1392 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
involved and not to deal with technicalities, except to leave them. 
This bill, upon its face and in terms, provides for a national park, and 
it puts that park entirely under the management of the Smithsonian 
_ Institution; so the only feature in which there is to be a participation 
by the District is in contributing a part of the money to maintain it. 
Now, Congress has supreme power in this District of legislation and 
taxation, and if, under the present system, a certain amount of money, 
which is just and equitable, is taken from the people of this District 
by way of taxation, it is totally immaterial whether this park is paid 
for out of a fund gathered partly from the District or totally from 
the revenues of the Government of the United States, so that in 
making this provision we do no injustice to the tax-payers of the 
District of Columbia. The gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. 
Buchanan] alluded to the $1,000,000 paid by the District for the 
tunnel. I would call his attention to the fact that the records of the 
War Department show that to inaugurate the Aqueduct, the water 
system which brings water into this city, the Government of the 
United States, before the war and during the war and up to 1866, 
expended $3,250,000 of which the District did not contribute one 
cent. Since that time more than $500,000 have been applied by the 
Government to the enlargement of the Aqueduct and the water supply 
of this District, of which the District government has not contributed 
one cent. I would remind the gentleman that when the District sunk 
$1,000,000 in the tunnel the United States also sunk $1,000,000. 
Mr. Bucwanan, of New Jersey. Will the gentleman permit a ques- 
tion ? 
Mr. Ciements. I have not the time. If I had I would be glad to 
hear the gentleman’s question. 
Mr. Bucuanan, of New Jersey. The people pay a water tax. 
Mr. CuLeMENtTs. The water takers do pay their water tax for the 
current maintenance of the system, but they did not pay one cent for 
the establishment of the system, except in the bill of last year to 
increase the water supply. Of that expenditure they paid one-half, 
the whole of it being about $575,000. Further than that, the supreme 
court of the District of Columbia sits here and adjudicates cases nine- 
tenths of which arise between citizens of this District, and the Goy- 
ernment of the United States pays every dollar of its expenses, the 
salaries of the judges, the salaries of the marshals, even the fees of 
the witnesses and jurors. Every dollar of those expenses is paid out 
of the Federal Treasury. And yet, as I have said, it is a court almost 
wholly for the people of this District. 
Not only that, but there was expended last year for the Freedman’s 
Hospital, which is substantially a municipal affair, $54,000; $12,500 
for the Garfield Hospital; for the maintenance of Providence Hos- 
