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amendment reported by the Committee on Appropriations, I desire to 
withdraw the amendment I offered. 
Mr. Brcx. I am very glad of it. The sum ought to be $50,000. 
The PresipENtT pro tempore. The amendment of the Senator from 
Illinois to the amendment of the Committee on Appropriations is 
withdrawn. 
Mr. Reacan. I offer a substitute for the amendment of the Gaia 
mittee on Appropriations, which I ask to have read. 
The PrEestDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Kentucky is entitled 
to the floor. Does he yield to the Senator from Texas? 
Mr. Brecx. Certainly; I have no object or purpose except to tell 
what I know and give my reasons for voting as I propose to do. 
The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment proposed by the Sen- 
ator from Texas to the amendment of the Committee on Appropria- 
tions will be read. 
The Chief Clerk read as follows: 
For rent of house of the late Spencer F. Baird for the United States Fish Commis- 
sion, and for his services as United States Fish Commissioner from 1871 to 1886, 
$25,000. 
Mr. Beck. Mr. President, another thing I might add as an instance. 
The Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Dawes] very well knows that 
until Professor Baird took charge of the Fish Commission work and 
amplified it, and spent every hour that any man could very well spend 
at labor, up to that time he was writing, as he had the right to do, for 
scientific magazines and works all over the world, and was realizing 
large sums of money to eke out the salary that was paid him by the 
Smithsonian Institution. : 
When he took up this work and found that its success depended on 
his exertions he devoted all his time to it, and all that source of income 
was cut off from him and his family, and he was unable to earn a dol- 
lar because of the immense labor he was performing in the Fish Com- 
mission, added to his Smithsonian work, and I doubt if he ever after- 
wards earned anything for himself, which he was well able to do by 
the use of his pen or by his scientific researches that would have 
brought him in large sums of money from that source. 
Mr. Harris. What was his salary ? 
Mr. Brcx. Six thousand dollars. He has never drawn a dollar 
from the United States—not a penny—in all these years, and he could , 
have made $6,000 more a year with his ability by the use of his pen 
otherwise than in the employment of the Smithsonian Institution and 
not lost an hour nor a’ minute from the work of the Smithsonian: but 
for the work he was doing for us. 
Mr. James Z. Grorcr. Can the Senator state about the condition of 
his family at present? 
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