988 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



February 25, 1887— Senate. 



Passed. 

 March 2, 1887— House. 



Passed. 



CAPRON .JAPANESE COLLECTION. 



February 8, 1886— Senate. 



Mr. Daniel W. Voorhees submitted a resolution: 



Resolved, That the Committee on the Library be, and is hereby, instructed to 

 inquire into the propriety and expediency of purchasing for the Government the 

 collection of Japanese specimens, works, and objects of art made by the late Gen. 

 Horace Capron during a long actual residence in Japan, and left by him, in his life- 

 time, on deposit in the Smithsonian Institution; and that said committee sliall report 

 on the subject by bill or otherwise. 



Agreed to. 



Mr. Voorhees. I ask that a descriptive catalogue of the collection 

 may be referred to the Committee on the Library. 



The President pro tempore (Mr. John Sherman). If there be no 

 objection it will be so referred. 



March 4, 1886— Senate. 



Mr. Daniel W. Voorhees, from the Committee on the Library, 

 submitted a report (S. 196), accompanied by a bill (S. 1TT2): 



That the sum of $10,000 be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any 

 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purchase of "the Capron 

 collection of Japanese works of art," now on temporary deposit in the National 

 Museum at Washington, District of Columbia. 



June 18, 1886— Senate. 



The bill (S. 1772) was considered as in Committee of the Whole.' 



Mr. William B. Allison. Let the report be read. 



In the matter of the purchase of "the Capron collection of Japanese 

 works of art," now on temporary deposit in the National Museum, 

 referred by resolution of the Senate to the Committee on the Library, 

 that committee reports a bill for the purchase of the same. 



Your committee also reports the letter of Spencer F. Baird, Secre- 

 tary of the Smithsonian Institution and Director of the U. S. National 

 Museum, together with the letter of G. Brown Goode, assistant 

 director, on the subject of said collection. 



U. S. National Museum, under direction of tlie Smithsonian Institution. 



Washington, February 26, 1886. 



Sir: I am in receipt of your communication asking my opinion as to the probable 

 value of the Capron collection of Japanese works of art, and as to the desirability of 

 their purchase. I have requested one of my assistants to examine the collection, 

 and inclose herewith his report. 



The Capron collection is an interesting one, and is constantly increasing in value. 

 In fact, several of the articles included could probably not be readily obtained else- 

 where. In view, therefore, of the fact that Japanese art is undergoing, great deteri- 



