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to be a payment of the expenses of the whole from the National Treas- 
ury.: It is scarcely fair or just to impose on the people of this Dis- 
trict, who do not want this institution, who hope you will not have 
it 
Mr. Payson. Why does the gentleman say that? 
Mr. McComas. Has the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Paseea heard 
of a single request or petition from anybody in the District of Colum- 
bia in behalf of this business? I have not. 
Mr. Payson, Yes; there have been scores of such requests. They 
came in here on the District bill, and this proposition now to saddle 
the entire cost of this park on the General Government is a fraud on 
the House, and every old member of the House knows it. 
Mr. A. C. THomeson. This institution ought not to be forced on the 
people of the District if they do not want it. ; 
Mr. McComas. And if they do not want it you ought to abolish this 
park—— 
Mr. Payson. I think so, too. 
Mr. McComas. But if you are going to have the park, then the 
Government, which proposes to force this whole thing on these peeple, 
and to move its buffaloes and camels to the park, ought to pay the 
expense. 
Mr. Cannon. I believe I have the floor. 
The SPEAKER. The House will be in order. 
Mr. McCreary. I would like to ask the gentleman from Maryland 
a question. 
Mr. Cannon. I believe I have the floor. Will the gentleman from ° 
Maryland have the kindness to indicate how much time he would like? 
Mr. McComas. I will yield until the gentleman from Illinois has 
finished. 
Mr. Cannon. I hope to be able to hold the floor, yielding a short 
time to the gentleman from Maryland, and- perhaps other gentlemen, 
and then to move the previous question. 
Several Members. All right. 
Mr. Cannon. I would be glad to yield a short time to the gentleman 
from Maryland if he will indicate how much. 
Mr. J. W. Canpuer, of Massachusetts. I hope the gentleman from 
Illinois will not call the previous question without giving some of us an 
opportunity to be heard. 
Mr. Cannon. Gentlemen were heard the other day. 
Mr. McComas. What is the gentleman’s motion ? 
Mr. Cannon. Before I yield to the gentleman, it is perhaps fair I 
should state that the other day, when this matter was fully discussed 
in the House, the vote stood 18 in favor of the House receding, and 
nearly 100 in favor of the House insisting. 
Mr. Ciemments. Over a hundred. 
