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make exchanges of specimens, and to administer the said Zoological Park for the 
advancement of science and the instruction and recreation of the people. 
Sec. 3. That the heads of Executive Departments of the Government are hereby 
authorized and directed to cause to be rendered all necessary and practicable aid to 
the said Regents in the acquisition of collections for the Zoological Park. 
Referred to Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. 
January 27, 1890—Senate. 
Mr. J. S. Morrix, from the Committee on Public Buildings and 
Grounds, to whom was referred the bill (S. 2284), reported it without 
amendment. ; 
February 10, 1890—Senate. — 
Mr. J. S. Morritx. I now ask for the consideration of Order of 
Business 253, Senate bill 2284. 
There béing no objection, the bill (S. 2284) for the organization, 
improvement, and maintenance of the National Zoological Park was 
considered as in Committee of the Whole. 
The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, and ordered 
_ to be engrossed for a third reading. 
Mr. Morriww. Instead of making a speech, I have taken pains to 
collect a good many facts in relation to this matter, which I ask to 
have printed in the Record instead of making any remarks upon the 
subject. 
The Vicr-PrestpEent (Mr. L. P. Morton). The paper submitted will 
be printed in the Record if there be no objection. 
The Chair hears none. 
The paper presented by Mr. Morrill was as follows: 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 
Washington, D. C., February 6, 1890. 
Dear Sir: I beg, in handing you the accompanying specifications in detail of the 
estimates for the expenses of the National*Zoological Park for 1890-91, to say that, 
while only the numbered items are intended to form heads of appropriations, it 
would be advantageous if these were rather lumped together than subdivided into 
even as many items as there now are; and I trust, if there be any amendment, that 
it will be in the directfon rather of uniting than subdividing them. In particular, I 
hope that the amount for current expenses, now set at $37,000, will be given in a lump 
sum. R 
I think that a simple inspection will show that all these items are not estimates 
made large with the expectation of their being cut down, but an economical and, I 
trust, evidently carefully considered statement of what seems necessary for a begin- 
ning. The only item which may seem to need explanation is that of the salaries 
of the twenty-four employees for the first year, when, as everything is in a state of 
preparation merely, it might be supposed that fewer would be needed; but it will. be 
remembered that the park is not like a building, from which the public can be 
excluded during the process of construction, and that the public will doubtless 
insist upon making itself present everywhere from the first, so that I am rather 
apprehensive that more. watchmen and laborers, rather than less, will be needed, 
with perhaps the possible occasion for the cost of consultation with a landscape 
