1174 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
The PrestpENT pro tempore. The Chair holds that the Senate 
decides that the amendment is relevant. The question recurs upon 
agreeing to the amendment of the Senator from Vermont [Mr. 
Edmunds]. 
Mr. Morritu. Mr. President, 1 was observing merely that it was 
important to have early action if it was intended to preserve the ani- 
mals peculiar to this continent. I understand that the Smithsonian 
Institution have had quite a number already donated to them, and 
although they are not seeking the employment of taking care of this 
zoological park or of these animals, yet if the duty is devolved upon 
them by Congress they will undertake it. 
So far as the park is concerned it is absolutely indispensable that 
action shall be taken at an early day if it is intended to have this park, 
which is said to be the most desirable spot, perhaps, in the whole coun- 
try and which has already been surveyed. Unless it is taken hold of 
immediately it is very likely to be grabbed by a syndicate of specula- 
tors, and when it shall be undertaken to improve it with streets and 
with city lots it would be entirely ruined as a zoological park. 
Therefore the earliest action possible is necessary if we would be 
sure to locate the park where it is supposed to be very desirable to 
have it located. 
Mr. Hoar. Mr. President, | had my attention called to this scheme 
some time since, and have always very earnestly favored it. I think 
the establishment of such a place of wholesome recreation and instruc- 
tion for the youth, for the children,and for the poorer people of a 
large city is eminently wise, and that it is entirely fitting that it should 
be procured here at the national capital at the national expense. 
The purpose in raising the question has not been to defeat or to 
attempt to defeat the proposition, but only to have the Senate decide 
asa precedent for other cases the question of order, which has been 
raised sometimes in like cases where I thought it could not be fairly 
sustained; and having accomplished that purpose I am content. 
The Presiding Officer (Mr. J. K. Jones of Arkansas in the chair). 
The question is on the adoption of the amendment offered by the 
Senator from Vermont [Mr. Edmunds]. 
The amendment was agreed to. 
The bill was read the third time and passed. 
Mr. Preston B. PLums. I move that the Senate insist on its amend- 
ments to the bill and request a conference with the House of Repre- 
sentatives on the bill and amendments. 
The motion was agreed to. 
February 2, 1889—House. 
Mr. Samurt Diese, from the Committee on Public Buildings and 
Grounds, submitted a report (H. 3907) to accompany bill (H. 11810): 
The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds to which was 
