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deem necessary and wise to secure the use of the same for the advancement of 
science and the instruction and recreation of the people. 
Sec. 8. That the said commission is hereby authorized to call upon the Director of 
the Geological Survey to make such surveys as may be necessary to carry into effect 
the provisions of this act; and the Director of the Geological Survey is hereby 
authorized and required to make such surveys under the direction of said commission. 
Src. 9. That for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act there 
is hereby appropriated, from any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
the sum of dollars. 
Mr. Beck. I ask that the bill be referred to the Committee on Pub- 
lic Grounds. I do not propose to refer it to the Committee on the 
District of Columbia, because it provides for the appointment of a 
commission to be composed of the Secretary of the Interior, the 
president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, 
and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and the friends of 
the measure believe that the enterprise can succeed better with such a 
commission than any other. 
June 4, 1888—Senate. 
Mr. J. S. Morriu offered, from the Committee on Public Buildings 
and Grounds, an amendment to the sundry civil bill for 1889. 
(Same as bill of Mr. J. B. Beck of April 23, 1888.) 
Referred to Committee on Appropriations. 
August 28, 1888—Senate. 
The sundry civil bill for 1889 (H. 10540) being debated, Mr. Wix- 
L1AM B, ALLison remarked: 
The next item is the establishment of a zoological park, $200,000. 
Of course, the House conferees disagree to that. They seem to share 
rather the view of the Senator from Missouri [Mr. George G. Vest], 
that if we were to have a zoological garden we ought to have it in the 
mountains, and inasmuch as we had 60 miles square of ground in 
the neighborhood of the Yellowstone Park set apart and devoted to 
the growth of wild animals we had better dedicate a portion of that 
to a zoological garden. The Senate conferees did not take that view. 
August 31, 1888—House. 
Mr. K. Nretson. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House recede from 
its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate No. 256, relating 
to the proposed zoological garden, and agree to the same. At the 
proper time I wish to be heard on that amendment. 
September 12, 1888—House. 
Mr. K. Nretson. I now move that the House concur in the two hun- 
dred and fifty-sixth amendment of the Senate. 
Mr. J. H. Buounr. I ask that it be read. 
The Speaker (Mr. J. G. Caruisyz). The Clerk will report the 
amendment. 
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