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Zoological Garden or Park. On this point I desire also to say that the 
proposition first came to this House on an amendment proposed by 
the Senate on the sundry civil bill, and it provided for an appropria- 
tion to be paid by the Government of the United States alone. If 
that had passed in that shape it would have been a proper charge upon 
the people of the United States only; but this House deliberately 
refused to accept it in that shape and voted down the amendment of 
the Senate on the sundry civil bill to establish a zoological park at the 
expense of the people of the United States. 
At the next session of Congress those who were interested in the 
enterprise of a zoological park in the District, and out of it, made an 
effort to induce the Government of the United States, through Con- 
gress, to establish it as a national park, at national expense alone. 
Having failed in that, after deliberate and conclusive action in that 
Congress, they came back at the next session and asked the Senate to 
place it upon the District of Columbia bill, which carried the money 
belonging one-half to the District of Columbia and one-half to the 
Government. 
Mr. L. E. McComas. But my colleague will admit that those per- 
sons who urged that to be done were neither the people nor the press 
of the District. 
Mr. CiemMEnts. I will not admit fully all that my friend says. An 
effort was deliberately made to put it upon the sundry civil bill so 
that it would be at the expense of the people of the United States. 
It was deliberately and decisively rejected by this House and aban- 
doned by the Senate. At the next session, failing in that effort, the 
friends of the park and those desiring its establishment had it placed 
upon the District of Columbia bill, one-half of the expense to be 
chargeable to the people of the District and one-half to the United 
States. They were willing to accept it in that way inasmuch as they 
could not get it the other. They could get it that way, but could not 
get it the other. 
Mr. 8. R. Perers. And now they ask the Government to pay for 
all of it. 
Mr. CLEMENTS. Now, they come, as was to be expected, and insist, 
after it is once established, and there is no difficulty that it is to be 
a permanent institution, under the plea that as it is to be a national 
park, therefore it ought to be paid for by the United States entirely. 
This plea is an afterthought, perhaps, that is set up after the park 
has been established; and if Congress yields to this, how many ses- 
sions will pass before you will be required, at some time when the 
revenues of the District are down at an ebb on account of extravagant 
appropriations and expenditures, as they are now, to relieve the Dis- 
trict of one-half of the expense for the other park that was estab- 
lished at last session. There would be just as much reason for it as 
there is in relation to the Zoological Park. 
