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necessary. Then comes for the preservation again. That 

 is a mistake ; and therefore the clause was redrafted by the 

 committee, so as to provide for the distribution. We do 

 not want to provide once more for preserving the collections 

 that are to be kept there, and therefore these words ought 

 to be stricken out. 



Mr. Hunter. I say strike out these words; and then, if 

 you oppose the distribution, vote against the amendment 

 which proposes to insert the other words. 



Mr. Fessenden. That is precisel}' what I am proposiug^ 

 to the Senator from Iowa; to let these words be stricken 

 out, and then bring up the question in that way. 



Mr. Pearce. I should like to say to the Senator from Iowa 

 that there are collections enough to supply every college 

 and every scientific institution interested in such matters in 

 the country, and our intention is to supply the whole of 

 them; there cannot be any favoritism ; but we must make 

 some small appropriation for it, although we do not propose 

 to pay the transportation. It would not do, for example, to 

 let the president of a college come here and select just what 

 he would pick and carry away. That would produce the 

 very eifect which the Senator is so desirous of avoiding. 

 One institution would get too much, perhaps. Somebody 

 must be employed not only to arrange these objects of natural 

 history and classify them, but also to put aside into separate 

 parcels the portions which are to be distributed to the different 

 institutions. For that we are to pay. The Senator can guard 

 against the Government paying the expenses of transporta- 

 tion if he pleases, by making an amendment to it in this form, 

 "provided that no part of the said money shall be expended in 

 transportation." As to favoritism, I say it is not possible, 

 because there is an abundance of these collections to answer 

 the calls of every institution in the country. 



Mr. Bragg. I think the difficulty may be obviated by an 

 amendment which I have prepared; though I suppose my 

 amendment will not be in order at this time, as I understand 

 there is an amendment pending to the amendment. 



The Presiding Officer. The question now is on striking 

 out. 



Mr. Fessenden. On striking out what nobody objects ta 

 striking out. 



Mr. Bragg. This, I think, will accord with the idea of 

 the Senator from Maryland, to follow the amendment offered 

 by the committee : 



" Such distribution to be only to institutions willing to receive the same, 

 and at their own expense." 



