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I am tired of all this thing called science here. It was only the other 

 day we made another appropriation in regard to the expedition which 

 Captain Wilkes took out to the Pacific Ocean. We have paid $1,00U 

 a vokmie for the book which he published. Who has ever seen that 

 book outside of this Senate, and how many copies are there of it in 

 this country ? W^e have spent millions in that sort of thing for the 

 last few years, and it is time it should be stopped. Now, the only 

 wa}^ — and I say it in all sinceritj^ — in which I think this Smithsonian 

 Institution can be useful to the country is by living within its means; 

 that it shall not ask any aid of the Government at all; that it shall not 

 rely on patronage, but on the good it does and the benefit it confers, 

 to sustain it. The country at large and the people of this countr}^ will 

 take care of it if it is worthy to be taken care of, but if they come to 

 the legislature every year asking for an appropriation it must sink. 

 As a friend of that Institution, and as a friend of the very distin- 

 guished and able and pure man who is at the head of it, I do not want 

 it to be connected with the Government at all. 



The Pkesiding Officer. The Chair understands the Senator from 

 Pennsylvania to move to strike out the appropriation contained in the 

 amendment? 



Mr. Cameron, Yes, sir. 



The Presiding Officer. The question, then, will be on the amend- 

 ment to the amendment to strike out the appropriation. 



Mr. Cameron and Mr. Hale. Let us have the yeas and nays on that. 



Mr. K. S. Bingham. Wh}^ can not we take a vote direct on the 

 amendment? 



Mr. Cameron. I have no objection to that. I withdraw the call. 



Mr. Hale, I hope we shall have the yeas and nays on the amendment 

 of the committee. 



The Presiding Officer. Does the Senator from Pennsylvania with- 

 draw his amendment? 



Mr. Cameron. Yes, sir. 



The Presiding Officer. The question, then, will be on the amend- 

 ment of the committee as amended on motion of the Senator from 

 North Carolina. 



Mr. Cameron. I desire to have the yeas and nays taken on that 

 question. 



The yeas and nays were ordered. 



Mr. Hale. I simply want to call the attention of the Senate to the 

 fact that we have stricken out of the amendment, on motion of the 

 Senator from North Carolina, all the expenses incurred for distribu- 

 tion, and now you propose to give $6,000 to make bug cases alone 

 without any transportation. 



Mr, Fessenden. I will suggest that it is now within four minutes 

 of the time when we as'reed to take a recess. 



