1506 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
Such an exhibition should not only be an exposition of our fishery resources and 
of the present conditions, methods, and results of the fisheries, but should also show 
the origin, progress, present conditions, methods, and results of the inquiry in regard 
to food fishes and the fishing grounds, an inquiry which has been most fruitful in 
results, economical as well as scientific, and which has served as a model, a stimulus, 
and an inspiration to other nations seeking the best means for the utilization of the 
resources of their waters. 
The exhibit should show, also, the beginning and progress, as well as the present 
conditions, of the commercial fisheries, the development of methods, apparatus, 
vessels, and boats, to meet the exigencies arising from time to time. 
It should show the origin and development of public fish-culture in the United 
States, and the present conditions, methods, and results of the work of the U. 8S. Fish 
Commission. 
The exhibit, in its essential features, would illustrate an industrial and economic 
evolution probably as distinctively characteristic of the genius of our people as is the 
evolution of our social and political institutions. 
An adequate exhibit, worthy of the occasion and of this great nation, would require 
the expenditure of not less than $150,000, and would require for effective display a 
floor space of 40,000 square feet, distributed as follows: 
Square feet. 
Objects of the fisheriesso0ic 2. 32Useo-24 1 Joo 2d) deta oe bene aoe 6, 000 
The fishing grounds; the vessels, apparatus, methods, and results of the in- 
quiry ini regard to food ‘fishes... 2. 221. 020. sboyent Vance bee pe ete 5, 000 
History, development, methods, apparatus, vessels, production, and statistics 
of the fisheries ...J2ui 025.065... .320 es Dut) Sk oleae ere erie ee 20, 000 
Fish-culture, propagation, distribution, methods, apparatus, vessels, hatcher- 
ies; ‘aud, Btabishiesy. AU bye. BE Ul Goa mes Hii 11 eto ie eeeter ALE 315 Jae 5, 000 
Aquaria, salt and fresh: water. 4. 22. csioiuepsus: Je bei, Si GE Se 4, 000 
Dota sot es twine Sb de Soe Shp ee 40, 000 
I regret that I have been delayed in furnishing the information asked for, but 
before making even approximate estimates I have found it necessary to consider the 
scope and arrangement of such an exhibit as would be required, and this has taken 
some time and labor. 
Very respectfully, M. McDonatp, 
Commissioner. 
The SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. 
Committed to Committee of the Whole. 
April 25, 1890. 
An act, ete. 
Whereas it is fit and appropriate that the four hundredth anniver- 
sary of the discovery of America be commemorated by an exhibition 
of the resources of the United States of America, their development, 
and of the progress of civilization in the New World; and 
Whereas such an exhibition should be of a national and international 
character, so that not only the people of our Union and this continent, 
but those of all nations as well, can participate, and should therefore 
have the sanction of the Congress of the United States: Therefore, 
Be tt enacted, etc., That an exhibition of arts, industries, manufac- 
tures, and products of the soil, mine, and sea shall be inaugurated in 
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