1406 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
" The Speaker. The gentléman will suspend for‘a moment. Unless 
demonstration ceases in the gallery, the Chair will order the gallery 
- cleared. 
Mr. McCreary. I want to say, Mr. Speaker, that I for one am tired 
of the propositions that come in here seeking in a covert way to get 
the United States committed to build these parks and gardens. If fair 
propositions are brought here I am ready to support them. If they 
come in here and ask us to furnish half the money and we agree to do 
so, and they to furnish the other half, then we should stand up to the 
proposition we have made and adhere to it. Jam not in favor of lay- 
ing out beautiful parks to increase the value of the property of those _ 
men who happen to have property in the suburbs of this beautiful 
city. 
[Here the hammer fell. ] 
The Speaker. The time of the gentleman from Kentucky has 
expired. 
Mr. Cannon. I now yield five minutes to the gentleman from Massa- 
chusetts [Mr. Candler], and then I will move the previous question. 
Mr..Canpuer, of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, when the chairman 
of the committee made his motion here he quoted the number of mem- 
bers that were in favor of his proposition in the last discussion and the 
small minority against it. Sometimes truth is found where ‘‘two or 
three are gathered together.” I believe that the Senate is right in the 
legislation which they propose. There is some contention as to how 
this came here. 1 take the legislation as it stands to-day. Some gen- 
tlemen have suggested that they do not believe in zoological gardens 
and other scientific developments of that kind. Ido. I believe in the 
Smithsonian Institution and the Museum and everything of that kind 
in connection with the United States Government. They educate the 
people, and they have been a blessing to the people; and more than 
that, these institutions have been so conducted that they are a credit 
to the United States. And for one, if we are to continue these insti- 
tutions and extend and enlarge the National Museum, I believe in con- 
tinuing the management under the Smithsonian Institution, and not 
change it so as to put it partially under the charge of the District of 
Columbia, or to tax the people of this District to pay for it. 
I am in favor of every measure that in an economical and proper 
way tends to elevate, educate, and instruct the American people; and 
this city of Washington is a city that must continually receive aid 
from the Government and be benefited from what the Government 
has inaugurated here. 
Mr. Speaker, I am opposed to the principle involved in this legisla- 
tion. Ido not believe in the Government having a copartnership in 
these museums for art and science in this District of Columbia I do 
not believe in burdening this city with a continuing appropriation 
