968 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



resolution is l>efore the Senate as in Committee of the Whole and 

 will be read. 



Whereas William H. Vanderbilt and Julia Dent Grant have, by deed of trust 

 executed on the 10th d<ty of January, 1885, presented to the United States certain 

 swords, medals, paintings, bronzes, portraits, commissions, and addresses, and objects 

 of value and art presented by various governments in the world to General Ulysses 

 S. Grant, as tokens of their high appreciation of his illustrious character as a soldier 

 and a statesman: Therefore 



Be it resolved, etc., That the United States accepts the said property and articles, 

 more fully described in the schedule attached to said deed of trust, to be held by the 

 United States and preserved and protected in the city of Washington for the use and 

 inspection of the people of the United States. And the thanks of Congress are hereby 

 tendered to the said William H. Vanderbilt and Julia Dent Grant for their generous 

 and valuable gift. 



Resolved, That the said property and articles are placed under the custody of the 

 Librarian of Congress; and the Secretary of War is hereby directed to receive the 

 same for safe-keeping and custody in the Department of War until they can be trans- 

 ported by the Librarian of Congress to a suitable building to be provided for the use 

 of the Library of Congress. 



Passed. 



The preamble was agreed to. 



DOCUMENTS. 



February 9, 1885. 



Joint resolution approved for printing and distributing "Descrip- 

 tive Catalogue of Government Publications," provided two copies for 

 the Smithsonian Institution, and fifty for foreign exchanges. 



(Stat., XXIII, p. 517.) 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (ENTOMOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY.) 



February 20, 1885 Senate. 



The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, considered the bill 

 (H. 8030), making appropriation for the Agricultural Department for 

 the year 1886. 



Mr. W. MILLER, of New York. I am instructed by the Committee 

 on Agriculture and Forestry to move an amendment, in line 57, to strike 

 out the word "twenty" and insert "thirty;" and also in the same line 

 to strike out "twenty" and insert "thirty;" so as to read: 



And other expenses on the practical work of entomological division, $30,000; in 

 all, $37,900. 



The occasion for this increase arises in this wise. In line 51 there 

 has been inserted in this bill a clause including: 



And for the promotion of economic ornithology, or the study of the interrelation 

 of birds and agriculture, an investigation of the food, habits, and migration of birds 

 in relation to both insects and plants, and publishing report thereon, for drawings, 

 and for chemicals and traveling and other expenses. 



