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in the Interior Department, that the resolution which the committee 
authorized to be reported to the House was not reported here and dis- 
posed of. 
There was no attempt to impeach the integrity or the honesty of 
the gentleman who has so far administered the Zoological Park fund. 
The simple question presented and the one upon which I want infor- 
mation is whether or not the appropriation made by the Government 
for that purpose has been or is being expended by any individual 
without due legal authority. 
I understand, Mr. Speaker, that the Secretary of the Smithsonian 
“Institution fun I understand it from his own statement before the 
committee) has been spending this money for the improvement of the 
-Zoological Park without any authority from the Board of Regents; 
that he was governed by the authority and direction of the executive 
board; and as evidence of that fact I will send to the Clerk’s desk and 
ask to have read an extract from the Washington Post of January 29, 
showing that the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution had not 
authorized one dollar of this money to be drawn from the Treasury 
and expended by anybody up to the time that this resolution was 
passed. : 
The Clerk read: 
The annual report of the executive committee, showing the expenditures for 
National Museum, Exchanges, Zoological Park, and Bureau of Ethnology, and giving 
a general statement of the finances of the Institution, was submitted. The follow- 
ing resolution was adopted: 
Whereas by an act of Congress of April 30, 1890, the National Zoological Park is 
placed under the direction of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, the action 
of the executive committee, during the recess of the board, in authorizing the Sec- 
retary of the Institution to act for and in the name of the Regents in all matters 
pertaining to the National Zoological Park is hereby approved, and the Regents 
authorize and direct the Secretary of the Institution to sign in their name all requi- 
sitions on the United States Treasury for the money appropriated by Congress for 
the National Zoological Park, and to approve for payment by the disbursing officer 
of the Smithsonian Institution all bills for services and supplies for said park. 
The resolution was adopted the 28th day of January, 1891. The 
act vesting the trust in the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 
was approved April 30, 1890. 
Mr. Entor. Mr. Speaker, when that resolution was adopted it was 
a confession of all that I have said about the disbursement of this 
fund. It was an acknowledgment that prior to that time there had 
been no authority given to the Secretary of that board to draw one 
dollar of this money from the Treasury and expend it in the improve- 
ment of the Zoological Park. I am not so much interested in the 
Zoological Park from the standpoint of science as I am that whatever 
money is appropriated by Congress shall be properly expended and 
that the expenditures shall result in giving to the people of this city 
