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the salaries and compensation necessary for employees to erect and 
repair the buildings, and do nothing else? 
Mr. Auuison. Yes, sir; that is what I suppose. 
Mr. Hoar. Well, if that is the intent of it, it is all right, but I do 
not believe it. 
The Prestp1ne Orricer. The question is on agreeing to the amend- 
ment moved by the Senator from Iowa. 
The amendment was agreed to. 
The reading of the bill was resumed. The next amendment of the 
Committee on Appropriations was, on page 41, line 22, after the word 
**dollars,” to strike out ‘‘ one-half of which sum shall be paid from the 
revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the 
Treasury of the United States;” so as to make the clause read: 
For care, subsistence, and transportation of animals for the National Zoological 
Park, and for the purpose [purchase] of rare specimens not otherwise obtainable, 
including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and general inci- 
dental expenses not otherwise provided for, $17,500; in all, $50,500. 
Mr. J. H. Reaaan. I will inquire of the chairman of the committee 
if we did not in a bill that was recently passed release the people of 
the city from paying any part of the cost of the purchase of this 
Zoological Park ? 
Mr. Auuison. That is the object of the amendment, to strike out 
one-half. 
Mr. Reacan. I know, but I am speaking of a bill which passed the 
Senate recently, which assumed that the Government was to pay what 
it was provided in the last Congress the city should pay; that is, one- 
half of the expenses of this park. 
Mr. Auuison. I believe there was an amendment to that effect, but 
it did not pass. There is no provision as yet for refunding to the Dis- 
trict government one-half the amount of the original payment. 
Mr. Reagan. It passed the Senate, but I understand it did not pass 
into a law. 
Mr. President, I do not myself understand why the people of this 
District should be relieved of their part of the expense of this Zoolog- 
ical Park. If they do not want it, then it ought not to be imposed 
upon them by Congress. If they do want it, they ought to pay their 
part of the expense of it. When we think of the fact that millions 
of dollars are paid out of the Treasury monthly here in this District, 
where there is more money in circulation than anywhere in the great 
commercial cities of the Union, infinitely more than in any of the 
rural portions of the country, I do not understand why the people 
here should be relieved from taxes and people much less favored be 
required to pay their faxes, and especially Ido not understand why 
they should be relieved from those which go to ornamentation and 
pleasure. 
