1116 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
shall be prepared and arranged with a view to concise statement and 
convenient reference. 
(Stat., XX'V, 620.) 
October 10, 1888—Senate. 
Mr. J. N. Doxrn introduced a joint resolution (S. 115): 
Resolved, etc., That the Executive and other Departments of the Government, the 
National Museum, the Geological Survey, and the Smithsonian Institute, be, and 
they are hereby, authorized to use for exhibition at the Paris Exposition of 1889 
such articles and cases as may be on hand and for which space can be obtained; and 
that any unexpended balance of the appropriation for the Cincinnati Exhibition of 
1888 may be applied for the preparation and boxing of such exhibits. 
Mr. Dotex. This joint resolution was handed to me by an officer of 
the State Department to-day. He came here to see the chairman of 
the Committee on Foreign Relations, who is absent. The resolution, 
I think, will meet no opposition. I have consulted all the members of 
the Committee on Foreign Relations who are present to-day, and all 
are in favor of the resolution and agree to its being pat upon its pas- 
sage now. 
Mr. Gro. F. Hoar. What does the joint a Aaiees comprehend? 
It seems to be pretty vague in description. I should like to have it 
read once more. 
The President pro tempore (Mr. J. J. Incauts). The joint resolu- 
tion will be read the second time at length. 
The joint resolution was read the second time. 
Mr. Hoar. I do not understand what the phrase means, ‘‘the 
Executive and other Departments of the Government.” _ What are the 
‘other Departments ” ? 
Mr. Dorn. I understand that the articles which it is proposed to 
place on exhibition at the Paris Exposition are the articles which are 
now on exhibition at Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Mr. Hoar. The joint resolution does not say so. 
Mr. Dorn. I send to the desk and ask to have read a letter from 
the Acting Secretary of State to the chairman of the committee, which 
was handed to me in the absence of the chairman. 
The PresmpENT pro tempore. The letter will be read, if there be no 
objection. 
The Secretary read as follows: 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 
Washington, October 10, 1888. 
Sir: The attention of this Department has been called to the fact that, without 
Congressional action, the Director of the National Museum will have no authority to 
have articles shipped from that collection to Paris. The same is true of articles in 
the possession of the Smithsonian Institution and the Bureau of Ethnology, all of 
which departments of the Goyernment would be able at trifling expense, if author- 
ized to do so, to make a satisfactory and creditable display at the Paris Exposition 
which opens in May, 1889. 
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