850 CONGRESSIONAi. PROCEEDINGS. 



Mr. Wilson. It is very necessarj^ that the Smithsonian Institution 

 should have 7,000 copies of this document. As I have already stated, 

 we are informed by an officer of the Institution that rare scientific 

 books from Europe are received in exchange for these reports. 



Mr. Mills. Do we exchange one book for one ? 



Mr. Wilson. Yes, sir; one for one. 



Mr. Atkins. How many of these reports will the House receive? 



Mr. Wilson. Six thousand. 



Mr. Atkins. And the Senate how man}^? 



Mr. Wilson. Twenty-five hundred. 



Mr. Atkins. Is that in accordance with the numerical proportion 

 of the two bodies ? 



Mr. DuNNELL. My objection to the report of the committee of 

 conference is that the House conferees have conceded everything to the 

 Senate and reserved nothing to the House. The}^ have given up for 

 the benefit of the Smithsonian Institution the 2,000 copies which we 

 added to our proportion, while the Senate receives the full number 

 that we originally agreed on. There is no proper proportion between 

 the number granted to the House and the number granted to the 

 Senate. 



Mr. Wilson. I wish to say that the present Committee on Print- 

 ing has broken through the rule heretofore established; and under the 

 action of the committee the members of the House will get a very 

 much larger number of reports than they have received heretofore, 



Mr. DuNNELL. Certainly not by this report. 



Mr. Wilson. That is the best conclusion we can come to. 



Mr. Alexander H. Coffroth. Then reject it. 



The House divided; and there were ayes, 47; noes, 45. 



So the conference report was adopted. 



May 22, 1880— Senate. 



Conference report adopted. 

 January 10, 1881 — House. 



Mr. M. P. O'Connor introduced joint resolution (H. 364): 

 Resolved, etc., That 3,000 copies of each of the reports of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, together with the documentary history and journals and hfe and writings of 

 James Smithson, with illustrations, be printed from the stereotype plates now in the 

 Congressional Printing Office, of which 1,500 shall be for the use of the House, 500 

 for the use of the Senate, and 1,000 for the use of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Referred to Committee on Printing. 



January 28, 1881— House. 



Mr. Philip C. Hayes, from the Committee on Printing, reported 

 with amendments joint resolution (H. 364) for printing Smithsonian 

 reports : 



Resolved, etc., That 3,000 copies of each of the reports of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, together with the documentary history and journals and life and writings of 



