1196 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
The amendment provides for the establishment of a zoological park 
in the District of Columbia ‘‘for the advancement of science!” A 
bear garden is to be established ‘‘for the advancement of science!” 
You are already paying, gentlemen, as the representatives of a hard- 
worked, tax-paying people one-half of the expenses connected with the 
government of this city. This itself is unjust and should not have 
been begun. Youare required by the proposed amendment not only 
to pay for this land, but to buy the monkeys and then pay for their 
keeping. 
Barnum is to have a new rival in his ‘‘animal industry,” and the 
people of the United States who can not get to Washington are to 
‘‘pay the fiddler” for others’ dancing. Gibbon tells us love of the 
circus and fights of wild beasts characterized the degeneracy of the 
Romans. To gratify this morbid fondness for display of wild beasts 
one of Rome’s distinguished statesmen urged Cicero to hurry and send 
to the ‘* Eternal City ” the tigers, lions, etc., necessary for his approach- 
ing show. . 
Are we following in their footsteps and anxious to imitate their 
decline? I must enter my most solemn protest against saddling still 
further indebtedness upon the people of the United States for the pur- 
chase of land at $2,000 an acre, to be followed by the expense of keep- 
* ing up a zoological garden here in this city. Let us perform the 
duties legitimately devolving upon us, and not attempt to rival circus 
and menagerie owners in the show business. 
[Here the hammer fell. | 
Mr. Cxiements. I would like to inquire whether the gentleman from 
South Carolina [Mr. Hemphill] proposes to— 
Mr. Hempuitt. I will state that I am quite anxious to reach a vote, 
for the hour is now late; but I promised five minutes to the gentleman 
from Missouri [Mr. Heard] and five minutes to the gentleman from 
Maryland; and after that I want to say a word or two myself. I will 
then call the previous question. 
Mr. Ranpatu. Oh, no; you have not the control of this bill. 
Mr. Hempniiy. | mean the previous question on the resolution. 
Mr. Ranpauu. That has only been read for information. 
Mr. Hemputtt. I yield five minutes to the gentleman from Missouri 
[Mr. Heard]. 
Mr. Hrarp. Mr. Speaker, I am not unmindful of the fact that the 
House is impatient for a vote. I can not afford to ignore that fact 
any more than my audience can afford to listen to me when it is already 
tired. But I rise to protest mildly against the course of argumenta- 
tion which has been pursued in opposition to the position of my friend 
from South Carolina [Mr. Hemphill]. It may be all right for the dis- 
tinguished gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. McMillin] to inveigh in 
general against the policy of establishing zoological gardens, although 
