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simply an intellectual feast for certain classes of men this bill gives 

 $25,000. * * * 



Mr. JAMES H. BLOUNT. The gentleman [Mr. Manning] started out 

 by saying that he did not propose to attack me, but he calls attention 

 to the appropriation in this bill for ethnology- 

 Mr. MANNING. And I call attention also to the paragraph just 

 passed, appropriating $60,000 for displaying upon the shelves of the 

 National Museum "the collections of geology, mineralogy, natural 

 history, ethnolog} T , and technology," which contribute nothing at all 

 to anybody's material advancement. 



Mr. BLOUNT. If I had my own way about it, ethnology and a good 

 many other things would not be in this bill. I do not stand here as 

 the representative of my individual views, but I have charge of the 

 bill as the organ of the committee, and as such I propose to stand by 

 their conclusions. 



March 3, 1881. 



Sundry civil act for 1882. 



For cases, furniture, and fixtures required for the exhibition of 

 the collections of geology, mineralogy, natural history, ethnology, 

 and technology, belonging to the United States, $60,000. 



For expense of heating, lighting, telephonic and electrical service 

 for the new Museum building, $6, 000. 



(Stat., XXI, 449.) 



For preservation and care of the collections of the surveying and 

 exploring expeditions of the Government, $55,000. 



Armory building: For expense of watching, care, and storage of 

 duplicate Government collections, and of property of the United States 

 Fish Commission, $2,500. 



(Stat., XXI, 452.) 



March 3, 1881. 



Deficiency act for 1881, etc. 



For additional amount required for running the relieving sewer of 

 the National Museum building into the north B street sewer instead 

 of into the Seventh street sewer, $900. 



For expense of transfer to and arrangement in the new National 

 Museum building of the collections of the United States surveying 

 and exploring expeditions, and of the specimens presented to the 

 United States at the International Exhibition of 1876, $10,000, being 

 for the service of the current fiscal year. 



(Stat, XXI, 418.) 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS NEW BUILDING. 

 December 1, 1879. 



Iii his message to Congress, the President (Rutherford B. Hayes) 

 said: 



To preserve and perpetuate the national literature should be among the foremost 

 cares of the National Legislature. The library gathered at the Capitol still remains 



