1352 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
that there has. been procured by purchase a little more than 131 acres 
of land, and that by proceedings in condemnation about 33 acres addi- 
tional will be acquired, making in all about 166% acres, including a 
small area already owned by the Government, for the uses of the park. 
The price agreed upon for the property acquired by purchase is 
stated to be $158,356.76. The valuation offered by the commission 
and approved by the President for the land to be acquired by con- 
demnation is stated at $18,772, making the total probable cost of the 
whole $177,128.76. 
The total amount appropriated by the bill is $92,000, based upon 
the following itemized estimates prepared by the Secretary of the 
Smithsonian Institution.’ 
Mr. Horman. Mr. Speaker, I suppose that the reading of these 
amendments may possibly be regarded as entering upon the con- 
sideration of the bill, and I think it is a bill that ought to be consid- 
ered in Committee of the Whole. . 
Mr. Cannon. I think it can be disposed of very promptly. 
Mr. J. C. Buount. Mr. Speaker, it seems to me that this matter 
rather belongs to the sundry civil appropriation bill, and these little 
detached appropriation bills originating in the Senate are entirely con- 
trary to the rules of the House. | 
Mr. Cannon. I am not aware of any rule of the House which pro- 
hibits the Committee on Appropriations from reporting a bill or 
bills to provide for the sundry civil expenses of the Government. 
Mr. Buount. I understand that the sundry civil appropriation bill 
is one bill. This is a detached portion of it, in advance of the 
regular bill. This item is brought in here by itself, and if this practice 
is to be continued the appropriations will be scattered in every direc- 
tion, and we shall have no sundry civil bill at all, or shall not know 
what the bill is. 
Mr. Cannon. In reply to the gentleman from Georgia, I wish to 
say that the committee have the same authority, under the rule, to 
report a bill providing for the sundry civil expenses of the Govern- 
ment, in whole or in part, that we have to report an urgent deficiency 
bill, and several of those bills have been already reported. The rule 
does not speak of a sundry civil bill, and does not know of such a bill, 
but matters covering the sundry civil expenses of the Government 
are referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and are privileged. 
1 think this can be disposed of to the gentleman’s satisfaction, upon 
the merits, in a very few minutes, because this appropriation ought 
to be made, if at all, early in the season, so that it can be utilized at 
the beginning of spring, so as to care for the animals already in 
possession. 
1See February 10, 1890—Senate. 
