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have said this goes farther. It not only makes the District pay one- 
half of the permanent improvement and the administration of the park, 
but it also requires it to pay one-half of the ‘‘care, subsistence, and 
transportation of animals,” and for the ‘‘ purchase of rare specimens 
not otherwise obtainable.” I think that is going rather too far. 
I have no interest whatever in the matter except in the most gen- 
eral way; but I simply offer the amendment so that it may be kept 
alive in the record, in-order that there may be a constant understand- 
ing that this position is not approved of unanimously by Congress, but 
that there were some of us at least who thought it unwise in the first 
place, and unjust to the District of Columbia in the second, to require 
this; and that it is not our desire to approve of a proposition by which 
the Government shall go into a partnership with the District for the 
establishment of a zoological park here. 
The whole ground on which I advocated, originally, the purchase 
of the park, was that the United States, after the acceptance of the 
Smithson bequest and the establishment of the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion, had already committed itself to that line of scientific inquiry or 
that line of investigation, and that this was simply the development 
of what the Government had already agreed todo. Now, to make the 
District pay one-half of the expenditure for maintenance is simply to 
remove the whole ground that justifies the expenditure in the first 
instance, because putting it upon any other basis it would be entirely 
indefensible. 
Mr. Ricoarp Vaux. The gentleman from Kentucky seems to for- 
get that there must be some basis for a bill to be brought into Congress 
to pay the deficiencies in the expenditures of the District of Columbia, 
and that this is perhaps the provision which may be used for that 
purpose. 
Mr. Breckrnriner, of Kentucky. I do not think that this bill will 
be required, I will say in answer to my friend from Philadelphia, to 
create a deficiency in the revenues of the District of Columbia; that 
I think has been fully and most adequately provided for in the Dis- 
trict of Columbia appropriation bill already passed, which was snatched 
out of the Committee of the Whole by a sort of Cxsarian process the 
other day, and I do not think therefore that we need trouble ourselves 
now about having a deficiency for the District of Columbia. [Cries 
of ‘‘ Vote!’] 
Mr. Cannon. Mr. Chairman, one word on this amendment. 
This whole matter was fully discussed at the time the park was 
authorized. It was fully discussed in the next appropriation here 
made; and the House deliberately refused to pass the bill except at 
the joint expense of the Government and the District of Columbia. 
I am satisfied that the committee and the House are of the same opin- 
ion still, and I hope will always remain of that opinion. I ask a vote. 
