Mr. MORRILL. Mr. Chairman, when this question was up before, I made some comments in relation to the conduct of the office of the ComrAg, and in the course of my remarks I stated that the cost of the printing of the monthly periodical amounted to a large sum, and I made the state Iment, perhaps, in rather a sweeping manner. did not know at that time how much it did amount to, nor do I now. Since that time I have, however, made inquiries, and I find that the Commissioner claims that the printing does not cost over $10,000. I am persuaded that he is mistaken, for the late Superintendent of the Public Printing Office told me it might frieftaych for printing, paper, folding, &c., 40 or 1,000 dollars. have no personal hostility against this learned and distinguished officer. He is I believe a very amiable gentleman. I am actu ated only by a desire to have this bureau continued and managed with such success that the country shall approve of it. Now, since this gentleman has held this office I.think there have been $500,000 approwhich he hasoand what has e to show for it? I admit that the annual reports are among the best we have ever had; but they are bought and paid for at the rate of 5 dollars a page, as I understand. He also has among his subordinates some very compe tent men. I give him credit for zeal and enthu siasm in his position; but I think the place might be better filled. And, sir, beside this $500,000 already alluded to, and beside the cost of F.this monthly periodical, there is the whole cost of printing the annual reports and various other documents. They are bound, too, at the public expense, and some of them rather expensively bound and distributed. But, Mr. Chairman, I alluded also to the fact that the business of this office has not been conducted always with the highest order or system, and that has been proven by the fact that he has sometimes, after spending all we appropriated, called for appropriations to meet large, deficiencies. When we appropriate a certain sum for a certain purpose, if I am not misinformed, he expends it either for that purpose or for any other which he sees fit. For instance, we appropriated for the propagating garden $10, 800, and he is reported to have expended $12,000. We appropriated for contingencies $3, 500, and I am led to believe that he spent under that head $6, 650. We approriated for seeds and cost of putting them up, c., $54,000, and he expended $66,000; so I have been told. He buys most of the seeds in Philadelphia at 2nd hand, though some are his own importations, at an expense of about 28,000 dollars, and then, if I am correctly informed and if not the chair man of the ComAg will correct me for putting up those same seeds he expended over 44,000 dollars, when they would have been put up in any respectable seed store probably for half the money. This distinguished gentleman is in the receipt of a salary of $3,000. He has one son, entirely worthy so far as I know, who is in the receipt of a salary of $2,000, and another who has a salary of $1, 600. He has one nephew who has a salary of $1, 400, and another who has a salary of $1,000. These may all be excellent officers for aught I know; but besides this, he owns a horse an excellent horse very likely which the Government has to support, and a carriage which is said to be used exclusively for his own benefit, and for which the Government has been charged within the last 3 years the sum of $3,000 the Government charged one dollar a day for the use and 25 dollars a month for the keep of his horse. I do not charge any corruption; it may be all proper; but I think it shows enough of the Yankee in the Quaker to take care of his own. Beside all this, he has 7 rooms in the Patent Office building, and in addition to that hires 2 or 3 rooms out side paying $6$1, 200 rental one of which I believe is used on Sundays for a church, and I have been informed the chairs or the fix tures of that church are supplied by the government. I do not find fault with this. It may be a proper charity if the permission of Congress E. not been asked. But, Mr. Chairman, I only rose to call the attention of the House to the propriety of reducing the appropriation as proposed. [the hammer fell]