FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS, 1891-1893. 1567 
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK—APPROPRIATIONS. 
February 16, 1892—Senate. 
Mr. Joun SHERMAN. Before the bill [urgent deficiency bill (H. 5399) | 
1s reported to the Senate there is one provision in it that I should like 
to have read, that in relation to the Zoological Garden, and to call the 
attention of the Senate to it. 
The Vicr-PrestpENT (Mr. Levi P. Morton). The part referred to 
by the Senator from Ohio will be read. 
National Zoological Park: For care, subsistence, and transportation of animals for 
the National Zoological Park, and for the purchase of raré specimens not otherwise 
obtainable, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and general 
incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, being a deficiency for the fiscal year 
1892, $4,434; to reimburse the Smithsonian fund for assuming the expenses of labor 
and materials for repairs urgently necessary for the preservation of the Holt mansion, 
$499.45; in all, $4,933.45; one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of 
the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. 
Mr. SHERMAN. Does the provision about the payment of one-half 
the expenses apply to the Zoological Garden? 
Mr. Euerenre Hate. Yes, that applies to the Zoological Garden. 
Mr. SHermaAn. That question ought to be met, and I think it ought 
to be met now. It seems to me it is an act of gross injustice to the 
people of this District, who are getting to be pretty heavily taxed, to 
have to pay one-half of the expenses of the Zoological Garden. I think 
this is about as good a time as any to make the question whether it is 
right and just that the expenses of the Zoological Garden, the creature 
of the United States, belonging as much to the people of one State as 
another, certainly as much as to the people of the District of Colum- 
bia, should be required to be paid one-half by the people of the Dis- 
trict. I have no doubt it will be a somewhat expensive toy to the 
people of the United States, but is it right, is it just, to take from the 
limited means of the people of the District of Columbia to pay for 
this thing? 
It is not in any sense a part of the government of this District. It 
is admitted on all hands that the city of Washington, a city of 200,000 
inhabitants, is totally unable to maintain a zoological garden. The 
city of London can do it, the city of Paris can do it, and some other 
cities have undertaken the task, but most of them have made failures. 
The great cities of the world which maintain zoological gardens for 
the instruction and for the interest of the inhabitants of the empire to 
which those cities belong are very large and very wealthy; but to 
charge one-half of this expense—and an expense constantly growing 
and increasing—upon the District is unjust. The Government estab- 
lishes this entirely under its own management. The Commissioners 
of the District have nothing to do with it. We have an organized 
force for the purpose of maintaining and caring for it. I hope now the 
Senate will at least take the ground that it will not put this expense 
