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Mr. CogswE.u. Yes; considerably more. 
Mr. Cannon. We met in conference with the Senate conferees, and 
an intimation, if it is proper for me to so state, was made there that 
perhaps the House would have to recede from its position or the park 
would be lost. I will make a reply here to any such suggestion—will 
not say whether it was made elsewhere or not—that this amendment 
originated in the Senate in the last Congress, and was put on the Dis- 
trict bill in the Senate and passed. It came to the House and the 
House reluctantly assented to the proposition, making it payable half 
and half, and the $200,000 were so appropriated. 
Now, in the Senate arises a new proposition to improve this ie 
park at the sole expense of the United States. And I say here and 
now, Mr. Speaker, that if it is the sense of the Senate to insist upon 
that amendment, so far as I am concerned the Zoological Garden may 
go into a state of ‘‘innocuous desuetude.” 
Mr. J. A. ANDERSON, of Kansas. Let it go. 
Mr. Cannon. Now, if nobody desires to be heard further, I move 
the previous question. 
Mr. McComas. I hope the gentleman will yield to me for a few 
moments; but before that, I wish to submit a parliamentary inquiry 
to the Chair. 
The Speaker. The gentleman will state it. . 
Mr. McComas. If the motion is made to recede, does that not take 
precedence of the motion to insist? 
The SPEAKER. It does. 
Mr. McComas. And does not that give the mover the floor? 
The Speaker. The Chair thinks not. 
Mr. McComas. There is, then, simply a right to make the motion, 
without any accompanying privilege? 
The Speaker. The Chair thinks the gentleman in charge of the bill 
is entitled to the control of it until some action of the House, shows 
that in its judgment the opposition should assume control. 
Mr. Cannon. I will yield to the gentleman from Maryland five min- 
utes, if he desires it, after which I hope to move the previous question. 
Mr. McComas. There are other gentlemen, I believe, who wish to 
be heard. 
Mr. Canpuier, of Massachusetts. I wish to have a few moments. 
Mr. McComas. Mr. Speaker, my proposition is this: That either we 
ought to have no park at all by the action of Congress, or if Congress 
undertakes to make a park of living animals, as an adjunct to the 
museum of extinct species of animals, both under the same control— 
the Smithsonian—that the nation, which organizes both, ought to sup- 
port both. Both ought to be made local or made enema: As the 
museum of extinct species is national, the living species of animals 
preserved in the park, which is alle to the same scientific object, 
