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FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS, 1889-1891. 1501 
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS MEMORIAL. 
February 18, 1890—House. 
Mr. James BucHanan introduced bill (H. 7165): 
That there shall be established in the city of Washington, in the District of Colum- 
bia, a memorial to Christopher Columbus, which memorial shall be of the character 
and erected in the manner hereinafter provided. 
Src. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution, and the Librarian of Congress be, and they are hereby, constituted a board to 
select a site, adopt a plan for, and superintend the erection of said memorial; within 
two months after the passage of this act the said board shall advertise for plans and 
specifications for such erection; said advertisement shall contain a short statement of 
the design and purpose of such memorial, and a requirement that any plan submitted 
shall be capable of subsequent extension and addition, and that for the successful 
design a fee of $5,000 will be paid; upon the adoption of such design said board shall 
proceed to erect upon the grounds, preferably connected with the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion, such memorial. The superintendence of said work shall be under the direction 
of some officer of engineers in the United States Army, to be detailed for that pur- 
pose by the President of the United States upon the request of said board. 
Sec. 3. That any design adopted by said board shall provide galleries for the exhi- 
bition of paintings and sculptures by American artists first, and second by alien artists; 
such design shall also provide halls and galleries for the exhibition of the best and most 
worthy products of American artisanship, including the application of art and orna- 
ment to articles of use. It shall also make provision for the exhibition of the progress 
of the mechanical arts and inventions as applied to manufacturing, the arts, and to 
agriculture, and to carry out the central design of such memorial, which shall be 
primarily to afford an exhibition, permanent and progressive, of the achievements 
of the art and industry of the people of the United States, and secondarily to gather 
together and exhibit the most worthy works of art and industry of alien people 
obtainable by the people or the Government of the United States for that purpose. 
Sec. 4. That the said board are hereby charged with the duty of having the said 
memorial so far advanced in course of erection that the corner stone thereof shall be 
laid upon the four hundredth anniversary of the first landing of Christopher Columbus 
upon American soil, and to provide for appropriate ceremonies in connection there- 
with, of which an oration by the President of the United States shall form a part. 
Sec. 5. That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act the sum of 
$1,000,000 is hereby appropriated, to be payable within the first year after the 
approval of this act, and the sum of $2,000,000 thereafter annually until the full sum 
of $5,000,000 in all shall have been paid, and all payments shall be made upon the 
requisition of the said board, and the accounts and vouchers of said board shall be 
audited and, if found correct, approved by the proper accounting officers. 
Referred to Committee on the Library. 
EXPOSITIONS. 
Chicago Exposition. 
March 15, 1890—House. 
Mr. Joun W. CanviEr, from Select Committee on the World’s Fair, 
submitted a report (H. 890) on bill (H. 8393), appended to which was a 
letter from Mr. S. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion: 
SMITHSONIAN InstitTuTION, U. S. Natrona Museum, 
Washington, March 12, 1890. 
Str. I have before me the letter of the Hon. J. W. Candler, chairman of the 
World’s Fair Committee of the House of Representatives, dated February 26, with 
