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fair to charge to the people of the District a matter like this, in which 
they only have the same interest the other people of the —=— States 
have. 
Therefore we have provided here that that money charged apuingt 
the District last year shall be credited to their finances, and with these 
two items the amount appropriated by this bill will be, less the avail- 
able resources, about $100,000. That is to say, if the anticipations in 
regard to the revenues are realized and all the money appropriated by 
this bill shall finally be found in it when it becomes a law, there will 
be in the neighborhood of $100,000 over and above what is necessary 
for the purpose. 
It can be readily seen, of course, that the park itself might fail to 
answer the purposes for which it was intended or to be of any conse- 
quence, if we were to be all the time limited in the acquisition of spec- 
imens and in the incurring of expenses, to funds which might be 
derived from taxing this District rather than to the ability of the 
Treasury to meet charges of this kind. 
But it is unjust that this expenditure should be put upon the District 
of Columbia, because the District has no interest in it that is not com- 
mon to all the people of the United States. Congress may think, 
guided by the views of the head of the Smithsonian Institution or 
somebody else, that we ought to get some expensive specimen, or a 
zebra, or a rhinoceros, or an elephant, or hippopotamus, or something 
of that kind from a great distance, in which the interest of science 
and the spread of general intelligence are involved, but not questions 
relating to this immediate locality. 
I have thought it wise to make this statement in order that, if the 
Senate should adopt this amendment, the whole subject with reference 
to the controversy which may or may not ensue, but which will be © 
liable to ensue with another legislative body, might be put upon a 
proper and rational basis. 
As to the park which has been provided for, to be located imme- 
diately north of the zoological gardens, that is a different thing. Pro- 
vision has beén made for the payment of one-half of the expense of 
the land for that park out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, 
and no doubt in time, when it comes to be improved and policed and 
taken care of from year to year, Congress will allot a proper propor- 
tion of the expenses of that park to the revenues of the District of 
Columbia, because that park comes within the proper statement of 
a municipal purpose. But the zoological garden is an entirely and 
wholly different thing. 
While I say now, as I have heretofore said, that I think the arrange- 
ment to-day between the District of Canings and the Government of 
the United States with reference to the payment of the expenses of the 
District is too liberal to the District, yet I am unwilling to disturb it 
