Mr. BUCKALEW. I move on; amendment from the select committee on ventilation, I to come in on page 14, immediately after the appropriation for the Capitol extension: For improvementsin the Senate wing of the Cap itol proposedin the report of the ] oiutSClecteom mittee of the two Houses upon the improvement of the Halls of Congress made at the last session, and approved and recqmmendodat the presentsession y the select committee of the Senate upon the ven tilationnnd sanitary condition of the Senate wing of the Capitol. the sumof 8117.68%0: and thesaid improvements shall by e made and executedunder the man cment and direction of CharlesF. Anderson, asarent ect and spperintendent, uponplans or speci lcat'ions and details to bosubmittedw and approved by Dr. Thomas Antiself and all necessary contracts for work and materials shall be made by the CommrPubBldgs with the concurrence of the min t and all accountsand expenditures for lrleldt army ionfsstheal Treasury examined and certified to theSc c for patient by said Commissioner. The compensationo said architectand superintendentshall be at the rate heretofore paid to the superintending architect of the Capitol extension payable quarterly out of the foregoing approprint up. Commencing from and after the passage of wh. I suppose it would be best to have the report of the committee on ventilation at the present session read in connection with thisameiidment. At the last session of Congress an elaborate report was made by a JtCommee of the 2 Houses, recommending precisely the improvements now contemplated. An appropriation, in accordance with their recommendation, was put upon the miscellaneous appropriation bill by the Senate last year, but without any debate, in the expiring hours of the session: and the committee of conference on the part of the Senate, in meeting a like committee from the House, abandoned the proposed appropriation, and they did it upon grounds which were perhaps unexceptiouable. That bill was loaded down with enormous amounts of undigested or unexainined matter, and this section was of that character. The committee had not leisure to examine the subject, and it was abandoned, as I said before, along with a number of other sections in dispute. At the present session the select Senate committee took up the investigation and went over the whole field of inquiry again, and we now report to the Senate the amendment which I have proposed. In the report at the present session the committee have not gone over the flounds covered by the former report, but they have called attention to leading and important points, which sufficiently vindicate the measure. ithont consuming the time of the Senate in a prolonged debate upon all the points involved, propose, as this subject is important, and as it will go to the HoRep and be the subject of reference hereafter, to have the brief report of the select committee at the present session read.