1368 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
McComas] moves that the House recede from its amendment. I think 
that if it is the sense of the House to recede from its amendments it 
had better be considered and that action had. On the.contrary, I think 
that if it is the sense of the House to insist upon the House amend- 
ment, we had better make it emphatic, so that the conferees on the 
part of the House can have the action of the House on this matter to 
report to the Senate conferees. 
The bill is an act for the organization, improvement, and mainte- 
nance of a national zoological park. The House amendment provides 
that one half of the sum, amounting to nearly $100,000, appropriated 
for the commencement of the improvement of this park shall be paid 
from the revenues of the District of Columbia, and that the other half 
shall be paid from the Treasury of the United States. I believe that 
the House should not adopt the motion of the gentleman from Mary- 
land [Mr. McComas] to concur with the Senate, and for these reasons: 
In the sundry civil bill for the fiscal year 1889 a provision was placed 
by the Senate appropriating $200,000 for the purchase of a site for 
this park. The House fought the provision. The money was payable, 
or was to be payable if the provision had been enacted, from the 
Treasury of the United States, and at that time the Senate receded 
and the provision was lost. 
At the last session of the Fiftieth Congress, a year ago and a little 
over, the Senate, no doubt having in view the fate of the proposition 
to buy this park at the sole expense of the United States, placed a pro- 
vision by way of an amendment upon the District of Columbia appro- 
priation bill, appropriating $200,000 to buy the site for this zoological 
park, one half payable from the revenues of the District of Columbia 
and the other half from the United States Treasury. After full dis- 
cussion in the House that appropriation was made, and the site for 
this park was bought and has been paid for jointly by the District of 
Columbia and the Government of the United States, and this proposi- 
tion is for an appropriation to improve the park. The Senate sent us 
this bill in the first instance providing for the improvement and we 
concurred, believing that the improvement of the park was wise. We 
concurred in the Senate provisions placing the expenditure of the 
money under the Smithsonian Institution rather than under the Dis- 
trict Commissioners, but we amended the Senate bill so as to pro- 
vide that this park, which is owned jointly by the United States and 
the District of Columbia, should be improved and maintained from the 
revenues of each, half and half. | 
The Senate, after full discussion, refused to concur in the House 
amendment, and now the matter comes up on the motion which I have 
maae, that the House insist upon its amendment, which is supplemented 
by the motion which the gentleman from Maryland [Mr. McComas] 
makes, that the House concur with the Senate. If it is the sense of 
