Mr. LAWRENCE, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chairman. I have left the chair in order to say a word in defense of a friend. I want to corroborate what has been said by my colleague on the committee, the Gentfrom Michigan, [Mr. TRowBRIDGE] I wish I had time to speak at length on this subject, but I have not. I have seen manifested in this House today what I consider a most illiberal and unjust spirit toward this Dept. You have appropriated for the SecyTreasury more than a million dollars, and not a word of inquiry was made on the subject. You have made appropriations for other Depts, and you propose to pass the bill without making any question on the subject. But when you come to the Dept of Agriculture, which, as my friend says, is one of the best in the country, it seems every lawyer on the floor and every professional man claims the privilege of abusing the head of that Dept without making any charges. I venture to say, if the investigation we made last winter is spread be: fore the House, there is not an honest man, if you except the chairman of the committee, but will condemn the charges brought by men like the one whose pamphlet has been read. One man stood before the committee, as my friend knows, and swore that the imported wheat was filled with various impurities; but when it was exhibited to the committee it was as clean as any you ever saw. That man was said to be crazy and was turned out, not on account of the testimony he gave before the committee, but because i. was mentally unfit for the position. In the committee room he stated what was not true, yet he was turned out because he was considered to be insane, demented. That is the kind of testimony upon which you condemn Isaac Newton. He is not a lit erary man; he does not claim to be such; but he is a man who has made his living on a farm in Pennsylvania, and has shown himself entitled to the respect and confidence of every one with whom he has been associated. I venture to say, if you will give me a committee of this House, I will prove more frauds, rascalities, and profligacy in any Dept of the government than you can find in the bureau under Isaac Newton. And who ever charged him with dishonesty except some one who has been turned out of the Dept or who wants to get in, like the man who was at the head of the Census Bureau? These men have sent out papers to Iowa and Illinois and all the western States, to the agricultural fairs and committees, asking them to indorse their statements against Mr. Newton and send them back; these are the men who get up charges against him and are now attempting to break him down and get his place. I am astonished that members will lend themselves to help break down a Dept in this way by bringing charges against an honest and faithful public officer. I repeat, there is no man on this floor who can prove an act of dishonesty against this man, and I doubt whether there is a better practical farmer in the country. If you want to break down the Dept, take away the appropriation; but do not make charges against an honest man like Isaac Newton, whose character is as dear to him as that of any member on this floor. The amendment to the amendment was with raW in.