LIAB CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
February 19, 1889—House. 
Sundry civil bill considered. 
The next amendment was, on page 41, after line 9, to insert: 
Purchase of Capron collection of Japanese works of art: For the purchase of the 
Capron collection of Japanese works of art, now on temporary deposit in the National 
Museum at Washington, D. C., $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 
The amendment was agreed to. 
[This item failed, but was passed March 3, 1891. | 
ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY. 
December 22, 1887—House. 
Deficiency estimates for 1887, ete. 
To reimburse the appropriation for the erection of a building for 
the Army Medical Museum and Library by the amount expended in 
moving a large wooden building belonging to the National Museum, 
so as to clear the site selected for the building in question, $245. 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 
Washington, D. C., January 6, 1887. 
Str: I respectfully ask that the following item be inserted in the deficiency bill 
which you are about transmitting to Congress: 
To reimburse the appropriation for the erection of a building for the Army Medical 
Museum and Library by the amount for the building in question, $245. 
The annexed building in question was erected several years ago, for the pur- 
pose of carrying out a provision of Congress for the participation by the National 
Museum, United States Fish Commission, and the United States Geological Survey 
in the New Orleans National Exhibition, and had been placed where it was most con- 
venient at the time. Subsequently, when a site was selected for the new building 
for the Army Medical Museum, this construction was found to encroach to such an 
extent as to make it necessary to move it some 50 or more feet, and as there was no 
appropriation available for the purpose, it was done at the expense of the appropria- 
tion for the construction of the Army Medical Museum building, the demands upon 
which have been very great, so as to naturally induce the desire for reimbursal. 
Unfortunately the National Museum has no funds applicable to this purpose, and 
the subject is respectfully transmitted to Congress for its action. 
Very respectfully, 
Spencer F. Barrp, 
Secretary Smithsonian Institution. 
Hon. Danie, MANNING, 
Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C. 
Referred to Committee on Appropriations. 
SEMON BACHE & CO. 
December 22, 1887—House. 
Deficiency estimates for 1887, etc. 
To refund the duty paid by Semon Bache & Co., of New York, 
upon glass from imported stock furnished to the National Museum and 
