1212 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
Mr. Joun J. Hemeniiy. I desire simply to submit an amendment 
to the amendment of my colleague [Mr. Dibble], which I will ask to 
have read. 
The Clerk read as follows: 
Amend by adding— 
‘‘And agree to the same with an amendment as folows: 
“That the sum of $1,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and 
the same is hereby, appropriated, from any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, to procure a national park in the District of Columbia of not less than 
1,000 acres: Provided, That one-half of said sum shall be paid from the revenues of 
the District of Columbia and the balance from any money in the Treasury not other- 
wise appropriated: Provided further, That the abutting property that may be bene- ~ 
fited by the laying out of said park shall be charged with the amount of the increased 
value arising from the same, and the sum soassessed and recovered shall be returned 
to the United States Treasury and the District of Columbia in the proportion in 
which their funds are herein appropriated.’”’ 
Mr. Ranpatu. I do not think that proposition is in order as an 
amendment to the proposition of the gentleman from South Carolina 
[Mr. Dibble]. 
The Speaker. The gentleman from Pennsylvania makes a point of 
order against this amendment. The Chair thinks that while no point 
of order can be made in the House against any provision inserted in a 
conference report, except upon the ground that it changes or strikes 
out some provision previously agreed to by both Houses, yet when the 
House itself comes to adopt amendments to Senate amendmerts, the 
amendments offered here must be germane and are governed by the 
rules which govern the ordinary proceedings of the House in the con- 
sideration of appropriation bills. 
Mr. Ranpauu. The point I make, however, is that this amendment 
is not admissible as an amendment to the amendment of the gentleman 
from South Carolina, for it would not have been in order originally in 
the House. 
The SPEAKER. This is a proposition to agree to a Senate amendment 
with an amendment which the Chair thinks is not germane to the Sen- 
ate amendment. . 
Mr. Hemeniwy. If | change my proposition so as to provide for a 
zoological park of 1,000 acres, will not that be in order? 
The Speaker. Anything relating to the zoological park, which is 
the subject of the Senate amendment, would be in order if germane to 
the provisions of that amendment, which the Chair has not yet read. 
Mr. Hempuiiy. I modify my amendment by striking out ‘‘ national 
park” and inserting *‘ zoological park.” 
Mr. Ranpatu. I submit that the gentleman can not do indirectly 
what he can not do directly. 
The Speaker. The gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. Hemp- 
hill] proposes now to withdraw his previous proposition and offer one 
