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Mr. Buounr. If it does not pass at all, Ido not think that there will 
be any serious trouble. I hope the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. 
Holman] will insist on the point of order. 
Mr. Benron McMrturn. There is one objection to which the gentle- 
man. from Illinois [Mr. Cannon] has not addressed himself; that is, 
that this is an appropriation bill originating in the Senate. I remem- 
ber the time when the gentleman from Illinois fought strenuously and 
properly against the origination of appropriation bills in the Senate. 
Mr. Cannon. I understand that where there is an origination of a 
great appropriation bill in the Senate that point may well be made. 
Not that there is any express inhibition in the Constitution to the 
origination of appropriation bills in the Senate, but as a matter of 
practice such bills have nearly always originated in the House. 
Mr. McMuun. It is a fact, if I remember correctly, that a docu- 
ment now becoming extinct, a document known as the Constitution of 
the United States, has been construed to mean that appropriation bills 
should originate in the House. 
Mr. Cannon. Oh! The Constitution is silent on that matter. I 
hope, however, that this bill will not get wound up in the Constitu- 
tion, because it is a matter that ought to receive prompt attention. 
Mr. McMinn. Well, it is very certain to get wound up in Com- 
mittee of the Whole, if nowhere else. 
Mr. Cannon. Very well. If the gentleman makes that point of 
order, I think it is good. 
Mr. McMnmu1n. Well, I make it. ' 
The Speaker. The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Holman] has 
already made it, and the Chair sustains the point of order. 
* April 1, 1890—House. 
Mr. J. G. Cannon. I desire now to call up the bill (S. 2284). 
The Clerk having completed the first reading of the bill— 
Mr. Cannon. I now ask that the bill be read by paragraphs or sec- 
tions for amendment and debate under the five-minute rule. 
The Cuatrman. No general debate being desired, the bill will now 
be read by paragraphs for amendment. 
The Clerk read: 
Be it enacted, etc., That there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money 
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the organization, improvement, and 
maintenance of the National Zoological Park, to be expended under the direction of 
the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, the following sums of money: 
The amendments reported by Committee on Appropriations to the 
pending paragraph were then read: 
Strike out ‘‘there be, and hereby is, appropriated out of any money in the Treas- 
ury not otherwise appropriated”’ and insert ‘‘the one-half of the following sums 
named, respectively, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not 
otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of the District of 
Columbia.”’ 
