1268 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
December 18, 1888—House. 
Letter presented from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 
(S. P. Langley) concerning expenditures for International Exchanges, 
the National Museum, and North American Ethnology for the fiscal 
year 1888. 
December 19, 1888—House. 
Above letter referred to Committee on Appropriations. 
GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS RESTRICTED TO PUBLIC BUSINESS. 
October 2, 1888. 
Sundry civil act for 1889. 
The heads of the Executive Departments, before transmitting their 
annual reports to Congress, the printing of which is chargeable to — 
this appropriation, shall cause the same to be carefully examined, and 
shall exclude therefrom all matter, including engravings, maps, draw- 
ings, and illustrations, except such as they shall certify in their letters 
transmitting such reports to be necessary and to relate entirely to the 
transaction of public business. 
(Stat., XXV, 547.) 
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BUILDING. 
December 10, 1888—Senate. 
Mr. O. H. Puart introduced a bill (S. 3684): 
That a fireproof building for the accommodation of the Geological Survey shall be 
erected on the Government reservation between the National Museum and the Army 
Medical Museum, in the city of Washington; said building shall be constructed on 
the plan submitted by the Director of the Geological Survey, with such modifica- 
tions as shall be found necessary or advantageous without materially increasing the 
cost thereof, and the construction of said building shall be in charge of a commission 
composed of the First Assistant Secretary of the Interior, the Architect of the Capi- 
tol, and the Director of the Geological Survey, who shall be authorized to make 
contracts for the construction thereof, after proper advertisements have been made, 
and to employ the necessary persons; the money appropriated for said building shall 
be disbursed by the chief disbursing clerk of the Geological Survey, and the sum of 
$600,000 is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, for the construction of said building, and the cost of said building shall 
not exceed said amount; and it shall be the duty of the said commission carefully to 
scrutinize the plan which may be deemed preferable, and to adopt it only on condi- 
tion that the entire cost of the completion of the said building shall fall within the 
amount above specified in this act. 
Referred to Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. 
December 10, 1888—House. 
Mr. W. H. Sowpen introduced a bill (H. 11689): 
That a fireproof building for the use and accommodation of the United States 
Geological Survey shall be erected on the Government reservation between the 
National Museum and the Army Medical Museum, in the city of Washington, D. C.; 
and the said building shall be constructed on the plan submitted by the Director of 
