756 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



There was no objection ; and the memorial was referred 

 to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and 

 ordered, with the accompanying list, to be printed in the 

 llecord. 



February 16, 1877. — Annual report of the institution for 

 1876, presented. Mr. McCrary offered a resolution to print 

 10,500 extra copies. 



February 28, 1877. — Mr. Singleton, from the Committee 

 on Printing, reported the following resolution ; which was 

 passed : 



Resolved, That 10,500 copies of the Eeport of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, for the year 1876, be printed. 1,000 copies of which shall be for the 

 use of the Senate, 3,000 copies of which shall be for the use of the House of 

 Eepresentatives, and 6, -500 for the use of the Smithsonian Institution : Pro~ 

 vided, That the aggregate number of pages shall not exceed 500, and that 

 there be no illustrations except those furnished by the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. 



March 3, 1877. — Mr. Clymer. 1 ask unanimous consent 

 that the bill (S. jSTo. 1252) for the erection of a fire-proof 

 building for a National Museum be taken from the Speak- 

 er's table and passed. 



The clerk read the bill, as follows : 



Be it enacted, ^c, That for a fire-proof building for the use of the Na- 

 tional Museum, three hundred feet square, to be erected under the direction 

 and supervision of the Eegents of the Smithsonian Institution, in accord- 

 ance w'ith the plan of Major General M. C. Meigs, now on tile with the 

 Joint Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, on the southwest cor- 

 ner cf the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution, the sum of $250,000 is 

 hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- 

 priated ; said building to be placed west of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 leaving a road-way between it and the latter of not less than thirty feet, 

 with its north front on a line parallel with the north face of the buildings 

 of the Agricultural Department and of the Smithsonian Institution ; and 

 all expenditures for the purposes herein mentioned, not including anything 

 for architectural plans, shall be audited by the proper officers of the 

 Treasury Department. 



Mr. Throckmorton. I object. 



Mr. Clymer. I move that the rules be suspended and 

 the bill passed, and I ask unanimous consent to make a 

 brief statement in regard to it. 



Mr. Mills. I object. 



The question w^as taken on the motion to suspend the 

 rules and pass the bill ; and on a division there were — ayes 

 71, noes 41 ; not two-thirds voting in the affirmative. 



Mr. Clymer. I call for tellers. 



Tellers were ordered ; and Mr, Clymer and Mr. Throck- 

 morton were appointed. 



The House divided ; and the tellers reported — ayes 106, 

 noes 42. 



