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of the joint commission in relation to the scientific bureaus of the 

 Government. 



Mr. Reid, of North Carolina. The gentleman from Pennsylvania 

 [Mr. Randall] will remember that it has been only a few weeks since 

 that commission reported. 



Mr. Randall. 1 know that, and I desire to say now that in any- 

 thing 1 have said on this subject it has not been my wish, purpose, or 

 intention to reflect in even the slightest degree upon the recommenda- 

 tions of the Committee on Printing. On the contrary, without mak- 

 ing an invidious distinction, I might say that the present Committee 

 on Printing of this House has been perhaps more assiduous in its 

 efforts to save money than any of its predecessors. At the same time, 

 I think the committee ought to stop right here and not ask us to 

 appropriate for the printing of these bulletins, in view of the state of 

 facts I have presented. 



Mr. Reid, of North Carolina. I will add, Mr. Speaker, that if we 

 send out these employees to make these researches and to report upon 

 them, I think the scientific world ought to have the benefit of their 

 reports. As I have already said, these bulletins are not to be pub- 

 lished in the annual report, and therefore the only way in which the 

 scientific world can get the benefit of them is by printing them in the 

 form here proposed. 



Mr. Randall. If they are printed in this form they ought not to be 

 subsequentlj^ republished at great additional cost in the annual report. 

 Can the gentleman inform us when these bulletins will reach the public? 



Mr. Reid, of North Carolina. Just as soon as the order is made to 

 print them. 



Mr. Randall. 1 think not. 



Mr. Reid, of North Carolina. That is my information from the 

 Bureau. 



Mr. Darwin W. James. Will the gentleman from North Carolina 

 please tell us how much money the bill carries for this purpose? 



Mr. Reid, of North Carolina. Twenty-five hundred or three thou- 

 sand dollars; the highest limit will be $3,000 per annum. 



Mr. Randall. Each of these bulletins cost about |2,500 or $3,000, 

 but when you aggregate the cost it comes to a great deal more. 



Mr. Reid, of North Carolina. No; that is the aggregate cost per 

 annum. Mr. Speaker, I now call the previous question. 



Mr. DiNGLEY. Before the gentleman does that, I wish to make an 

 inquiry with reference to the issuance of the reports of the Bureau of 

 Ethnology. I think the report that is now being distributed is the 

 one for 1882-83; that is, three years behind the present date, and the 

 inquiry I wish to make is (if the Committee on Printing have investi- 

 gated the matter) why it is that these reports are so much delayed. 



Mr. Randall. I can answer the question. It is because the men 



