FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS, 1889-1891. 1415 
The result was announced—yeas 33, nays 20; as follows: 
Yeras.—Aldrich, Allen, Berry, Chandler, Cockrell, Coke, Colquitt, Cullom, Dawes, 
Dixon, Evarts, Gibson, Gorman, Gray, Jones of Nevada, Morgan, Morrill, Payne, 
Pierce, Platt, Plumb, Power, Pugh, Quay, Reagan, Sanders, Sherman,Spooner, Stewart, 
Stockbridge, Voorhees, Washburn, Wilson of Maryland—33. 
Nays.—Allison, Barbour, Bate, Blodgett, Butler, Call, Casey, Eustis, Faulkner, 
Hale, Hampton, Harris, Hawley, Ingalls, McMillan, Moody, Teller, Vance, Walthall, 
Wilson of lowa—20. 
Axssent.—Beck, Blackburn, Blair, Brown, Cameron, Daniel, Davis, Dolph, Ed- 
munds, Farwell, Frye, George, Hearst, Higgins, Hiscock, Hoar, Jones of Arkansas, 
Kenna, McPherson, Manderson, Mitchell, Paddock, Pasco, Pettigrew, Ransom, Saw- 
yer, Squire, Stanford, Turpie, Vest, Wolcott. 
So the Senate receded from its disagreement to the amendments of 
the House. 
April 30, 1890. 
Be it enacted, etc., That the one half of the following sums named, 
respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of 
the District of Columbia, for the organization, improvement, and 
maintenance of the National Zoological Park, to be expended under 
the direction of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, and to be 
drawn on their requisition and disbursed by the disbursing officer for 
said Institution: 
For the shelter of animals, $15,000. 
For shelter-barns, cages, fences, and inclosures, and other provisions 
for the custody of 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 otherwise provided for, $5,000. 
For current expenses, including the maintenance of collections, food 
supplies, salaries 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 directions 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 advancement of science and the instructien and recreation of 
' the people. 
