1328 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
ment, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all 
necessary employees, $145,000. 
For cases; furniture, fixtures, and appliances ronan for the exhi- 
bition and safe- ae of the collections of the National Museum, 
including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, $25,000. 
For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic and tele- 
phonic service for the National Museum, $12,000. 
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. 
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 availa- 
ble, $5,000. 
For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National 
Museum, $500. 
(Stat., XX VI, 963.) 
For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks and 
for the ‘‘ Bulletins” and annual volumes of the ‘‘ Proceedings” of the 
National Museum, $15,000. 
(Stat., XX VI, 988.) 
REPORT ON EXPENDITURES. 
December 21, 1889—House. 
The Spraker (Mr. Tuomas B. Rep) laid before the House a letter 
from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, submitting a state- 
ment of expenditures for International ery National Museum, 
and North American Ethnology for the fiscal year 1889. (H.. Mise. 
Doc. No. 48.) , 
- Referred to Committee on Appropriations. 
December 12, 1890—House. 
A communication from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion, transmitting a statement of the expenditures for the fiscal year 
1890, under the appropriation for International Exchanges, National 
Museum, North-American Ethnology, and National Zoological Park. 
(H. Mise. Doe. No. 39.) 
Referred to Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Depar tment: 
¥ 
REID’S SWORD. 
January 9, 1890—Senate. . 
Mr. D. W. Vooruess introduced resolution (S. 39) to accept dona- 
tion of battle sword of the late Capt. Samuel Chester Reid from his 
son Samuel C. Reid, and providing for the presentation to him by 
Congress of a gold medal. 
Referred to Committee on Library. 
