1462 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
I do not care to dwell upon this matter, but I hope that the amend- 
ment proposed by the Senate committee will not be adopted. 
Mr. J. T. Morean. Mr. President, if the people of Washington 
had any government, if the Government of the United States consid- 
ered them as being worthy of having any right to express an opinion 
upon any question connected with their welfare, we should then con- 
sult them and find out whether they did want a zoological park or not. 
But no such consultation is made. They are treated as if they were 
prisoners of war, or barbarians, or outside of the American Union. 
They have no rights of citizenship, no voice in their own government, 
no voice in the National Government, no voice in anything. Once in 
a while a man may find his way to a committee room or on the floor of 
the Senate of the United States to put up a plea in their behalf, but 
as to consulting them as to whether they want a zoological garden or 
anything else, we never do it. 
Now, if you were to leave it to a vote of the citizens of Washington 
they would not have any zoo at all. There are plenty of zoos here to 
amuse the people. Congress itself is a zoo that is big enough to enter- 
tain everybody who comes here, as well as the citizens of the city of 
Washington. There is no occasion for spreading our sources of amuse- 
ment around through the beasts and animals of the forest and of the 
jungle. We haveall kinds of representatives here that could be thought 
of, if we would just reflect a little and make comparisons. 
In the point of taxation it has been an accepted American doctrine 
everywhere except in the District of Columbia that representation 
should go along with it. Iam incapable of conceiving that there can 
be any element or fractional part of anything that resembles an Amer- 
ican government in the United States within all of its borders, unless 
it may be in an Indian tribe, where the right of taxation exists as 
against the people and the right of representation does not exist. 
So, when Senators rise here and say that these people ought to be 
taxed or else they ought to be relieved of the park, they have no voice 
upon either proposition. Why, sir, if you would put it to a vote of 
the citizens of Washington whether they would sustain a zoo here by 
taxation they would vote against it. Particularly the poor laboring 
colored people about here would vote against it. Very few of them 
will ever get to look at it. They have not time to go to see it and 
take care of their families. Because we are afraid to trust our property 
and our peace and all that sort of thing to those elements of voting 
power which operate to control the great States of the South, we must 
include Washington people—all of them, the great and the small, the 
rich and the poor—among those disqualified classes of American citi- 
zens who for some reason, which no man, I believe, is willing to state 
frankly and candidly, must be excluded from all voice in taxation and 
every other kind of lawmaking and representation. 
