310 HENRY HILL GOODELL 



accompanying it with a report which fully set forth the 

 merits of the measure and the great national importance 

 of the interests it was intended to promote. 



The Senate, in turn, subjected the bill to a searching and 

 thorough discussion, adopted a few useful amendments, 

 and passed it without a dissenting voice. 



When the bill reached the House of Representatives it 

 was referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining, was 

 there fully considered and unanimously reported to the 

 House with a favorable recommendation, as a substitute 

 for one that had been previously reported from the same 

 committee and was then on the House Calendar. The 

 bill was reported by Mr. Mondell, of Wyoming, who had 

 given particular attention to the subject and who accom- 

 panied it with a strong and convincing report. 



Thus the measure stood when Congress adjourned, the 

 pressure of other business preventing this from reaching a 

 vote. The bill as it stood was in the nature of a compromise, 

 and is believed to be just and acceptable to all interests. 

 Several bills relating to the same subject-matter have been 

 before each committee, and the form finally agreed upon 

 seems to embody the best features of all. Your committee 

 recommends that this bill or one of similar import be intro- 

 duced at the earliest practicable moment of the next session 

 of Congress. 



Under the resolution that the executive committee take 

 into consideration the matter of making the collective ex- 

 hibit of the stations a permanent exhibit of the experiment 

 stations at the national capital, and endeavor to make suit- 

 able arrangements for its permanent installation and care 

 at Washington, a communication was sent to the honorable 



