Mr. STEVENS. The gentleman is not mistaken. We have already appropriated $30,000 for furnishing the Presidents House. It is properthat I should say, under the circumstances, that heretofore thesum usually appropriated for furnishing the Presidents House upon the incoming of an Administration has been $20,000. There has always been a small deficiency, however. In Mr. Buchanans timeit was $4,000. In the case of Mr. Lincoln, owing to the dilapidations, itwas something more, ten or 15,000 dollars. Then, in the last Congress, we voted $30,000, but the bill failed, and we have repeated the appropriation this year. But. owing to the confusion that took place after the death of the President and the ongeontinued sickness of his wife, the house was left a prey to almost everybody that chose to go there, and it was found upon examination, when Mr. Johnson was about to take possession of the house, that scarcely anything was left, and that it required not only the $30,000, but upon a full estimate of what is wanted, made y the ComrPubBldg under the direction of the inmates of the house, it was found that to restore matters as they were and to add the usual ornaments and furniture, it will require $46,000 more. It was found, after the $80,000 were appropriated, that there had already been expen ed$42,000, and that the sum it propriated was not only absorbed. but some 12,000 more, and the house was still an furnished. The servants and everybody had access to the house during the fate. period to which I have referred, for about 6 weeks, and I may say that it was open for anybody to plunder it that chose to go there. The result was that almost all the valuable furniture in the house was missing; and when the present president came in it was found necessary, even before he could be entertained with a single meal, that spoons should be bought in this city for the purpose of furnishing his table; that linen, sheets, bedding, and all those things were necessary, and even the beds themselves. It was found that the house was in the cus tody of nobody. The steward who was there waswesponsible. But it was found that these goods had been taken everywhere. They went to be tracedI will not say among the employe s; but they were gone; they were not to be found. It is enough for us to now that the things were not the w, and it is due to the present President and his family to say that their estimates of what is needed have been made, in myjiidgment, on the most economical scale consistent with the dignity of the nation. We find that less than this sum will not suffice. There is some $15,000 unpaid after appropriating the whole of the $30,000. Itrnst that enough has been said to show to the House the necessity of this appropriation, and that it will he made without objection.