Mr. GRINNELL. I have said that I should not follow the Gentfrom Illinois in the discussion of any such matters. I was saying, when interrupted, that the invitation of the French nation was as considerate and hearty as could be asked. It is cordial, and is worthy of our attention. We should not forget our ancient friendship with France, the nation which sentus LaFayette, whose portrait, Mr. Speaker, is upon your left, while that of Washington, the Father of his Country, who loved him so much, is upon your right. they stand there in token of the long friendship of the Father of his Country for our great and tried friend, and of the union between the 2 nations. We have nothing but kind feelings for that country. In peace we are friends. Let it be remembered, too, that when the emperor opened the last Legislative assembly e reoiced that we were once more at peace; and c had a tear to shed in sympathy with us for the loss of our martyred President. It becomes as to accept his words as sincere, and I regard the invitation which has been sent to us as being well meant, and as one which ought to receive at our hands a prompt and cordial response. Now, sir, in regard to this bill I wish to say, ifI understand the chairman of the ComForAffrs, the amendments which I will offer at the propertime will meet with his a proval. I propose to amend so that there shall be a reduction of the number of scientific commissioners from ten to 5, and that they shall be distributed throughout the country so that this may not be said to be a bill for Massachusetts or NewYork, or any city or section. I propose, further, that the States shall meet the expenses of these commissioners, if that is an objection, and that they shall not be imposed upon the General Government. I nderstand the gentleman to agree to my modications. I understand the Gentfrom Illinois to assert this involves an expenditure of $400,000. 1 deny that; his figures are fictions. It involves an expense of 90 or a 100,000 dollars. That certainly is a great sum, but it is not a qn arterthe sum we struck off from the appropriation bills for fortifications yesterday. It is a sum that, if distributed among the American people, would be 3 mills to eachperson. Why, sir, when you talk about expend iture, if one million people in this country who take their morning riu I or cigars would cut 05 one drink or one cigar, the amount saved in one day would pay this whole appropriation. Let them accept the alternative and buy one cigar less or one drink less for a single day, and we have $100,000 to be appropriated toward carrying out this great enterprise of meeting the nations of the earth in one of the grandest conventions for peace and improvement. The Gentfrom Illinois [Mr. WASHBBURNS] cited the fact in regard to proprietors of American machines payin their own expenses. I thought it wasavery unortunate illustration. I can tell the gentlemans constituents, as I can tell mine, that it would have been better if they had gone to the Government for aid in paying their expenses. Now, sir, I happen to have purchased mowing machines in my farming, and I believe that the expenses which the proprietor incurred properly belonged to the General Government, and yet he bore them himself, when if they had been borne equally by the cat commercial cities of Boston, NewYork, Philadelphia, and others, the burden would have rested less heavily upon the farmers of the gentlemans constituents and mine. The world had the benefit of the in vention, but undoubted] many of them the least able paid for the exibition. Sir, I will not undertake to follow the Gentfrom Massachusetts [Mr. Baxxsfi in his statements of what this country is likely to do at this Exhibition. I agree with him in all the facts. But I believe it will be shown that the U.S. can manufacture printing presses as no other nation of the earth can. I expect that we shall exhibit reapers and mowers, as we have hitherto, superior to any the world can produce. I believe that we shall convince the world that the great staple of this country, cotton, which they have been endeavoring to equal for the last 5 years through out the glo e, is beyond comparison the best in the world, showing conclusively that here the throne of King Cotton is to abide forever. It will also be shown that the American wool, which has clothed our soldiers, far surpasses, by the tests which have been made, the product of any other country in strengthand durability, ifnot in susceptibility to finish. We shall also show that a single animal has been raised in our country which surpasses in value the 12 merine s of the same class raised here, which brought $5,000 in Euripe after drawin the prizes at the Hamburg exhibition. An is it nothing to surpass the princely shepherds of Europe? Sir, it is no inconsiderable thing for this nation that we should have the opportunity of appearing in the presence of the world in all the greatness of our development in agriculture, arts, and manufactures ay, sir, our manufactures, that now yield a gross product of more than 2000 million