Mr. CONNESS. There are one or 2 as pects of this case as presented by the honorable Senfrom Massachusetts that I do not feel like letting pass without remark. When this subject was called up heretofore in the Senate that Senator rose in his place and offered, not what is regarded as legitimate parliamentary opposition, but he joined in a cry to consider the pension bills. “Consider the pension bills; do not turn your backs to the widows and orphans of this war and vote away j the public money for nothing.” the pension bills, ” said the Senator. Ming Well, resident, the pension bills have been considered, and the measure is called up again, and the Senator, the great Senfrom Massachusetts, rises in his place and begins an opposition to this measure by arraigning the Son ate; arraigning me and every other Senator here. How, sir? He reminds us that last evening and the evening before he presented an application here in behalf of worthy public servants and that we refused to make the appropriation, and that the appropriation that he asked for was equal in amount to the appropriation that we were now about to made m the most wasteful manner. N ow, Mr. President, the English of all this is, that the Senfrom Massachusetts, in his capacity of chairman of the Committee on Foreign ltelations, has endeavored toingraft upon both appropriation bills, the miscellaneous apprOpriation bill, and then upon the deficiency bill, a proposition to pay the clerks in the State Dept nn extra sum for their services and we refused to agree to it. The Senator did not state truly he will pardon me for using that word why the Senate refused to accept his proposition. It was because the proposition was sought to beingrafted upon the appropriation hills, and because Senators could not no matter how they might concede that the clerical force of the State Dept deserved an increase of compensation vote it without at the same time accepting a like proposition for the clerical force of the War Dept, of the Navy Dept, and of the Treasury Dept. Why, sir, a committee of clerks from the War Dept came here and called upon me within the last 2 days half of whom were on crutches. Their a peal was hard to be resisted. lfa bill should be introduced into Congress to provide additional compensation for those men I should vote for it with the greatest possible pleasure, but we could notingraft it upon appropriation bills. The Senators having charge of those bills reminded us again and a ain that to load them down was to destroy and lose them; and this was the reason why the Senator’s proposition was not received by the Senate, which in candor the Senator should have stated. But he passes from that argument of the Senate to a very elegant presentation of art, and he makes that picture look really beautiful and elegant in our view; for what purpose? For the cruel pnr use of making a contrast with this young la y who comes before us that we may patronize her; for the purpose of do uouncing this appropriation as being made to an unworthy person, to one not an artist, as a charity. Sir, the great Senator did himself but little credit, in my opinion, when he ar rai ned this poor girl before this great forum on denounced this measure as an act of charity. If it were so, his great heart should have called upon him to have covered it with his mantle, and not uncovered it here in this public presence. It was not becoming, in my hum blejudgment. Again, Mr. President, the Senator should concede something to his colleagues in this body. No member of this body, I apprehend, is more proud than I am when lean agree with the Senator and support him in his views and measures; and I am very happy to say on this occasion that I generally can agree with the Senator; but the Senator owes in return for those agreements, in comity, that we shall not be arraigned here by him and accused of a spirit of wastefulness simply because we cannot a rec with the Senator. Mr. President, why should he denounce in advance and condemn this girl because she asks that her efforts in art shall be patronized? How does he know that she cannot produce a statue? How can he tell? The money tobe spent had better be thrown awayif so, and the Senator have waited before be pronounced his great condemnation against the early and difficult efforts of one endeavoring to rise and progress in so difficult a Path.' We were reminded by the Senator that we had better he just before we are generous. Well, Mr. President, it is well to be just. Jus tice is a great attribute; and so is generosity. I fear that in the name of justicc all of us enact our greatest crnelties. I fear it is so. I can say for myself that whenever I am enabled to take a retrospective glance at my life and look down the path that I have come by, there is nothing along it that shines out to me so beau tifully as the little generous acts that my rec ollection enables me to see as having been done. I would not blot them out if Iwere called upon, as between them and all the other acts of my life. We are here acting in a public capacity. “'0 each, I up rehend, endeavor to do ourduty. I believe we 0 it; but I would not exchange, as I said before, those little acts that the world forgets, that ourselves forget (as we should very often mostly) for all else put together. And my idea of the great Senator'from Massachusetts (by which name I am very proud to call him and which is so well deserved) is that he is never so great as when he rises and speaks in behalf of generosity, of humanity, when he exhibits to us the intellect and the affections in that happy commingling that is the sweet est and the most beautiful rule of human life and action.