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the Committee on Appropriations has the same right as any other 
member of this House to make any point of order or any objection to 
any bill that is brought, in here by any committee. Each member is 
responsible for his own action. 
Mr. Hearp. But the gentleman is inconsistent in that he insists that 
it is our duty to doa thing when his committee resists, and successfully 
resists, the doing of it on the ground that our committee had not juris- 
diction. 
Mr. Ciements. When did your committee propose any readjust- 
ment of the method of apportioning the expenses of the District gov- 
ernment between the United States and the people of the District? 
Mr. Hearp. And when has the gentleman’s Committee on Appro- 
priations proposed any such measure? And you name the proportion 
to be paid by the Government and District respectively of every item 
for joint account. 
Mr. Ciements. I can not yield any longer, Mr. Chairman. 
Mr. G. E. Apams. Will the gentleman yield to me for a question as to 
the purpose for which this park is established? The gentleman has 
compared this Zoological Park with the parks in other cities. There is 
one in Chicago, which is maintained not for the advancement of science, 
but for the entertainment of the people. Now, if this park is to be 
established and maintained for the entertainment of the people of the 
District, then the gentleman’s argument is correct; but if it is to be 
established and maintained not merely for the entertainment of the 
people, but for the advancement of science, then evidently there is 
another question involved which the gentleman has not yet touched. 
Mr. Ciements. [am much obliged to the gentleman. In relation 
to that I want to say that whatever may be the other features of the 
Zoological Park, scientific or otherwise, it is to be a park for the en- 
tertainment of the people, it is to be a park open to the public, and, 
so far as the people of this District are concerned, for every purpose 
that such a park is desirable, this city will have one. 
Mr. Apams. That is, the drives, the walks, and the grounds of the 
park considered not as a scientific park. But suppose it were not 
scientific, would it not be just as entertaining, and if there is extra 
expense incurred in adding the scientific element is it not fair to say 
that there comes in an element which the people of the District have 
nothing to do with and ought not to be required to pay for? 
Mr. Curements. If the gentleman were able to draw a line by which 
that could be determined there might be something in his suggestion; 
but whatever may be the scientific features of that park, it will un- 
doubtedly be to the people of this District for all purposes just what 
any other zoological park would be. It will be enjoyed by them and 
in the same way and to the fullest extent and at the expense to them 
of paying one-half the cost of its maintenance, and certainly I think 
