FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS, 1879-1881. 845 



SMITHSON FUN 

 March 5, 1880— Senate. 



Mr. H. G. Davis, from Committee on Appropriations, reported 

 (S. 334) on bill (S. 1424), relative to placing under the direct supervision 

 and control of Congress the appropriations known as permanent and 

 indefinite. 



A table showed the amount paid on the Smithson fund as interest: 

 In 187T, $39,060; 1878, $40,841; 1879, $39,060. 



A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr, John Sherman, 

 recommended excepting the Smithson trust from any act repealing 

 the present laws. 



REPORT OF SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



March 11, 1880— Senate. 



Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1879 presented and ordered 

 to be printed. 



Mr. H. Hamlin offered concurrent resolution to print 10,500 copies 

 of the Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1879, 1,000 for the 

 Senate, 3,000 for the House of Representatives, 6,500 for the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



Referred to Committee on Printing. 

 March 22, 1880— Senate. 



Reported by Mr. H. B. Anthony, and passed. 

 April 21, 1880— House. 



Mr. Benjamin Wilson. I rise to make a privileged report from the 

 Committee on Printing. That committee has directed me to report 

 back, with a recommendation that the House concur, a resolution of 

 the Senate for printing copies of the report of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



The Clerk read as follows: 



Resolved by the Senate {the House of Representatives concurring), That 10,500 copies of 

 the report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1879 be printed, 1,000 copies 

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

 Representatives, and 6,500 for the use of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Mr. M, DuNNELL. I wish the gentleman from West Virginia [Mr. 

 Wilson] would consent to an amendment. I would like to amend this 

 resolution by striking out the word " ten" and inserting '"' fifteen," so 

 as to provide for printing 15,500 copies of this report. 



Mr. Wilson. This resolution proposes the number which has been 

 printed every year for a long series of years, and which I believe has 

 been found sufficient. 



Mr. Bunnell. This Smithsonian Report is a very valuable document. 

 Members of the House are in the habit of getting seven or perhaps 

 nine copies each. There are more than that number of public libraries 

 in every Congressional district in the countiy. This is a report which 



