1230 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
Mr. Jonn SHERMAN. Task the Senator from Vermont if this build- 
ing will correspond with the National Museum building? 
Mr. Morrittz. It will, but it is one story higher. 
Mr. Suerman. Is the old building of the National Museum full? 
Mr. Morriiu. It is more than full. They have more than enough 
to fill another building of equal size. The proposed building will con- 
tain room equal to three times the present amount of the existing 
Museum, and the pressing necessity for it will be seen by the report 
that is ends and by the urgency of the officers of the Smithsonian 
Institution that the bill shall be acted upon at the present session. 
Mr. J. B. Beck. I rose to make an inquiry of the Senator from Ver- 
mont. I did not observe any provision made as to who is to superin- 
tend the building, or at what time it shall be finished, or anything in 
that regard. The bill seems too indefinite. 
Mr. Morritu. The Senator knows that so far as the Regents of the 
Institution are concerned the other building was constructed in an 
extremely short time and very economically. 
Mr. Breck. I know it was. Iask if the building is to go on under 
the same general supervision that built the Museum a few years ago. 
Mr. Morritu. The bills are precisely identical in language. 
Mr. Brecx. Then it is all right. 
Mr. Morritx. There is a single verbal amendment that I desire to 
have made. 
The President pro tempore (Mr. J. J. INGALLs. ) The amendment 
will be stated. 
The Cuter CLERK. In line 11, after the word ‘‘Grounds,” it is pro- 
posed to insert the words ‘‘of the Senate,” so as to read: 
In accordance with the plans now on file with the Committee on Public Build- 
ings and Grounds of the Senate. 
The amendment was agreed to. 
Passed. 
June 19, 1888—Senate. 
An estimate was received from the Smithsonian Institution: 
New National Museum building: For the construction in a fireproof manner of an 
additional Museum building, to be erected under the direction of the Regents of the 
Smithsonian Institution on the southwest corner of the grounds of the Smithsonian ° 
Institution, $500,000. 
Referred to Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds.’ 
June 20, 1888—House. 
The bill (S. 3134) for the erection of an additional fireproof build- 
ing for the use of the National Museum was referred to Committee 
on Public Buildings and Grounds. 
1This appropriation was not acted upon by the House. For full explanation of the 
necessity for this new building see Senate Report 1539. 
