-FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS, 1889-1891. 14538 
J. S. Morrill, member of the Senate of the United States. 
8. M. Cullom, member of the Senate of the United States. 
Randall Lee Gibson, member of the Senate of the United States. 
Joseph Wheeler, member of the House of Representatives, 
Benjamin Butterworth, member of the House of Representatives. 
H. Cabot Lodge, member of the House of Representatives. 
Henry Coppée, citizen of Pennsylvania. (Bethlehem.) 
James C. Welling, citizen of Washington. 
M. C. Meigs, citizen of Washington. 
J. B. Angell, citizen of Michigan. (Ann Arbor.) 
Andrew D. White, citizen of New York 
This is the Board fictitiously supposed to administer this trust. 
Their actual information is limited to what they find in a statement of 
expenditures not itemized or detailed so as to convey practical infor- 
mation. They examine a column of figures, look at a skeleton map, 
guess at the sum total, and imagine the design of the work, and by a 
unanimous vote approve it. Here are two members of the House who 
are members of the Board, one saying that three meetings were held 
_ and another saying that two meetings were held, and both confessing 
that they were not present at either one—or at least my friend from 
Ohio confesses that he did not attend. 
Now, Mr. Speaker, I think that this House should know whether 
or not there has been legal authority for the expenditure of this 
money; and the Secretary of the Treasury ought to answer the ques- 
tion whether or not money has been paid out without meeting the 
requirements of the law. Is there any gentleman on the other side 
who objects to that, or who thinks that this is a political matter ? 
J am not trying to impeach a Republican or to stain the character of 
a political party, for I do not know politics in this, but I am trying to 
see that the expenditures of the public moneys are properly directed, 
and thatthe object of this appropriation shall be attained under some 
competent authority. In addition to this Zoological Park we are to 
have the Rock Creek Park. That has been placed under the control 
of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, General Casey; 
Colonel Robert, the engineer of the District of Columbia, and three 
citizens to be appointed by the President of the United States. One 
. of those appointed by the President is a distinguished citizen of the 
~ State of Ohio, General Boynton. The other two, I understand, are 
citizens of the District. They are very sure to exercise a wise super- 
vision over that enterprise. They are sure to pay some attention to 
the expenditure of the funds, and to see that it is properly expended. 
The taxpayers of the District of Columbia are compelled by Con- 
gress against their will to pay one-half of the expense of this park. 
They should be protected by somebody, and not be left to the merey 
of a Congressional, Senatorial, or Presidential committee, which does 
not know anything about propagating possums and coons or about the 
