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very work with foreign societies and foreign governments we add to 

 our Congressional Library works of value, amounting to between 

 2,000 and 3,000 volumes annually. 



The President pro tempore (Mr. M. H. Carpenter). The resolution 

 will be read as proposed to be amended. 



The Chief Clerk. If amended as proposed by the Senator from 

 Maine, the resolution will read: 



Resolved [the House of Eepreseritntives conmrriny), That 7,500 additional copies of 

 the report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1873 be printed for the use 

 of the Institution: Provided, That the aggregate number of pages of said report shall 

 not exceed 450, and that there shall be nO illustrations except those furnished by the 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



The resolution as amended agreed to. 

 May 15, 1874— House. 



Mr. W. G. DoNNAN, from the Committee on Printing, reported 

 back, with the recommendation that it be concurred in, concurrent 

 resolution from the Senate: 



That 7,500 additional copies of the report of the Smithsonian Institution for the 

 year 1873 be printed for the use of the Institution: Provided, That the aggregate 

 number of pages of said report shall not exceed 450, and that there be no illustrations 

 except those furnished by the Smithsonian Institution. 



Mr. W. S. HoLMAN. Does that resolution propose to give all the 

 copies to the Smithsonian Institution? 



Mr. DoNNAN. I desire to say to the House that this resolution pro- 

 poses 6,000 less than the usual number of copies, but we make no 

 provision for furnishing any copies to members of Congress. The 

 whole number is for the Smithsonian Institution. 



Mr. HoLMAN, It seems to me that there ought to be some copies 

 for members of Congress. I think it would be fair not to increase 

 the number, but to divide it up so that a portion shall be distributed 

 by Senators and members of the House. 



Mr. DoNNAN. This is a Senate resolution, and it was believed, inas- 

 much as members of Congress have no means of distributing the doc- 

 uments, that they could obtain such copies as they desired for their 

 own use from the Institution. 



Mr. HoLMAN, I think it would be better to have a small number 

 provided for members of Congress. Most of us are perfectly willing 

 to send them to our constituents, I think one-third of the number 

 should be furnished for the use of members of Congress. What is 

 the number which the resolution proposes to have printed^ 



Mr. DoNNAN. Seventy -five hundred for distribution by the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



Mr. HoLMAN. Seventy-five hundred all together? 



Mr. DoNNAN. Yes; and the usual number was 12,000. 



Mr. HoLMAN. Then I would move to amend the resolution so that 



