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Mr. Cummines. No amendment whatever. This is the original 
Senate joint resolution. 
The Speaker. The Chair hears no objection. 
Passed. 
January 9, 1893. 
Resolved, etc., That the vacancy in the Board of Regents of the 
Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than members of Congress, 
shall be filled by the reappointment of James B. Angell, of Michigan, 
whose term of office expires on January 19, 1893. 
(Stat. XX VII, p. 752.) 
STATUE OF SPENCER F. BAIRD. 
December 15, 1891—Senate. 
Mr. J. S. Morritu introduced bill (S. 832): 
That the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution be, and are hereby, authorized to 
contract for a statue in bronze of Spencer F. Baird, late Secretary of the Smithsonian 
Institution, to be erected upon the grounds in front of the National Museum; and 
for this purpose, and for the entire expense of the foundation and pedestal of the 
monument, the sum of $15,000, or so much of said sum as may be needed, is hereby 
appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 
Referred to Committee on the Library. 
GEOGRAPHIC NAMES. 
December 23, 1891—Senate. / 
Message from the President of the United States, Benjamin Harri- 
son, in regard to the establishment of a Board on Geographic Names 
and designating representatives, viz: 
Prof. Thomas C. Mendenhall, of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, 
chairman. 
Andrew H. Allen, Department of State. 
Capt. Henry L. Howison, Light-House Board, Treasury Department. 
Capt. Thomas Turtle, Engineer Corps, War Department. 
Lieut. Commander Richardson Clover, Hydrographic Office, Navy Department. 
Pierson H. Bristow, Post-Oftice Department. 
Otis T. Mason, Smithsonian Institution. 
Herbert G. Ogden, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. 
Henry Gannett, United States Geological Survey. 
Marcus Baker, United States Geological Survey. 
A report of the Board also submitted. 
Referred to Committee on Printing. 
(Printed as H. Ex. Doc. No. 16, Fifty-second Cong., first session.) 
January 5, 1892—House. 
Message from the President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, 
with a report of the United States Board on Geographic Names. (H. 
Ex. Doc. No. 16.) 
Ordered to be printed. 
Referred to Committee on Foreign Affairs. 
