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pital, $17,000, and for the improvement and care of public grounds, 
$116,000. The parks throughout this city 
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired. 
Mr. Cannon. [ will yield the gentleman some additional time. 
Mr. Ciements. I thank my friend from Illinois. The expenses of 
the supreme court of the District of Columbia for the last fiscal year, 
so far as paid, including marshals’, clerks’, prosecuting attorneys’, 
jurors’ fees and witnesses’ fees, amount to $116,776. Of this expendi- 
ture the District contributes no part. It contributes no part of the 
large amount that is appropriated annually for the maintenance of the 
parks within this city, their lighting, their pavements, their walks, 
the watchmen that guard and protect them, mainly for the benefit of 
the people of the District. The whole of that expenditure falls upon 
the Federal Government. The jail in which prisoners convicted of 
crimes committed in this District are imprisoned is maintained at the 
expense of the Federal Government, no part of its maintenance. being 
contributed by the District except in relation to the police court. 
Now, I do not wish to be unfair with the people of this District, and 
this Government is not so. I would remind my friend from Ohio 
[Mr. Butterworth] and other gentlemen of a little history in connec- 
tion with this zoological park. At the first session of the last Con- 
gress it came here from the Senate on the sundry civil bill, as a matter 
the expense of which was to be paid by the Federal Government. 
This House upon consideration deliberately rejected the propepition 
in that form. 
The proposition having been defeated at that time, Congress not 
being willing to establish this as a national park and pay the whole 
expense out of the general revenues, the friends of the measure brought 
it here at the second session of that Congress as an amendment to the 
District appropriation bill, and then we heard our friends here talking 
about the importance of a ‘‘ breathing place” out there, a spot where 
’ the crowded multitudes of the city of Washington might go and enjoy 
pure, fresh air. 
Mr. Burrerwortn. Which park ii is the gentleman speaking of—the 
Rock Creek park ? 
Mr. CLEMENTS. Both have been urged upon the same grounds in 
this respect. 
Mr. Burrerwortu. Oh, no! 
Mr. Ciements. We have heard the same talk in regard to both 
enterprises. We had the same sort of arguments in favor of this bill 
as in support of the other. To-day the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. | 
Payson] asked the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Atkinson] 
whether he would be willing to take the same position on the Rock 
Creek park that he occupies on this question. I want to say to the 
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