1408 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
with the understanding that if the House insists and does not ask for 
a conference, without the further instruction of the House that ends it. 
The previous question was ordered. 
- The question was taken on the motion that the House insist upon its 
amendment, and the Speaker declared that the ayes seemed to have it. 
Mr. Bayne. I ask for a division. > 
The House divided; and there were-—ayes 118, noes 27. 
So the motion to insist was agreed to. 
April 22, 1890—Senate. 
Mr. J. S. Morritu. I ask permission to make a report from a com- 
mittee of conference. 
The Vicr-Presipent (Mr. Levi P. Mokrton). The report will be 
received and read. 
The Curer CLERK read the report. 
(See April 12, 1890—House.) 
Mr. Morriu. The difference between the two Houses is in relation 
to the expenditure on the part of the District. The House made an 
amendment to our bill putting one-half of the expenditure on the Dis- 
trict of Columbia. I have ascertained that the vote in the House in 
the first instance was only 18 for the Senate provision, and they have 
taken the question again and there were only 28, and therefore I ask 
that we recede from our disagreement and concur with the House 
amendment. - It is the only method in which we can get the bill 
passed. 
Mr. Joun J. Incatus. Mr. President, I think that should not be 
done without further deliberation by the Senate. While it is notin | 
order to refer to the votes in either House as a means of affecting the 
judgment of the other, it is undoubtedly true that the sentiment of the 
Senate was practically unanimous, and it seems to me that it is an 
obvious and a flagrant and glaring injustice to compel the people of 
this District to bear one-half of the expenses involved in this under- 
taking. They might just as well be called upon to’bear one-half the 
expense of the National Museum, of the Smithsonian Institution, or 
any other of our national exhibitions and museums here; and therefore, 
before the subject is passed upon, I hope there may be some further 
expression on the part of the Senate. 
Mr. Morritu. I hope not, Mr. President. I am quite satisfied that 
with the temper of the House it is utterly impossible to get the bill 
through there in any other shape. — If the land itself had been origi- 
nally bought and paid for by the United States instead of one-half of it 
by the District, then perhaps without that precedent we might have. 
carried the latter proposition for the expense of conducting it, being 
entirely assumed by the United States; but it is already late. It is 
important that the park should be fitted for the introduction of the 
animals. Buildings, and houses, and fences, and roads are to be made. 
