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I honor all the gentlemen named in the resolution; still I think it has 

 been customary to consider sjich resolutions in committee. 



Mr. STEVENSON. I have no objection to its reference to a committee. 



Mr. JOHN SHERMAN. I think the resolution ought to be referred to 

 the Committee on the Library, which has general charge of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator make that motion ? 



Mr. SHERMAN. Yes, s^r. 



Agreed to. 

 January 5, 1874 House. 



Mr. J. A. GARFIELD introduced a joint resolution providirtg that the 

 vacancies in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of 

 the class other than members of Congress, be filled by the appoint- 

 ment of Asa Gray, J. D. Dana, A. T. Stewart, and the reappointment 

 of John Maclean and Peter Parker. Referred to the Committee on 

 Education and Labor. 

 January 6, 1874 House. 



Mr. HORACE MAYNARD offered a joint resolution (H. 32) in relation 

 to the appointment of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Re- 

 ferred to the Committee on Education and Labor. 

 January 7, 1874 House. 



Mr. I. R. SHERWOOD introduced joint resolution for the appoint- 

 ment of Leo Lesquereux, of Columbus, Ohio, one of the Regents of 

 the Smithsonian Institution. Referred to the Committee on Educa- 

 tion and Labor. 



Mr. JAMES MONROE. The Committee on Education and Labor have 

 had under consideration sundry resolutions in regard to filling vacan- 

 cies in the Board of Regents of. the Smithsonian Institution. Some 

 other gentlemen had asked for an opportunity to suggest names, but 

 there seemed to be reasons for prompt action upon the subject, and 

 the committee, therefore, instructed me to report at once a joint reso- 

 lution naming certain gentlemen to fill these vacancies. 



The resolution now reported by the committee is identical with that 

 which was introduced by the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Garfield], one 

 of the Regents of the Institution, with the exception that in a single 

 name we propose a change, which it is thought would, perhaps, on 

 the whole, more fairly distribute the appointments and meet better 

 certain interests which were deemed by the committee to be of great 

 importance. The highest esteem and respect were felt by the com- 

 mittee for all the gentlemen whose names have been suggested, but, 

 on the whole, the arrangement proposed in the resolution which I now 

 report seemed to the committee to be the best they could make. 



The joint resolution provides that the existing vacancies in the Board 

 of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than 

 members of Congress, shall be filled by the appointment of Asa Gray, 



