1410 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
expenditures to be made this year in preparing the park for the pur- 
pose for which it is designed. 
Mr. Incatrs. The bill is not long. JI should like to hear it read, 
Mr. President. 
The Vick-PresipENtT. The bill will be read. 
The Cuter Cierk read bill (S. 2284) as it passed the Senate. 
That there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not 
otherwise appropriated, for the organization, improvement, and maintenance of the 
National Zoological Park, to be expended under the direction of the Regents of the 
Smithsonian Institution, the following sums of money: 
For the shelter of animals, $15,000. 
For shelter-barns, cages, fences, and inclosures, and other provisions for the custody 
cf animals, $9,000. 
For repairs to the Holt mansion, to make the same suitable for occupancy, and for 
office furniture, $2,000. 
For the creation of artificial ponds and other provisions for aquatic animals, $2,000. 
For water supply, sewerage, and drainage, $7,000. 
For roads, walks, and bridges, $15,000. 
For miscellaneous supplies, materials, and sundry incidental expenses not other- 
wise provided for, $5,000. 
For current expenses, including the maintenance of collections, food supplies, sal- 
aries of all necessary employees, and the acquisition and transportation of specimens, 
$37,000. 
Src. 2. That the National Zoological Park is hereby placed under the direction of 
the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, who are authorized to transfer to it any 
living specimens, whether of animals or plants, now or hereafter in their charge, to 
accept gifts for the park at their discretion, in the name of the United States, to make 
exchanges of specimens, and to administer the said Zoological Park for the advance- 
ment of science and the instruction and recreation of the people. 
Src. 3. That the heads of Executive Departments of the Government are hereby 
authorized and directed to cause to be rendered all necessary and practicable aid to 
the said Regents in the acquisition of collections for the Zoological Park. 
Amendments of the House: 
Page 1, in lines 3 and 4 of the bill, strike out the words ‘‘ there be, and hereby is, 
appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,’”’ and 
insert ‘‘the one-half of the following sums named, respectively, is hereby appropri- 
ated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other 
half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.’’ 
Page 1, line 7, strike out all after the word ‘‘Institution,’’ and in lieu thereof 
insert ‘‘and to be drawn on their requisition and disbursed by the disbursing officer 
for said Institution.”’ 
Mr. Ineatus. Mr. President, the government of this District is an 
absolute despotism, but I do not think that I ever knew of an illustra- 
tion of more perfect tyranny than is evinced by that provision in this 
bill. The people of the District of Columbia have absolutely nothing 
whatever to do with that park or with its maintenance or its manage- 
ment. It is to be under the control of the Regents of the Smithsonian 
Institution. The people of the District have no representation on the 
board, no connection with its management, no disposition whatever of 
the finances which are to be appropriated and disbursed. 
