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where they have obtained the best practical operation. They have to 
send men to gather specimens in the Northwest and everywhere, and 
while part of this is being carried on, it is being done in a manner 
which serves for the adornment of the city and enjoyment of the citi- 
zens of Washington, and they have just as much interest and no more 
interest in it than they have in the Capitol Grounds, in the grounds 
of the White House, or any other of the public grounds used for other 
purposes. By treating it any other way than as part of that Institu- 
tion we make it so that the whole matter may come up hereafter, and 
we make the management of it certainly and continually a matter for 
Congressional dispute, which has been the case ever since this was 
done. This isa very small part of the $34,000,000 appropriated in 
this bill, and the objection to it seems to be a saving at the spigot with 
danger of a probable waste at the bunghole in the future. 
Mr. Cannon. Just a word about this matter. It is a question that 
has been traveled over three times, and I hope the committee is pre- 
pared to vote. I do not agree with the gentleman from Kentucky 
that this is to carry out James Smithson’s bequest. The Government 
is being compelled by Congress to provide a ‘‘zoo” for the city of 
Washington in the District of Columbia, and we make donation of 
one-half of the cost therefor from the public Treasury. Every other 
city has to provide its own ‘‘zoo;” and, besides that, we donate the 
superintendent and the officers connected with the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution, who are supported in the main by the public. I hope that we 
can now have a vote. 
Mr. J. T. Hearn. I desire to make an inquiry of my friend from 
Illinois. 
The CrarrMan. Debate upon the pending amendment has been 
exhausted. The question is on agreeing to the amendment of the 
gentleman from Kentucky, which the Clerk will read. 
The Clerk again read the amendment. 
Mr. Hrarp. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out the last word. I 
am in favor of the amendment for the reasons given by the gentleman 
from Kentucky [Mr. Breckinridge] in better form and more forcibly 
than I can hope to put them myself. I believe there should be a 
divorcement right now of the union that was made without any 
authority of law and upon a ground which I do not think my friend 
from Illinois [Mr. Cannon] would attempt to justify before his people 
in Illinois, as I would not attempt to justify it before my people in 
Missouri had I ever favored it. 
Now, | differed with my friend from Illinois in my vote in regard to 
this matter in the first place. I was opposed to saddling half of this 
expense upon the people of the District of Columbia. I believed that 
the Government ought to have a zoological garden, but not, as my 
friend states, for the benefit of the District of Columbia. I would like 
