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Before I yield the floor I give notice that I will move that the House 
further insist on its disagreement to the Senate amendments and ask 
for a further conference. I will make that motion now. 
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Mr. J. G. Cannon. There is plenty of business for to-morrow, and 
I believe this matter ought to be disposed of to-night. I ask to have 
read for information some proposed instructions to the conferees. 
Mr. J. C. Ciements. I yield for that purpose. 
The Clerk read: 
Resolved, That the conferees are instructed to insist that as to the Senate amend- 
ment numbered 120, so much thereof as relieves the District of all expenses incident 
to the Zoological Park be stricken out; 
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Mr. Cannon. If the conferees do not want to be instructed, I do 
not want to instruct them. I do not know that these instructions 
ought to be adopted; but the proposition places something before the 
House to be thought upon or voted upon in the event of instructions 
being desired. 
Mr. Crements. Mr. Speaker, this bill as it passed the House car- 
ried $5,285,726.17, including the water fund. Deducting that, the 
amount was $5,083,197 ay Tt was estimated that there would be an 
appropriation for the maintenance of the Zoological Park of about 
$100,000, one-half of which would be chargeable to the District of 
Columbia. That has been somewhat cut down in the sundry civil bill. 
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Another proposition is to relieve the District entirely of all that it 
has paid and is now liable to pay for the establishment and mainte- 
nance of the Zoological Park. 
Mr. McComas. That is the annual expense of maintenanée—not the 
expense of the original purchase. 
_ Mr. Crements. It repeals that part of the act, and applies, as I 
understand, to the original purchase. While I am speaking the gen- 
tleman from Maryland can look into that matter and correct me later 
if [ am in error. 
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Mr. Speaker, there is such pressure for expenditures in this Dis- 
trict that we are met with this condition of things: That either the 
people of the United States must be taxed to advance the money neces- 
sary to carry on these affairs in the District, and to carry into effect 
the appropriations made by Congress, or else the rate of taxation 
must be increased in some way in the District; or we must appropriate, 
less money. One of these three things must be done, and there is no 
other way that the committee can devise. 
Mr. J. H. BLrount. What do you recommend? 
Mr. Ciements. I repeat that the people at large, our constituents, 
