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the benefit of the people of the locality where Columbus Park is to be 
inaugurated or established. Do gentlemen propose to place upon it 
exhibits belonging to the United States Government? The title, even, 
will not rest in the United States, but’in the District of Columbia. 
Here in this case the title to this property is in the United States; it 
will remain in the people of the United States. The property that is 
to be placed there, such as plants and animals, is the property of the 
United States; and I close as I began, with the remark that I can see 
no reason why the people of the United States should not bear the 
expenses of maintaining this Zoological Park. 
Mr. McComas. I now yield three minutes to the gentleman from 
New Jersey [Mr. Buchanan]. 
Mr. Bucuanan, of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from 
Kentucky [Mr. Bree ide has very well described the difference 
between the Zoological Park and that other park which was proposed 
here the other day, and I need add no word upon that point. He 
well said that the one is for beauty and for adornment, a place, if you 
please— 
Where love may wander amid the leafy bowers 
And beauty hold the reins along the circling drives. 
I only hope that when love does thus wander, and beauty does thus 
hold the reins, my dear colleagues, you may re there to see—yea, to 
participate. 
Mr. BurrerworrtH. But not in crowds, though. 
Mr. Bucuanan, of New Jersey. The Zoological Park is for an alto- 
gether different purpose. It is for a scientific purpose, and it is only 
because it is for that purpose that the Congress of the United States 
has, in my judgment, any authority to appropriate one dollar for its 
organization and its maintenance. It is a legitimate outgrowth of the 
scientific work of the Smithsonian Institution, and the purpose of its 
establishment in the Government was purely scientific. Because it is 
for that purpose there should be no call upon the people of any par- 
ticular locality to help the Government to contribute toward its sup- 
port. You might justas well say that the people of the District when 
they wander down the aisles of the National Museum and see there 
those magnificent groups which Professor Hornaday has mounted, 
and mounted with all the excellence of the taxidermist’s art until they 
almost rival nature herself, should pay one-half of the expense. You 
might as well say that because they wander at times through the 
grounds of the Smithsonian Institute and of the Agricultural Depart- 
ment and see and study there and in the Botanical Gardens the differ- 
ent kinds of rare plants grouped at so much expense they must con- 
tribute one-half of the expense of operating those institutions. The 
very statement of the proposition shows that it is unsound. 
