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That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the House 

 nmnbered 4, and agree to the same with the following amendment: Strike out " five 

 thousand" and insert "seven thousand;" and the House agree to the same. 



B. Wilson, 

 P. C. Hayes, 

 Managers on the part of the House. 

 M. W. Ransom, 

 H. B. Anthony, 

 Managers on the part of the Senate. 



Mr. J. D. C. Atkins. Will the gentleman from West Virginia give 

 us some explanation of this report? 



Mr. Wilson. There is a written explanation accompanying the 

 report. I ask the Clerk to read it. 



The Clerk read as follows: 



The Committee on Printing present the following statement to accompany the 

 report of the conference committee on the Senate concurrent resolution to print the 

 Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1879: 



The original resolution, with the House amendment thereto, made the following 



distribution: 



Copies. 

 Whole nmnber ordered 15, 500 



For the use of the Senate 2, 500 



For the use of the House 8, 000 



For the use of the Smithsonian Institution 5, 000 



The conference report, if adopted, will reduce the number of copies for the use of 

 the House by 2,000, which will transfer to the use of the Smithsonian Institution, 



making the distribution as follows: 



• Copies. 



Whole number ordered 15, 500 



For the use of the Senate 2, 500 



For the use of the House 6, 000 



For the use of the Smithsonian Institution 7, 000 



Mr. Roger Q. Mills. I want to ask the gentleman from AVest 

 Virginia [Mr. Wilson] why the committee give the Smithsonian 

 Institution a larger number of these volumes than they give to the 

 entire House of Representatives ? 



Mr. Wilson. Because we are informed by officers of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution that a large number of these reports are sent 

 abroad in exchange for rare scientific books, which can not be bought, 

 which are not in the market; and the value to our libraries of the 

 books which we thus receive is much greater than the cost of these 

 reports. 



Mr. Mark H. Dunnell. It will be noticed upon examining the con- 

 ference report and the accompanying statement that by the adoption 

 of this report we shall lose all the benefit of the additional number 

 voted by the House, while the Senate retains the full benefit of that 

 addition. The conference report, while giving to the Senate the whole 

 number that the House agreed to, reduces our share by 2,000. 

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