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Mr. Morritu. I ask for the yeas and nays. 
Mr. Cocxretu. Let us have the yeas and nays. 
Mr. Morr. It is entirely useless to have another conference. 
The yeas and nays were ordered. 
Mr. C. J. FaAuLKNER. I understand the question is on the motion 
of the Senator from Vermont to recede from our disagreement to the 
amendments of the House. 
The Vick-PRESIDENT. It is; and to agree to the amendments made 
by the House to the Senate bill. 
Mr. S. M. Cuttom. Mr. President 
Mr. P. B. Puump. If this question is to be debated any further, | 
shall certainly interpose an objection. I gave way on the supposition 
that it would be strictly a formal matter. 
Mr. Morritu. I did not suppose it would be debated. 
Mr. Cuttom. I simply desire to say that I was against the amend- 
ment attached to the bill by the other House because I believed with 
other Senators here that this was a Government affair and ought to be 
conducted and paid for by the Government, but I am so anxious to 
get something done in this respect that I am inclined to favor the 
motion of the Senator from Vermont and will vote that the Senate 
shall concur in the House amendment. 
Mr. R. L. Greson. I am as much opposed to the House amendment 
as any Senator here. I think it is a great injustice to the people of this 
District to tax them with the cost of half of the park or the cost of 
equipping the park or imposing any tax whatever with respect to the 
park; but I shall vote to concur in the House amendment because it is 
the best we can get under the circumstances. 
Mr. J. C. Spooner. I do not intend to debate this matter, but I 
desire to say as a member of the conference committee that it is, in my 
opinion, absolutely useless to order another conference. From what 
took place I am entirely satisfied that the other House will not yield on 
this question, and it means this proposition or no bill. 
Mr. H. L. Dawes. When this matter was before the Senate at first I 
stated my view, that I was in favor of relieving the District from its 
share of this burden. I am still of that opinion, and I should vote 
against the motion of the Senator from Vermont were it not for the 
statements which he and the other conferees have made to the Senate 
and what we all know has transpired elsewhere. It is necessary, in 
my opinion, in order to obtain the passage of the bill, that we should 
recede; and therefore, without changing my opinion as to the justice 
of the matter, I shall vote to recede. 
Mr. McPuerson. There seems to be a consensus of opinion here in 
the minds of Senators who have spoken upon this question that it is a 
very great injustice that you propose to visit this expense upon the 
taxpayers of the city of Washington, who have no representative on 
