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in this indirect way, and I think it is very important that we shall not 
do so, because if we are ever to take up that question again with a view 
of establishing a new relation we should not want to be embarrassed 
by such a consideration as the expenditure of a part of the money 
of the District for zoological purposes, which would necessarily be 
involved. : 
The Prestpine Orricer. The question is on agreeing to the amend- 
ment of the committee. 
The amendment was agreed to. 
Mr. A. P. Gorman. We have, I know, the usual complaints as to 
improvements made in the different sections of the city. I hold in my 
hand a statement, which I will not trouble the Senate to read, from 
residents of the northeastern section of the city—the old complaint, it 
is true—that there has been great discrimination and that probably 
nine-tenths of the money appropriated has been expended in the north- 
western section of the city. As the case now stands there will not be 
a dollar of money to provide for the improvements which are con- 
templated in this bill until the taxes are paid in 1892, and, as the Sen- 
ator from Kansas says, even then we shall be $100,000 short, if I 
understood him correctly, unless we succeed in having the amendment 
of the Senate agreed to relieving the District from the Zoological 
Park tax. 
Mr. Piume. I wish to say to the Senator in the same connection 
that last year the Senate, on motion of the committee of which he is a 
member as well as myself provided for the repayment to the District 
of $100,000, the sum paid for the land embraced in the Zoological 
Park, which I think ought to be in this bill. In other words, as I 
believe, the annual expenses of the Zoological Park ought to be paid 
by the General Government, and so I think the land covered by that 
park ought to be paid for by the Government. 
Mr. Gorman. There is no provision in the bill for that purpose, I 
understand. 
Mr. Prume. There is no provision for that purpose. That would 
just about make the two ends meet against the contingencies about 
which we have been speaking. 
Mr. Gorman. I trust the Senator in charge of the bill will prepare 
an amendment to that effect before the bill leaves the Senate and let 
us vote upon it. I supposed that provision had been made for the 
purchase of the land as well as the expenditures of the park. The 
park, as a matter of course, is a national affair. It was gotten up 
originally, as I understand, by gentlemen connected with the Smith- 
sonian Institution. It is their affair. They collected here a lot of 
animals and curiosities of various sorts which they wanted this park 
for, and I am informed, it is true not officially, that selected spots 
are being laid off and disposed of by the professors of the Smithsonian 
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