470 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



Mr. Thompson said that he was opposed to giving copies to members 

 of Congress. 



Mr. Wentworth then moved to amend Mr. Thompson's amend- 

 ment b}^ adding that a copy of the work should be furnished to each 

 Senator, Representative, and Delegate to the present Congress. 



Mr. Thaddeus Stevens said that he was opposed to the amendment 

 to the amendment. He understood that the original amendment 

 merely contemplated giving the plates to the Smithsonian Institution 

 for that Institution to publish them. Congress had a perfect right to 

 do this, but he could not understand by what right they could call 

 upon the Institution to furnish a copy to each member of Congress 

 from its own resources. If Congress intended granting an appropri- 

 ation to defray the expense of the publication and distribution, as the 

 gentleman from Illinois proposed, he would have no objection to it, 

 but unless such an appropriation were made he should feel himself 

 compelled to vote against the gentleman's amendment. 



The question was then taken on Mr. Wentworth's amendment, and 

 it was not agreed to. 



The question was then taken on Mr. Thompson's amendment, and it 

 was adopted. 



March 3. 1851. 



Civil and diplomatic act for 1852. 



To enable the Smithsonian Institution to publish a new edition of 

 Wilkes' Narrative and the accompanying series of papers; the plates 

 and engravings which have been made at the expense of the United 

 States to be turned, and they are hereby ordered to be delivered over 

 to the said Institution to be used for that purpose. 



(Stat, IX, 699.) 

 March 3, 1851. 



An act making appropriations for the naval service for 1852. 



Sec. 5. A)id he it further enacted^ That for continuing the prepara- 

 tion and publication of the works of the exploring expedition, includ- 

 ing the pay of the scientific corps, care of property, payment for 

 printing, and paper, and other contracts under the law of 1842, author- 

 izing the preparation and publication of said works, $25,000. 



(Stat., IX, 626.) 



CARE OF government COLLECTIONS. 



I^pril 15, 1850— Senate. 



The bill for the completion of the Patent Office being under consid- 

 eration, Mr. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, said: 



Mr. President: What the wants of the Patent Office are now is one 

 thing, and what those wants will be in a few years is another and an 

 entirely different thing. Not only from the report of the last Com- 



