716 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



'institution; the same to be stereotyped, at the expense heretofore pro- 

 vided for. 



July 25, 1868. The following resolution was passed : 



Resolved, $c., That the Congressional Printer, whenever he shall he so 

 directed by the Joint Committee on the Library, be, and he hereby is, di- 

 rected to print fifty copies, in addition to the regular number, of all docu- 

 ments hereafter printed by order of either House of Congress, or by order 

 of any department or bureau of the Government, and whenever he shall 

 be so directed by the Joint Committee on the Library, one hundred 

 copies additional of all documents ordered to be printed in excess of tho 

 usual number ; said fifty or one hundred copies to be delivered to the Libra- 

 rian of Congress, to be exchanged, under direction of the Joint Committee 

 on the Library, as provided by joint resolution approved March 2, 1867. 



SEC. 2. And be it further resolved, That fifty copies of each publication 

 printed under direction of any department or 'bureau of the Government, 

 whether at the Congressional Printing Office or elsewhere, shall be placed 

 at the disposal of the Joint Committee on the Library, to carry out tho 

 provisions of said resolution. 



February 13, 1869. Annual report of Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, for 1868, presented, and ordered to be printed. 



Mr. PRUYN offered a resolution to have 5,000 extra copies 

 printed. 



Mr. INGERSOLL moved to increase the number of extra 

 copies to 10,000, on account of the value of the document. 



February 27, 1869. Mr. LAFLIN, from the Committee 

 on Printing, reported the following resolution, which was 

 adopted : 



Resolved, That there be printed 5,000 extra copies of the report of the 

 Smithsonian Institution ; 3,000 for the use of the House, and 2,000 for the 

 use of the institution ; the sume to be stereotyped, at the expense heretofore 

 provided for. 



March 1, 1869. The House having under consideration 

 the miscellaneous appropriation bill, the clerk read the fol- 

 lowing amendment : 



For the preservation of the collections of the exploring and surveying 

 expeditions of the Government, $4,000. 



Mr. GARFIELD. I move to amend this paragraph by 

 striking out " &4.000 " and inserting "$10,000." And I 

 wish briefly to call the attention of the Committee of the 

 Whole to the facts upon which I base my motion. 



In 1846, when the Smithsonian Institution was founded, 

 the Government of the United States, by a law of Congress, 

 transferred to that institution all the articles now belonging 

 to the museum which the Government then owned. At 

 that time it was costing $4,000 a year to take care of and 

 preserve those articles. Since then a great number of ex- 

 ploring expeditions have been sent out by the Government, 

 .and large additions have been made to the museum ; and 