dollars annu ally, and never in so rapid a stage of development as now. A citizen of my colleagues district [Mr. HUBBARD] has just invented a glass mold board plow which promises, by case of draft and non-liability to rust, to su lant all others in the prairies, and it may to or use in the alluvial soils of Europe. Mr. Hoit is the inventor, and let it be seen by the world. We should call to mind here a fact, while speaking of probable results, in regard to the Worlds exibition of 1851. At that Exhibition, had this nation been without a rere sentative, what would have been her stanard and position with the nations of the earth? Here is a sample of a notice in reference to ourselves that I find in the Year Book of Facts, a foreign publication. After speaking of other nations, none received a higlher compliment than ourselves: "A more notable arrival was that of the U.S. frigate tit. Lawrence, with her freight of contributions from the mighty hemisphereof the West. the giant son of the queenof the seas. This is. an event of even historical importance, charged with high promise to the future destiniesof the 2 great commercial umpiresof modern days and proving the mostmarked advancetoward the realization of that unity which 1st have the exhibition schema its culightened comprecnsivoness. Notaunit, aptly enoughsaid Prince Albert at the cityof long onban qpueecut, l ia which breaks down the limits and levels the characteristicsof thodifferentuations of the earth. but rather a unity the result and product of those very national and antagonistic qualities.” Sir, that was but a childs show compared to that which is to be made hereafter. We shall show the wide threats of our cannon with which we have conquered mightier enemies than European nations ever encountered. We shall show our resources, what they are in nature; we shall show our development that has no par allel in the history of any nation when engaged in war. Now, sir, my apology for voting for a small appropriation as a western man, representing an agricultural district, is to be found in this statement: I believe nothing would so much romote immigration to this country as the exhibition of the industries and of arts and of the progress of nations when brought together and compared. You know, Mr. Chairman, as one of the Representatives from the State of Iowa, Mr. WILSON] that we are expecting 100,000 of our western people to get ready and soon start on their way to the gold mines. What has stimulated that emigration from our States? The gold hunters of Idaho and Montana and Colorado have returned and mingled with our people, and they have exhib ited the rich products of those countries to them, and say, “ Come back with us." and when we exhibit what is produced here to inquiring millions, we shall invite millions to come to our shores. Our unoccupied lands, fertile, reached conveniently by railroads, and to be by those projected, accessible by rivers. are so wide that you might set down the whole of continental Euro e upon them, and then you will have room or States besides. In other countries population and poverty are synony mous, but we want immigration to come here, population being wealth, to low and res those lands: to graze there the coke. Our land is of but little value without immigration; population is wealth. We have uowa half hundred million acres of land of little real value to the owners, and seemingly promotive of little else then profane swearing on the part of those who are obliged to pay the taxes on them. We want them occupied and cultivated and these people will come and occupy them when they have Before them what we are by the representations of our industry and our greatness. This Exposition will mark an epoch in the history of nations when we appear there, as I believe we shall, triumphant and bearing off the premiums and prizes; standing erect, great dignified, honorable, mighty, coming out of a war such as no nation was ever engaged in be fore. I am for the smallest appropriation that will suffice for this purpose, but I am not in favor of any penny wise and pound foolish policy. Let us appropriate only what is necessary to represent us there; let us appear there by our farmers, artisans, and scientific men. Let Agassiz be there present to represent us; Agassiz, who though foreign born, is American enough to be able to say, when invited abroad a“t 3 times the salary he was receiving here, No, I have no time to waste in making money.” He preferred to be a dweller upon our soil, at a small salary than to dwell with kings and associate with the poteutates of the earth. Let us send full representations of our countrys nobility our farmers, our mechan ics, our painters, our artisans and I believe we shall be gainers in purse, and our future will be more truly honorable, and the nafions of the earth will regard us with more esteem. Let those who want war look down the wide throat of our cannon. We have no weakness to expose to the nations of the world. we shall be, in the worlds estimation, mightier in war as we shall be more noble in peace.