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Mr. Reacan. Of course Texas would participate in that benefit, but 
all the States west of the Mississippi River, including two-thirds of 
the territory of this Union, would have the benefit of it. 
Mr. Morean. But Washington would not. 
Mr. Reacan. Besides the navigation along our seacoast would have 
the benefit of it; because when a harbor is made there so that deep-draft 
vessels can enter, the large vessels from New York, from Boston, 
from Philadelphia, from Baltimore will come there with their cargoes, 
and there receive their cargoes, while now they have but light-draft 
vessels and it causes transportation to be much more costly to the 
people. 
But, Mr. President, we have made many improvements; we have 
appropriated a great deal of money for the improvement of the Missis- 
sippi River, a great deal for the improvement of the Alabama River, 
and for the improvement of the harbor of Mobile, I suppose as much 
as ever has been appropriated to Galveston, not specially because it 
was to benefit Mobile any more than the appropriation to which the 
Senator refers benefits the local community of Galveston, but it was 
for the benefit of the commerce of the United States, for the benefit, 
so far as the world is interested in it, of the world’s commerce. 
I do not care to go into that discussion as to the extent to which the 
appropriations for our rivers and harbors benefit the whole community. 
I think that it is very well understood, and it bears no analogy to the 
case before us of building a zoological garden in the District of Colum- 
bia for the pleasure of people who come from abroad, not for the 
benefit of the people of the District, as the Senator tells us. ; 
So I prefer to come back to the point from which I started, and to 
repeat that if the people who are here do not wish to be taxed for the 
Zoological Garden $200,000 or $300,000 I do not see the justice of 
imposing a tax upon people who will never see it for the benefit of 
people who would refuse to accept it if they had to pay their part of it. 
Then, Mr. President, it is not my suggestion that the whole tax of 
that garden should be imposed upon the District; it is that they should 
pay their part, and if it goes on, that the Federal Government should 
pay one-half of that expense, not the whole of it. It is a question 
now whether the Federal Treasury shall pay all or one-half for the 
establishment of a zoological garden for the pleasure and the amuse- 
ment of the people who live here and those who happen casually to 
come here. 
Mr. President, I do not wish to detain the Senate longer, but I wish 
to say that Senators might as well reflect upon it that when we are 
making this District cost the people here and .the general Treasury 
more than $5,000,000 a year we are guilty of extravagance no people 
are guilty of; we are guilty of recklessness of appropriations that no 
men would be guilty of if they were surrounded by people who are to 
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