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charged amounts to $41,152.66. In 1885 the work charged amounted 

 to $4,110.44. The whole aggregated $119,478.63 charged, but not 

 yet completed. And yet we are asked to go on and make further 

 charges and authorize further printing in this connection, when the 

 work is not yet completed for 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, and 1885. 



I do not think these facts could have been in the possession of the 

 Committee on Printing, or that the recommendation of the commission 

 appointed to examine into the expenditures of this Department could 

 have been fulh^ examined. They recommend not to proceed further 

 with the printing until there is a completion of the prior work. 



Now, what are these bulletins? They are scraps that are subse- 

 quently to make part of the report. Now, it is asked that these scraps 

 shall be printed as they come in. If they are printed as scraps they 

 ought not to be reprinted in the regular report, and if they are printed 

 in the regular report they ought not to be printed as scraps. I think 

 that they would be of more service to science if the}^ were brought 

 together, and not printed separatelj^ in this disjointed way. 



Mr. Reid, of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I have just this to say: 

 This report was made on March 25, 1886, when the joint commission 

 referred to by the gentleman from Pennsylvania had not yet made 

 their report, and the Committee on Printing was in possession of none 

 of the facts reported by that commission as the result of their inqui- 

 ries concerning the printing done for the Geological and Ethnological 

 bureaus. I will state, however, that this printing is in addition to 

 the regular annual bulletin issued by the Bureau. As the persons who 

 are sent out by the Bureau to make researches make their reports it is 

 proposed to issue these reports in pamphlet form, thus giving the sci- 

 entific world the benefit of those researches as they are made. 



Mr. Dunham. Something like the Patent Office Gazette? 



Mr. Reid, of North Carolina. Something in that order. These are 

 not intended to be published in the annual reports at all. We went 

 over the matter ver}^ carefully with the chief of the Bureau, and, 

 according to the best estimate we could make, they will be printed in 

 from three to six parts annually, and the cost will be from $2,500 to 

 $3,000 per annum. That would be in addition to the regular annual 

 bulletin printed by the Bureau. 



Mr. E. Barksdale. Mr. Speaker, I call the previous question on 

 ordering the joint resolution to be engrossed and read the third time. 



Mr. Randall. Mr. Speaker 



Mr. Barksdale. I withdraw the demand for the previous question, 

 I did not know that the gentleman from Pennsylvania desired to speak 

 further on this subject. 



Mr. Randall. Mr. Speaker, I am glad to hear the gentleman from 

 North Carolina [Mr. Reid] say that when this report was made the 

 Committee on Printing were not in possession of the recommendations 



