artists and which illustrate every great event in the history of France from the earliest days. He could go, sir, to the Place de la Concorde, for merly the Place de la Revolution, where the best blood of France ran in torrents during the Revolution. He could wander through the Boulevards. He could visit the Place de la Bastile. He could go to the Jardin des Plantes and to StCloud. In the evening he could pass out through the grand Are da Triom he and take a leasant little airing in the ois Boulogne. e could wander around and look at all the places famous in French history. He could enter the prison of the Conciergeric, where the Girondists, the most gifted and eloquent and generous men in all France, were incarcerated before they were brought to the revolutionary tribunal, and he could see where, after they were guillotined, their headless trunks were buried in pine boxes at a cost of 22 franes each to the republic! Sir, who would not go to France at the public expense?