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1218 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
Mr. Wiuiiam H. Sowpen. [I request that the amendment be reported, 
so that we may know how to vote. 
Mr. Dresux. A parliamentary inquiry. 
The SpEakeER pro tempore. The gentleman will state it. ° 
Mr. Diresux. The question I desire to ask is whether a vote ‘‘ aye” 
now is an agreement to an expenditure of $200,000 for a zoological 
garden, reported by the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds? 
The SPEAKER pro tempore. That is the pending question. The gen- 
tleman from South Carolina submitted a motion to the House that the 
House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate 
numbered 124, appropriating $200,000 for a zoological garden, and 
upon that question the gentleman from Georgia demands the yeas and 
nays. 
The yeas and nays were ordered. 
The question was taken; and it was decided in the affirmative—yeas, 
131; nays, 98; not voting, 94. 
So the House receded from its disagreement to the amendment of 
the Senate numbered 124, and the act passed the House, including a 
provision for the establishment of the zoological park. 
1889, March 2. 
District of Columbia act for 1890. 
Src. 4. For the establishment of a zoological park in the District of 
Columbia, $200,000, to be expended under and in accordance with the 
provisions following, that is to say: 
That in order to establish a zoological park in the District of Colum- 
bia, for the advancement of science and the instruction and recreation 
of the people, a commission shall be constituted, composed of three 
persons, namely: The Secretary of the Interior, the president of the 
Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and the Secre- 
tary of the Smithsonian Institution, which shall be known and desig- 
nated as the commission for the establishment of a zoological park. 
That the said commission is hereby authorized and directed to make 
an inspection of the country along Rock Creek, between Massachu- 
setts avenue extended and where said creek is crossed by the road 
leading west from Brightwood crosses said creek, 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. 
That the said commission shall cause to be made a careful map of 
said zoological park, showing the location, quantity, and character of 
each parcel of private property to be taken for such purpose, with the 
names of the respective owners inscribed thereon, and the said map 
