1152 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
Mr. W. H. Forney. I move that the House insist on its disagree- 
ment to that amendment. Before the gentleman from Minnesota com- 
mences I should like to know how much time is proposed to be taken 
up in debate? Iam willing to consent to. an hour’s debate [cries of | 
‘*No!”], and that each side shall have 30 minutes. 
Mr. Netson. I should like to inquire of the gentleman from Ohio 
[Mr. Foran] how long a time he wants? 
Mr. M. A. Foran. Ten minutes. 
Mr. Netson. Very well, then; I am willing to agree to the debate 
being limited to one hour, to be equally divided—thirty minutes on 
each side. 
The Speaker. Is there objection? 
There was no objection, and it was ordered accordingly. 
Mr. W. C. P. Brecxinriper, of Kentucky. I ask, by unanimous 
consent, to print in the Record a paper prepared on this subject. 
There was no objection, and it was ordered accordingly. 
Mr. BreckinripGr, of Kentucky. I do not object to the proposition 
to limit the debate, but Lask leave to have read the accompanying 
paper, prepared at my request. My friend, the senior Senator from 
Kentucky [Mr. Beck], whose enforced absence from this city by rea- 
son of sickness, took great interest in this project, and this, as well as 
other reasons, induced me to look into it; and that the House may have 
the benefit of this paper, I put it into the Record, 
The paper indicated is as follows: 
OBJECTS. 
The object of the zoological park for which this Senate amendment provides is 
declared to be ‘‘the advancement of science, and the instruction and recreation of 
the people.’’ Probably no one will deny that the advancement of science and the 
instruction of the people are objects for the support of which every enlightened gov- 
ernment is in duty bound to provide. Every zoological garden or park is in the 
strictest sense an educational institution of a high order, the same as is every museum 
of science, art, or industry, every marine laboratory and aquarium, and every botanic 
garden; and one may also add without fear of contradiction every public library. 
Although the United States is to-day perhaps the wealthiest nation on the earth, 
and the most prosperous, in comparison with all the nations of Europe, almost with- 
out exception, we are actually poor in such institutions as those mentioned above. 
True, we have in some ways made a good beginning, as for instance in the National 
Museum, the National Library, and a few other similar institutions. 
But although we have made a good beginning in the higher educational institu- 
tions—those which must be established and maintained by national aid everywhere— 
the public is clamorous for more, and, what is more, the public is willing and even 
anxious to pay for what it asks. 
Just as breech-loading fire-arms of precision have been invented by the score and 
manufactured by the hundred thousand, so have the living creatures of our fields 
and forests disappeared, until now he who would seek to study or even to see repre- 
sentatives of what were once our commonest quadrupeds and birds must seek them 
either in museums or zoological gardens. With a fauna that is almost unsurpassed 
in richness and variety of forms, and boundless resources of every kind, the United 
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