1324 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic and tele- 
phonic service for the National Museum, including salaries or compen- 
sation of ali necessary employees, $15,000. 
Nore.—For the safety of the collections and the proper administration of the 
Museum, it is found necessary to keep the buildings heated for a greater number of 
hours daily than has heretofore been the custom. This requires a greater expenditure 
for fuel and for services. The gradual improvement in the electrical plant is also to 
be taken into consideration. An appropriation of $15,000 is therefore necessary. 
For removing old boilers under Museum hall in Smithsonian build- 
ing, replacing them with new ones, and for necessary alterations and 
connections of steam-heating apparatus, and for covering pipes with 
fireproof material, $3,000. 
Nore.—These boilers have been in use for about fifteen years, and the tubes are 
consequently so warped and burnt that in order to heat the building without danger 
it has been necessary for the past year to keep the fires burning night and day, and 
to limit the steam pressure to 6 pounds. 
For removing the decayed wooden floors in the Museum building, 
substituting granolithic or artificial stone therefor, and for slate for 
covering trenches containing heating and electric apparatus, including 
all necessary material and labor, to be immediately available, $5,000. 
Norr.—The floors ofthe Museum were laid in 1881, and were hurried to completion 
in order that the building might be ready for occupancy at the time of the inaugura- 
tion of President Garfield. This necessitated the laying of the boards in the damp 
concrete. The floors and timbers are now rotten, and constant patching is necessary. 
The main expense will be in paving the four center courts, which contain an area 
of about 17,000 square feet. 
Slight repairs to floors are also required in other parts of the building. 
For postage stamps and foreign postal cards and postage for the 
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum, and international ex- 
changes, $1,000. 
In regard to the estimates for 1892, the Secretary, Mr. S. P. Langley, 
said in a letter dated October 20, 1890: 
The needs of the Museum have been explained at length in letters presented at the 
last session, reference to which is made in the notes under the estimates. 
January 12, 1891—House. _ 
Deficiency estimates for 1891. 
For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing for the use of the 
National Museum, not exceeding $1,000. 
To meet customs duties on glass, tin, and other dutiable articles 
and supplies imported for the United States National Museum, $1,000. 
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury 
on account of the preservation of collections, National Museum, being 
for the service of the fiscal year 1890, as follows: Chicago and North- 
western Railroad Company, $34.89; Central Pacific Railroad Company, 
$33.99; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, $0.67; total, $69.55. 
