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is really the substitution, which is simply to put in this clause in a 

 more definite form. There can be no objection to striking out these 

 words. 



Mr. HUNTER. The Senator from Iowa will accomplish his present 

 purpose if we should refuse to strike out, and leave the clause as it 

 stands. The difference between the two is, that the amendment pro- 

 poses to distribute as well as to preserve these collections, and the words 

 proposed to be stricken out merely provide for the preservation. 



Mr. FESSENDEN. The provision above, which has been already 

 adopted, makes all the appropriation necessary to preserve the collec- 

 tions. Then we come to the clause which provides for the distribu- 

 tion, and that it is proposed to strike out and to insert a re-draft of the 

 provision in another form. The first paragraph applies to the 

 preservation. 



Mr. HUNTER. Then the plan would be to vote for striking out and 

 to vote against inserting what it is proposed to insert. 



Mr. FESSENUEN. There is no objection to appropriating the $4,000 

 for the preservation. That is done. That is necessary. Then comes 

 for the preservation again. That is a mistake; and therefore the 

 clause was redrafted by the committee so as to provide for the distri- 

 bution. We do not want to provide once more for preserving the 

 collections that are to be kept there, and therefore these words ought 

 to be stricken out. 



Mr. HUNTER. I say strike out these words; and then, if you oppose 

 the distribution, vote against the amendment which proposes to insert 

 the other w r ords. 



Mr. FESSENDEN. That is precisely what I am proposing to the Sena- 

 tor from Iowa; to let these words be stricken out, and then bring up 

 the question in that way. 



Mr. J. A. PEARCE. I should like to say to the Senator from Iowa 

 that there are collections enough to supply every college and every 

 scientific institution interested in such matters in the country, and our 

 intention is to supply the whole of them; there can not be any favor- 

 itism; but we must make some small appropriation for it, although 

 we do not propose to pay the transportation. It would not do, for 

 example, to let the president of a college come here and select just 

 what he would pick and carry away. That would produce the very 

 effect which the Senator is so desirous of avoiding. One institution 

 would get too much, perhaps. Somebody must be employed not only 

 to arrange these objects of natural history and classify them, but also 

 to put aside into separate parcels the portions which are to be dis- 

 tributed to the different institutions. For that we are to pay. The 

 Senator can guard against the Government paying the expenses of 

 transportation, if he pleases, by making an amendment to it in this 

 form: "Provided that no part of the said money shall be expended in 



