938 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINOR. 



fore we do not make 'dny amejidnieiit. As the ])ill is very short, I 

 will ask to have it read, for the purpose of asking- its present consid- 

 eration. 



The President pro tempore (Mr. G. F. Edmunds). The Senator from 

 Vermont asks unanimous consent that the bill reported by him from 

 the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds be now considered. 



Mr. J. J. Ingalls. Is the morning business through ? 



The President pro tempore. It is not. 



Mr. Ingalls. I ask for the regular order. 



The President pro tempore. The regular order is called for. The 

 bill will be placed on the calendar. 

 February 26, 1885— Senate. 



Passed. 

 Marcfi 2, 1885. 



Beit enacted, etc., That a brick and metal fireproof building, to be used for the 

 safe-keeping of the records, library, and museum of the Surgeon-General's Office of 

 the United States Army, is hereby authorized to be constructed upon the Govern- 

 ment reservation in the city of AVashington, in the vicinity of the National Museum 

 and the Smithsonian Institution, on a site to be selected by a commission com- 

 posed of the Secretary of War, the Architect of the Capitol, and the Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, and in accordance with plans and specifications submitted 

 by the Surgeon-General of the Army and approved by said commission, the cost of 

 the building, when completed, not to exceed the sum of $200,000; the building to be 

 erected and the money expended under the direction and superintendence of the 

 Secretary of War. 



Sec. 2. That the sum of $200,000 is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the 

 .Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the commencement and completion of said 

 building. 



(Stat., XXm, .389.) 



APPOINTMENT OF REGENTS 



By the Speaker. 

 January 7, 1884 — House. 



The Speaker (Mr. John G. Carlisle) announced the appointment 

 of the following members of the House as Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, to date from the fourth Wednesday of December, 1883: 

 Otho R. Singleton, of Mississippi, William L. Wilson, of West Vir- 

 ginia, William Walter Phelps, of New Jersey. 



appointment of regents 



By Joint Bt'xolution. 

 February 8, 1884 — Senate. 



Mr. N. p. Hill introduced a joint resolution (S. 58). 



Referred to Committee on the Library. 

 February 14, 1884 — Senate. 



Mr. John Sherman. I am directed by the Committee on the Library, 

 to whom was referred the joint resolution (S. 58) tilling an existing 

 vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, to 



