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[page 785] on the floor? A. They occasionally roll out of bed in a fit. Q. Have you wire beds on the floor for them? A. We have some Q. Wouldn't it be an advantage to have them provided? A. It would, and they probably will be before long. The direction is to purchase some 200 more wire beds. Q. Has the fire been kept up this winter so as to carry steam all night into the lodge-halls? A. Yes, sir Q. For what was Mr. Morse discharged? Mr. Baker: Mr. Manley authorizes me to state, so far as he is concerned, he was informed that Mr. Morse has been appointed for purely political reasons, and that another, a young man, was in the hospital who would have unless he was promoted, and was a valuable man in the service, has since made a better clerk than Morse, although Morse was a satisfactory clerk; and that so far as he was concerned, knowing Morse to have been appointed for purely political reasons, he thought it was proper to remove him and appoint an equally capable