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tain ing the position taken by the Senator from Vermont, who is also 

 a member of the Board of Regents, was that there is to be some very 

 valuable improvement soon made in the Smithsonian building, and 

 General Meigs is an architect of distinguished reputation and his 

 appointment as a member of the Board of Regents, he living here in 

 Washington, would be eminently proper. I think he ought to go on 

 that board. His well-known character we thought was ample to jus- 

 tify the appointment without a reference to a committee. 



The joint resolution was reported to the Senate without amendment. 



Mr. J. T. MORGAN. I hope that the resolution will pass, although I 

 consider that it is a little hasty for us to act, as the Senator from 

 Kansas has suggested, without the advice of any committee, but I do 

 not wish it to be understood that I vote for it on the ground stated by 

 the Senator from Texas, that of General Meigs's architectural capacity 

 or ability, for if we take the new Pension Office here as a sample of 

 it, and we undertake in advance to refer that to the judgment and 

 taste of the people of the United States, we shall make a very wide 

 mistake. I shall vote for General Meigs because I think he is a scien- 

 tist, not because I think he is an architect. 



Passed. 

 December 18, 1885 House. 



Mr. WILLIAM L. WILSON, of West Virginia, called up joint resolu- 

 tion (S. 1). Adopted. 

 December 26, 1885. 



Resolved, etc., 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 reappointment of John Maclean, of 

 New Jersey; Asa Gray, of Massachusetts; Henry Coppee, of Penn- 

 sylvania; and the appointment of Montgomery C. Meigs, of the city 

 of Washington, vice William T. Sherman, whose term has expired 

 and who is no longer a citizen of Washington. 



(Stat., XXIV, 339.) 

 December 21, 1886 Senate. 



Mr. JUSTIN S. MORRILL introduced a joint resolution (S. 90) appoint- 

 ing James B. Angell a member of the Board of Regents of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



Referred to Committee on the Library. 

 December 21, 1886 Senate. 



Mr. WILLIAM J. SEWELL, from Committee on the Library, reported 

 S. 90 favorably. 



Resolved, etc., That the existing vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution of the class "other than members of Congress" shall be filled by the 

 appointment of James B. Angell, of the State of Michigan, in place of John Maclean, 

 deceased. 



Adopted. 



