518 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



gents. As to the value of the information, I will express 

 no opinion. 



Mr. Rhett. I would ask my friend from Mississippi why 

 the Smithsonian Institution itself does not print its own 

 proceedings ? 



xMr. Davis, of Mississippi. I said, I think, that this was 

 a report to Congress. The Smithsonian Institution does 

 print its contributions to knowledge, and docs attend to 

 their diffusion among men. This, however, is not a contri- 

 bution to human knowledge, but is a report to Congress of 

 the manner in which the Board of Regents executed the 

 trust confided to them. 



Mr. Pearce. I beg leave simply to add, that the law or- 

 ganizing the Smithsonian Institution compels the Board of 

 Regents to make this annual report to Congress. 



Mr. Mason. I move to amend the motion so as to provide 

 that one thousand copies shall be printed for the institution. 



Mr. NoRRis. Is this the report of a committee ? 



Mr. Borland. It is the report of the Board of Regents 

 of the Smithsonian Institution; the question of printing it 

 was referred to the Committee on Printing; the committee 

 were in favor of the proposition, but could not make a 

 report. It has been ordered to be printed ; and the propo- 

 eition now is to print three thousand extra copies. 



Mr. ]S"oRRis. Does it come from the Committee on Print- 

 ing? 



Mr. Borland. It does. 



The amendment was agreed to. 



PKOCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 



House of Representatives, January 7, 1850. 



The Speaker appointed Mr. Henry W. Ililliard of Ala- 

 bama, Mr. W. F. Colcock of South Carolina, and Mr. G. 

 N. Fitch of Indiana, on the part of the House, as the Re- 

 gents of the Smithsonian Institution. 



House of Representatives, July 23, 1850. 



Mr. HiLLiARD requested the gentleman from Pennsylva- 

 D-ia (Mr. Thompson) to waive his motion for the regular 

 order of business, so as to enable him (Mr. Ililliard) to pre- 

 sent the annual report of the Board of Regents of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. His object was simply to present 

 the report, that it might be laid upon the table and printed^ 



