728 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



January 12, 1874. — Mr. Howe, from the Committee on 

 the Library, to whom was referred the above resolution, 

 asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and 

 that it be indefinitely postponed ; wdiich was agreed to. 



The same committee, to whom was referred the joint res- 

 olution frofli the House filling existing vacancies in tlie Board 

 of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, have had the same 

 under consideration, and have instructed me to report it back 

 without amendment, and with the recommendation tliat it 

 pass ; which was ordered to lie over. 



January 13, 1874. — Mr. Stevenson moved to take up the 

 joint resolution from the House providing for the appoint- 

 ment and reappointment of Regents of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, which yesterday was ordered to lie over; and it 

 was read a third time and passed. 



The President jpro tempore appointed Mr. A. A. Sargent, 

 of California, a regent of the institution. 



February 13, 1874. — Annual report for 1873 laid before 

 the Senate. 



Mr. Hamlin oftered the following : 



Resolved, [the House of Representatives concurring,) That twelve thousand 

 live hundred additional copies of the report of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 for the year 1873, be printed ; twenty-five hundred of which shall be for 

 the use of the Senate, five thousand for the use of the House, and five 

 thousand for the use of the institution : Provided, That the aggregate 

 number of pages of said report shall not exceed four hundred and fifty, and 

 that tliere shall be no illustrations except those furnished by the Smith- 

 Bonian Institution. 



February 20, 1874. — Mr. Anthony. The Committee on 

 Printing, to whom was referred a resolution to print extra 

 copies of the report of the Smithsonian Institution, have 

 directed me to report it back with amendments, and to ask 

 for its present consideration. 



The Committee on Printing proposed to amend the reso- 

 lution, so as to make it read : 



Resolved, {the House of Representatives concurrinff,) That seven thousand 

 five hundred additional copies of the report of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 for the year 1873, be printed ; five hundred of which shall be for the use 

 of the Senate, one thousand for the use of the House, and six thousand for 

 the use of the institution. 



Mr. Anthony. The customary publication of this docu- 

 ment has been twelve thousand copies ; five thousand for 

 the use of the Smithsonian Institution, twenty-five hundred 

 for the use of the Senate, and five thousand for the use of 

 the House of Representatives, We now have reported to 

 increase the number to the institution from five thousand 

 to six thousand, to reduce the number for the Senate from 



