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have it, and it is our duty to give them the opportunity to 

 know what we do. 



Mr. Anthony. I believe when this report was presented 

 the usual number was ordered to be printed. If not, I will 

 raake that motion. That number ought to printed at any 

 rate. 



The President pro tempore. It was ordered. The Chair 

 understands objection to be made to the further considera- 

 tion of the resolution. 



Mr. Morrill, of Maine. Yes, sir. 



The President pro tempore. The resolution will lie over. 



'February 27, 1874. — Mr. Hamlin. I move to take up the 



resolution for the printing of the Smithsonian report. I 



think it will detain the Senate but a moment. It was up 



the other morning. 



The motion was agreed to. 



Mr. Hamlin. My colleague interposed some objection 

 to the resolution because there were five hundred copies 

 provided for in it for the Senate, and a thousand for the 

 House. I have conferred with my colleague, and I have 

 also conferred with the Senator who reported the resolution, 

 and with their concurrence I move now to strike out the 

 whole number appropriated to both the Senate and House. 

 That will be my first motion. I shall follow that with 

 another motion to increase the number to the Smithsonian 

 Institution by fifteen hundred, which is just the number 

 stricken out. That takes away entirely the objection to 

 printing any copies for our own distribution. I transfer 

 that number to the institution for this reason : I take it 

 every Senator, like myself, has supplied the ])rincipal libra- 

 ries of the State for years with this work. They will want 

 it, and they will cease to call upon us, but they will call 

 upon the institution for it, and that number which was pro- 

 posed for the Senate and for the House will be transferred 

 there, and there they will find them. 



I want to say also, in this connection, that by an exchange 

 of this very work with foreign societies and foreign govern- 

 ments, we add to our congressional library works of value, 

 amounting to between two and three thousand volumes 

 annuall}'. 



The President pro tempore. The resolution will be read 

 as proposed to be amended. 



The Chief Clerk. If amended as proposed by the Sen- 

 ator from Maine, the resolution will read : 



Resolved, {the House of Representatives co7icurrin(j,) That seven thousand 

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



