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would be better for the Fifty-first Congress to close up and dissolve 
the copartnership. . 
It is not a fair proposition that representation and taxation shall 
not go together. If the Government of the United States and the 
people of the United States propose to tax the District of Columbia 
on this measure, then they should give representation to it. 
Mr. Speaker, I go further than that 
Mr. Buiount. As to giving them representation, does not the gen- 
tleman know that representation has been taken from the District of 
Columbia at its own request? Is not that the present status? 
Mr. Canpuer, of Massachusetts. But that does not change my 
proposition—that if you tax the people here, justly you should give 
them representation. 
Mr. Biount. The people here are not suffering any grievance as to 
the matter of representation. 
Mr. Canpuer, of Massachusetts. We are discussing a general prin- 
ciple, and so far as the Government is concerned I do not believe in 
the wisdom of the United States Government entering into a copart- 
nership with the District of Columbia in any of her public buildings 
or museums. As a business proposition it is not wise. It is not wise 
or fair to the District for the 60,000,000 of people to enter into an 
expenditure with this District of 200,000 population. Perhaps in the 
future, if you desire to develop this institution as this wealthy nation 
may desire, if it is to be useful and creditable to the country, the 
Government may find it necessary to incur a larger expenditure than 
the District of Columbia could afford with its limited population. 
Let us meet the question here, and if we think the Government should 
continue this enterprise, if it can afford to tax the people in behalf of 
this enterprise to-day, let us meet it here and let us not organize a 
measure to establish and add to a great public museum and tax one- 
half the expense on the 200,000 people in the District of Columbia, 
who have no direct control to limit the expenditure. 
I go further than that. It is not a fair illustration to compare 
the city of Chicago or the city of New York with the District of 
Columbia. They have great wealth, millions of people, whereas we 
are entering into nothing else than a kind of copartnership with 200,000 
people here; burdening a small District with a heavy and yearly tax, 
continuous but uncertain as to the amount. 
Mr. BreckinripGk, of Kentucky. Many only temporarily here. 
Mr. Canpier, of Massachusetts. And we should be extremely 
cautious when we organize any enterprise which may put a heavy bur- 
den of taxation upon the population in the District of Columbia. 
Many of them are men whose salaries are not sufficiently remunerative 
to enable them to enter into any uncertain expenditure. 
Something has been said, Mr. Speaker, about the low rate of taxa- 
