1534 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION REPORT. 
June 18, 1890—Senate. 
The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (Mr. S. P. Laneuey), 
transmitted the annual report of the American Historical Association 
for 1889. 
Referred to Committee on the Library. 
August 27, 1890—Senate. 
Mr. C. F. Manperson, from Committee on Printing, submitted 
_report (S. 1653) on Senate concurrent resolution. 
The American Historical Society was incorporated by an act of 
Congress, approved January 4, 1889. This is the first report submitted 
by the society, and will make about 400 octavo pages. The subjects 
treated of in the report are: (1) General report of the proceedings of 
the annual meeting held in Washington, December 28 to 31, 1889; (2) 
inaugural address of President Charles Kendall Adams on *‘‘ Recent 
historical work in the colleges and universities of Europe and Amer- 
ica”; (3) ‘* The spirit of historical research,” by James Schouler, of 
Boston; (4) ‘‘ The origin of the national scientific and educational 
institutions of the United States,” by Dr. G. Brown Goode, Assistant 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, etc.; (5) Bibliography of the 
published works of the members of the American Historical Associa- 
tion, by Paul Leicester Ford, of Brooklyn, N. Y. The cost of print- 
ing and binding will be $1,361.25. 
The committee report the concurrent resolution back with the 
recommendation that it do pass. 
Resolved, etc., That there be printed of the report of the American Historical Asso- 
ciation for the year ending December 31, 1889, 4,500 extra copies, of which 1,000 
copies shall be for the use of the Senate, 2,000 for the use of the House of Represen- 
tatives, and 1,500 for the use of the Smithsonian Institution and the American His- 
torical Association. 
Mr. P. B. Ptums. Will the Senator from Nebraska explain what 
that document is and how it comes to be proper to have it printed at 
the expense of the Treasury 4 
Mr. Manperson. By an act of Congress passed —— 
Mr. F. M. Cocxretu. I think we had better let that go over. I 
should like to look into it. 
Mr. Manprrson. The report accompanying the resolution presents 
quite fully the history of the American Historical Association. It 
was organized by an act of Congress by a provision in an appropria- 
tion bill in the year 1888. This is the first report of that association. 
The Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Hoar] and the Senator from 
Connecticut [Mr. Hawley], I believe, are members of the society, and 
they are quite familiar with its work. It was considered well by the 
Committee on Printing, as the report contains so large an amount of 
important matter and the cost is not a very great one, that this num- 
ber of their first report should be printed. 
