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institutions belong to them as well as to the people of Washington. 
You have a National Observatory here, too. It is national in its char- 
acter and belongs to the whole country. This zoological garden will 
belong not to this city alone, but to the whole United States. It 
will be a place where every resident, every sojourner, and visitor will 
delight to go, for there will be found types of all living animals in 
our zoological geography, as well as specimens of the remains of all 
extinct fauna found in the same zone. Animals and specimens of 
fauna from other countries will also be found there. It will be a 
great national educator, and I am heartily in favor of it. 
Mr. Forney. I yield now to the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. 
Bland]. 
Mr. R. P. Buanp. Mr. Speaker, I think my friend from Alabama 
has not made a very good comparison when he compared this appro- 
priation with the one which has just been made in another bill... The 
object of that was to subserve the interests of the great mass of the 
people. It was an antimonopoly measure, to prevent certain things 
from going into the hands of monopoly, in aid of which there was an 
expenditure of the money of the people. But here is an aristocratic 
measure, just the reverse of that, intended to beautify and adorn pri- 
vate property and enhance the value of real estate in the city of 
Washington at the public expense. While it is doing so it fails to 
provide that these private individuals shall contribute one cent to the 
expense of it. . 
Now, if the States throughout the country have established the parks 
for their own adornment, use, and benefit, let the city of Washington 
do the same, and if the people here want to go into the show business, 
let them do so at their own expense. So far as the people of this 
country are concerned, they are quite willing, if left to themselves, in 
a proper manner to provide parks and adornments for their own cities 
and the capitals of the States; but it is not right and proper to tax, for 
the purpose of ‘‘ bulling” the real-estate market of the city of Wash- 
ington, the people of this country; and that is all this does. 
Why, Mr. Speaker, if gentlemen want to study this science, and the 
habits of monkeys, bears, and elephants, I suppose it would be better 
to go into the country where they are grown and reared, and study 
their habits in their native homes. But to bring them here for 
‘*scientific” purposes is not a proper use of the word. It is not in 
the interest of science in any manner, but simply in the interest of , 
curiosity; and hundreds of the people of my State would prefer, if 
this circus is to be inaugurated, that it shall be carried around; and 
that if it is for their benefit, and for the benefit of their science, that 
it shall be put on wheels. Let us organize it in that way. I believe 
the gentleman from Texas has an amendment to that effect. Let us 
organize the menagerie, appoint the clown, get all the actors, and visit 
