678 COISTGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



Ml*. R. p. Spalding. Mr. Chairman. 1 am \'ery .sorrv to find the 

 Smithsonian Institution among tlie leeches that are all the while crying 

 to the Treasury of the United States, "Give, give! " The Smithsonian 

 is a wealthy Institution. The Government of the United States is 

 contiimally paying it gold interest on the large fund belonging to the 

 Institution; but the Institution is not willing to bear this little addi- 

 tional expense, as it is called, from its own means, but wishes to obtain 

 the money from the public Treasury. The men who pay the taxes 

 must contribute the additional sum to this wealthy Institution. 



Sir, we have loaned to that Institution the National Museum. We 

 have paid the Institution for a series of years $4,000 annuallv in cash 

 for taking care of that museum. The Institution has been content 

 with that sum heretofore; but now it comes in and asks an appropria- 

 of $10,000 for this purpose. Sir, we had better take away the museum 

 from the care of that Institution. I had almost said we had better 

 throw it into the Potomac than be constantly paying these increased 

 demands from the Smithsonian Institution. That is the light in which 

 the committee hare viewed the subject; and in that light they protest 

 against this increase. 



Amendment not agreed to. 



March 3, 1869. 



Sundry civil act for 1870. 



Smithsonian Institution: For the preservation of the collections of 

 the exploring and surveying expeditions of the Government, $4,000. 

 (Stat., Xy, 307.) 



EXPLORING EXPEDITION. 

 February 28, 1868. 



Resolved., etc.^ That the Librarian of Congress be, and is hereby, 

 directed to deliver to the Secretary of State a set of Dana's Crustacea, 

 being volumes 13 and 14 of the narrative of the exploring expedition 

 under Captain Wilkes; and that the Secretary of State is nereby 

 directed to deliver them to the Government of Great Britain. 



(Stat., XV, 248.) 



REPORT OF SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



May 29, 1868— Senate. 



Annual report for 1867 was presented. 



Mr. L. Trumbull moved to print 5,000 extra copies. 

 May 29, 1868— House. 



Annual report for 1867 presented, 



Mr, J, A, Garfield moved to print 5,000 extra copies. 

 May 30, 1868— Senate. 



Mr, H, B, Anthony, from the Committee on Printing, reported 



resolution : 



That 5,000 additional copies of the report of the Smithsonian Institution for the 

 year 1867 be printed; 3,000 for the use of the Senate and 2,000 for the use of the 



