Mr. SAULSBURY. Mr. President, I shall say nothing in reference to the amendment proposed by the honorable Senfrom Iowa. capnot vote for it certainly, because I do not see its relevancy to the resolution under consideration. I should be opposed to saying to the Emperor of France, " Provided you with draw your troops from Mexico, we will send you lriendly messages." I do not propose any such bargain as that to so distinguished a personage. I wish, however, to make one remark upon the resolution. While I am not hostile to the objects and purposes of this Jomt resolution, [Jeannot vote for it unless the honorable Senfrom NewYork can inform me where Congress gets the constitutional authority to make this appropriation. It is no answer to say that Congress heretofore has made appropriations of this character. Where, let me ask, is the constitutional authority in Congress to appropriate money for the purpose l of sending articles of manufacture, or any other articles, to Paris to be put upon exhibition? Is the power of Congress over the Treasury omnipotent, so that they can appropriate the public mone for any and for every purpose whatever? sthere no limitation upon that poweras to the objects and purposes of the appropriation? Can they make an appropriation to have an exhibition of wild or tame animals at any point in the U.S or i any point beyond the limits of the U.S.? If you have got the power under the Constitution to appropriate money out of the public Treasury for an object of this kind, you have got the power to appropriate money out of the public Preasur to have annual agricultural fairs, annual exibitions of stock raised in the U.S., and the power to send specimens of those stocks to foreign countries for exhibition. Iwill not argue the question. It seems to me the mere presentation of the case is sufficient. Sir, we have gone far enough in this species of legislation, in holding that we have absolute control over the public purse, and that we may empty out its contents into the in of anybody and of everybody; anywhere an ev erywhere, for any and forevery purpose. It is time such legislation should stop.