13967 ~ CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
Mr. Butrerwortu. Does my friend think that the Yellowstone 
National Park is essential to carry on the Government, or that the 
National Museum in this city is so . 
Mr. Dockery. No, sir; Ido not. I think the gentleman misappre-— 
hended my statement. I understood him, in reply to a question of 
the gentleman. from Massachusetts [Mr. Cogswell], to put a Govern- 
ment building ‘‘on all fours” as to its purposes and necessities with 
the proposed park. | 
Mr. Butrerwortn. Or any of the educational institutions of the — 
country more than this scientific institution ? 
Mr. Dockxsery. Mr. Speaker, it seems to me that the analogy sug- 
gested by the gentleman from Ohio wholly fails. I know of no fune- 
tions connected with a monkey, tiger, or lion which are in any wise 
essential to the public defense or necessary to discharge the functions 
of Government, whilst a Government building does facilitate the trans- 
action of public business in the matter of collecting revenues, the 
dispatch of the mails, and in various other ways. 
Mr. BurrerwortH. Is my friend opposed to the zoological park? 
Mr. Dockery. Iam. I stated a moment ago that I favored this 
appropriation, not because I was an advocate of the park, but Con- 
gress having already, after full discussion, inaugurated the enterprise, 
I thought it my duty, as a member of the Committee on Appropria- 
tions, to obey the mandate of the law authorizing it, which law also 
provides that the District of Columbia shall pay one-half of the expense. 
Mr. McComas. The law does not do it. 
Mr. BreckrinrinGr, of Kentucky. Will the gentleman allow me to 
ask him a question # 
Mr. Dockery. Certainly. 
Mr. BrecxinrinGr, of Kentucky. If the partnership between the 
General Government and the District of Columbia is dissolved and 
this District is given a government of its own, with a council and cor- 
poration, then how will my friend agree to the division of the zoologi- 
cal park and the various rights in equity which will grow up under this 
system 4 | 
Mr. Dockery. ‘‘Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” Now, 
Mr. Speaker, one word as to the question of a local government, sug- 
gested by my friend from Kentucky. I do not wish to say anything 
that will offend gentlemen on the other side of this Chamber, but the 
gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Candler] announced the proposi- 
tion that taxation and representation should go hand in hand. ‘That 
proposition is fundamental and has my hearty approval. The gentle- 
man from Ohio [Mr. Butterworth] had something to say in the same 
direction. He insisted that there should be some modification of the 
existing District government. 
In reply to this suggestion, Mr. Speaker, I desire to state in behalf 
of the Democratic party that it is no fault of ours that the District of 
