FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS, 1889-1891. 1467 
when I say that I remember that if Senators were among their own 
people, in their own homes, they would hardly tell them that they 
ought to be taxed for the benefit of the people of the District of 
Columbia, especially when, recurring to the point that I started out 
with, I remember that millions of dollars are paid out monthly here; 
that money is freely circulated; that wages are high, and the people 
more prosperous than anywhere I know of within the United States 
as a general mass. 
My friend the Senator from Alabama said awhile ago that the poor 
colored people if we had a Zoological Park could not get there. His 
experience is very different from mine. If there is a park in this city 
that they do not get into, it is one that I have never discovered, and 
one I judge that he never will discover. If there is a place of amuse- 
ment that they are not in, then he has found a place of amusement that 
I have never found in the District of Columbia. 
Mr. Morean. But they do not have the right to vote. 
Mr. Reagan. I think it is a most fortunate thing for them and for 
the District that they do not have the right to vote. I agree with an 
expression made, I believe, by the Senator from Missouri, that it is 
very fortunate for this District, under the conditions that attend it, 
that the people do not vote. 
Mr. Morean. Will the Senator yield to me? 
Mr. Reaean. If the Senator will let me finish my sentence I will 
yield with pleasure. If it were the case that they had the right to 
vote, we would here exhibit to the world the condition of things with 
which a number of cities of this country are cursed; we would exhibit 
a condition of things that would make men blush who do not now 
comprehend what it means to see a country governed by an ignorant 
rabble. 
Mr. Morean. If I remember the figures aright, I think we have 
appropriated $5,000,000 or it may be $8,000,000 for the deepening of 
the water in the harbor of Galveston. Now, 1 claim that the people 
of Washington contribute very largely to that money for the benefit 
of the State of Texas, that wonderful empire out there, and that we 
ought not to be too harsh on them. 
Mr. Reacan. Mr. President, I know the fertility of the Senator’s 
mind. 
Mr. Morean. But I speak of the fact. There is nothing fertile 
about that; it is a fact. 
Mr. Reacan. I know the illimitable resources of the Senator in 
argument. He would answer me by saying that it was agreed to 
appropriate five or six million dollars for the improvement of the 
harbor at Galveston. I suppose the Senator would have it understood 
that that is for the benefit of Texas. 
Mr. Morean. Yes, mainly. 
