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all the States and capitals of the country, and give the people the 
benefit, as they have to foot the bill for the performance, and not 
restrict it alone to the city of Washington. 
I am opposed to the amendment and to all appropriations of the 
public money that go simply to the benefit of the rich and aristocratic 
classes; and I repeat if they desire the menagerie here, and the estab- 
lishment of a zoological garden for the benefit of the people of the city 
of Washington, let them foot the bill. The people of this country 
ought not to be expected to do it. 
Mr. Netson. Has the time in opposition been exhausted 4 
The Speaker. There are seven minutes remaining to the gentleman 
from Alabama, and twelve minutes to the gentleman from Minnesota. 
Mr. Netson. I propose to close the debate, and I hope the gentle- 
man from Alabama will exhaust the time on that side. 
Mr. D. Kerr. I would like a minute or two. 
Mr. Forney. On which side? 
Mr. Kerr. On your side. 
Mr. Forney. I yield two minutes to the gentleman. 
Mr. Kerr. Mr. Speaker, I do not think that we ought to appro- 
priate the public money for any such purpose. There are certain pur- 
poses connected with the administration of the Government in the 
District of Columbia in which it is necessary for us to appropriate 
money and incidentally thereby to improve the city. This necessarily 
results in large benefit to the city; but I do not see why the city of 
Washington ought not to be left to provide its own zoological garden 
if it desires one. There is not one boy or man in five hundred through- 
out this country that ever comes here, or will come and get any 
benefit from the establishment of the garden here, and for that reason 
I do not think the public money ought to be appropriated for any such 
purpose. 
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Mr. Forney. I yield now to the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. 
Blount]. 
Mr. Jas. H. Buounr. Mr. Speaker, I do not rise to go into the gen- 
eral discussion of the pending matter, but to call attention to one sin- 
gle fact, one paragraph of this amendment [to the sundry civil bill for 
1890], and that is: 
That the said commission is hereby authorized and directed to make an inspection 
of the country along Rock Creek, beginning at the point on that creek where the 
Woodley road crosses said creek, and extending upward along its course to where 
said creek is crossed by the Klingle road, and to select from that district of country 
such a tract of land, of not less than 100 acres, which shall include a section of the 
creek, as said commission shall deem to be suitable and appropriate for a zoological 
park. 
There never happens a time, sir, when the Government of the United 
States needs land for any purpose that the land it owns or is in pos- 
