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the people of the District, and which adds to the value of the property 
of the District. 
Mr. J. R. Hawtny. Mr. President, as it seems to be considered in 
order to discuss the general merits of this proposition, I have a few 
words to say. 
I concur with the Senator from Kansas in holding that it may pos- 
sibly be quite equitable that some moderate practical expense of this 
park should be laid upon the adjoining proprietor, who will be greatly 
benefited by it, as a fair pecuniary transaction. As far as the body of 
the District is concerned, I do not think it right to charge them one 
dollar of it. In the first place, no city of 200,000 population in the 
United States would dream of establishing such a park—so expensive 
a thing as a zoological collection. It is not done by Congress for the 
benefit of these people. It is done for general scientific purposes, to 
adorn the national capital, and as an object lesson, a place of instruc- 
tion for the whole people of the United States. I do not think that it 
would be equitable to put a dollar of that expense upon the people of 
the District, though there should be some moderate assessment upon 
those adjoining pieces of property which are unquestionably to be 
greatly benefited by it. 
Mr. H. W. Buarr. In connection with this important discussion upon 
the expenditure proposed in favor of our wild beasts and reptiles and 
bad birds and all manner of creeping things, I desire to read a memo- 
rial which I have just received which bears upon the interests of the 
children of this country: 
Wasuineton, D.C., March 23, 1890. 
At the close of the evening service of the Metropolitan W. Z. Church, D street 
southwest, between Second and Third, Rev. R. H. G. Dyson, pastor, the following 
was submitted and unanimously adopted by a standing vote of the entire assembly: 
‘‘Whereas we, the communicants and congregational members of the Metropolitan 
W. Z. Church, believe that the failure to pass the Blair educational bill in the Senate 
of the United States on last Thursday, March 21, 1890, is a great public calamity, 
especially to the poorer classes of white and a very large majority of colored youths 
in the Southern States, and we further believe that the great race problem can be 
solved only by the educating and improving the condition of all classes of citizens of 
the United States: Therefore, 
‘* Be it resolved, That we respectfully petition the Congress of the United States to 
reopen the case and present a new or modified bill that will give our people all the 
benefits that the defeated bill would have secured, and that we as a unit ask the 
Senate and House of Representatives to pass the same.’’ 
R. H. G. Dyson, Pastor. 
J. D. Baurimore, Financial Secretary. 
Mr. R. L. Greson. Mr. President, this Zoological Park established by 
Congress was not established for the benefit of the people of this Dis- 
trict, but for the benefit of the scientific men of this country who would 
desire to preserve the types of the different wild animals that inhabited 
this continent. So far from being beneficial to the property holders 
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