1148 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
The committee, under this statement and a letter from the Secretary 
of the Smithsonian Institution, increased the anfount in the bill $5,000 
and did not allow them the $27,000 they asked for. 
Mr. Reacan. I think a criticism of the terms of this item is proper. 
The language is: 
International exchanges: For expenses of the system of international exchanges 
between the United States and foreign countries, under direction of the Smithsonian 
Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, $20,000. 
It seems to me, if it is necessary that the Government should make 
appropriations at all for this purpose, that what they are made for 
should be specified, and not brought in in a lump in this way. For 
instance, if there is a secretary provided for at $6,000, it ought to be 
so stated. If there is an assistant secretary at $5,000, the clause ought 
to say so. 
Mr. Auuison. I will say to the Senator from Texas that I believe 
there is no person employed in this work who receives a salary greater 
than $960. The entire exchange system involves the transfer to the 
Library of Congress of all the books obtained from abroad. 
Mr. Reacan. I dislike to be causing delay and perhaps annoyance 
to the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, but when he 
says no person receives more than $960, let me ask if that statement 
is meant to embrace the Secretary of the association ? 
Mr. Auuison. The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ? 
Mr. Reacan. Yes, sir. 
Mr. Atxison. Oh, no; the Secretary is not paid out of this appro- 
priation. Some years ago Congress directed that the exchanges of 
books with foreign countries should be under the direction of the Sec- 
retary of the Smithsonian Institution. Now, it is but fair that the 
Government of the United States should be at the expense, whatever 
it may be. Of course those exchanges require more or less clerical 
service, correspondence, etc., and also require that a careful statement 
shall be made there and an account kept of all the books that are trans- 
mitted or are transferred to the Library of Congress, and it is for this 
service that this appropriation is made. 
The President pro tempore (Mr. J. J. Incauts). The amendment has 
been agreed to. 
October 2, 1888. 
Sundry civil act for 1889. 
Geological Survey: For the purchase of necessary books for the 
library, and the payment for the transmission of public documents 
through the Smithsonian exchange, $5,000. 
(Stat., XXV, 527.) 
For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the 
United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smith- 
