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It will be quite unnecessary to make any further appropriation of funds for the 
purpose indicated if the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for the Cincin- 
nati Exposition may be devoted to packing and preparing the exhibits made by the 
Government there, and transferring them to Paris. All that is desired is that 
authority should be given to the various Departments of the Government that have 
articles on hand to use them in the direction indicated. It is proposed by the com- 
missioner-general, who, I believe, has been in correspondence with the authorities 
of the Smithsonian Institution and the Geological Survey, that little more should be 
done than transfer the articles now on exhibition at Cincinnati to Paris. 
A form of a proposed resolution is hereto appended. 
I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, 
G. L. Rives, 
Acting Secretary. 
Hon. JoHN SHERMAN, 
Chairman Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate. 
Inclosure: Joint resolution (proposed). 
Mr. Hoar. The joint resolution is slovenly, unmeaning, and utterly 
unworthy of the Senate or of a legislative body. The Senator from 
Oregon ought to put it in proper shape before it is passed. 
The Geological Survey— 
What is the ‘‘ Geological Survey” as an official ? 
The Geological Survey is hereby authorized to use for exhibition at the Paris 
Exposition of 1889 such articles and cases as may be on hand. 
Where? It is accompanied by a letter saying that it refers to the 
articles which have been already exhibited at Cincinnati. 
The executive and other departments of the Government— 
are also authorized. 
There is no limitation im the joint resolution to articles which have 
been exhibited at Cincinnati. 
Mr. Dorn. I will ask the Senator if he knows of any such resolu- 
tion that has been passed which specifies the articles in the different 
departments which are to be put on exhibition? 
Mr. Hoar. The resolution might at least state, not indicating the 
several articles, that the responsibility of selecting such articles should 
be put upon some official or person named. 
Mr. Dorn. I understand the resolution to do that. It specifies 
the heads of the various bureaus or departments which have the 
articles. 
Mr. Hoar. It seems to me very extraordinary legal phraseology to 
say that the Geological Survey is authorized to send to Paris ‘‘such 
articles and cases as may be on hand.” 
Mr. Doxpu. | am not going to get up a controversy with the Sena- 
tor from Massachusetts about the joint resolution. I did not draw it. 
It was transmitted here by the Department of State 
Mr. Hoar, I shall object to it until it is put in proper form. 
