FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS, 1889-1891. 1471 
There is no hardship on the taxpayers of the District of Columbia 
in requiring them to pay one-half of the expense. What other city 
in the United States having a zoological or other park does not pay 
every dollar of the expense of its establishment and maintenance? 
You go to the cities of Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, and other 
places where they have their zoological gardens for the benefit of the 
people of those great cities, and those people pay every dollar for 
them. If Washington wants a zoological park, why should it not bear 
the expense as any other city does? It is certainly no hardship to pay 
half the expense. 
Mr. J. T. Hearn. I will ask if there is any city which has estab- 
lished a zoological park of their own at their own expense where the 
General Government exercises absolute control over the work, pro- 
vides the officers who control and superintend it, as they do in the 
case of this park? 
Mr. Ciements. There is not, for the very reason that there is no 
other place where there is a national capital of the United States 
except this. 
Mr. Hearp. And should Congress make good a deficit out of the 
pockets of the people of the District, when the people have nothing 
at all to say about the matter? 
Mr. Ciements. Not at all. This is not to make upa deficit. There 
was a surplus in the revenues of the District at the time over and 
beyond the appropriations, and the money was paid and has been paid. 
It is not to make up a deficit in the Treasury of the United States; 
but it is a proposition to repay to the District of Columbia that which 
has already been appropriated and paid in order to make up a deficit 
for the District of Columbia. 
Mr. Hearp. But appropriated and paid by authority of Congress, 
not by the people of the District. 
Mr. CLeMEntTs. Just as all appropriations for the District are made. 
Mr. R. P. Buanp. Will my friend allow me to ask him a question? 
Mr. Ciements. Certainly. 
Mr. Bianp. What other city in the Union is there where the Fed- 
eral Government pays half the taxes for the improvement of their 
streets and of their property, and relieves them to that extent of tax- 
ation ? 
Mr. Cements. I was just going to state further, in answer to my 
other friend from Missouri, in which he asked in regard to other 
cities. The condition of things which necessarily exists in the Dis- 
trict of Columbia and in Washington does not exist in relation to any 
other city, for the reason that there is but one national capital. 
The Constitution of the United States declares substantially that 
Congress shall exercise exclusive legislation over not exceeding 10 
miles square of such reservation as shall be ceded by the States for a 
