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an aqueduct tunnel or otherwise, because it has the authority to do so; 
but the people of this District before they can do anything of the kind 
proposed, and before even they can expend their own money for any 
public purpose, must first get the authority of Congress to do it. If 
you are in favor of it, then it becomes all right; but otherwise they 
can do nothing. 
Mr. Harcn. Will my colleague permit me to ask him a question 4 
Mr. Hearp. Certainly. 
Mr. Hatcn. Does the gentleman say that a million of dollars was 
wasted on the aqueduct tunnel? 
Mr. Hearp. I understand two millions of dollars were wasted upon 
that tunnel; and one million comes out of the treasury of the District 
of Columbia, though the waste occurred through no fault of hers, but 
by the negligence or misconduct of those acting for the Government. 
Mr. Harcu. Was not that bill reported by the Committee on the 
District of Columbia? . 
Mr. Harp. No, sir; it was not. That committee had nothing what- 
ever to do with it. 
Mr. Harcu. Who made the appropriation / 
Mr. Hearp. I am not prepared to answer who made the appropria- 
tion; but the District of Columbia could not do it, and I suppose of 
course the Committee on Appropriations. 
Mr. Buount. I can answer that question if I am allowed to do so. 
The Speaker. The gentleman’s time has expired. 
Mr. Ranpauu. I want to put the saddle on the right horse. If I 
remember correctly, that proposition originated in the Forty-seventh 
Congress. 
Mr. Hearp. That is beyond my memory of things here. I mean it 
did not come from the present Committee on the District of Columbia. 
Mr. Ranpautu. The gentleman said that it did not come from the 
District Committee. 
Mr. Hearp. Not since I have been a member of that committee, 
during the last four years. 
Mr. Ranpatu. I do not want any misunderstanding in this matter. 
My impression is, and I make the statement subject to review here- 
after when I have made examination, that this aqueduct-tunnel project 
came from the Senate in the Forty-seventh Congress. 
Mr. Hearp. But not from the District Committee. 
Mr. Ranpa.u. It came originally from that committee, if I recollect 
aright, and my friend from West Virginia [Mr. Wilson] corroborates 
that statement. 
As the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Heard] has alluded to the 
Committee on Appropriations, I will merely remark that committee 
has resisted all along, under the leadership of the gentleman from 
West Virginia, the whole of this procedure. 
