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public safety and what to matters of less urgency, and that they should either be 
allowed to expend on the part upon which the safety of the public and the existence 
of the animals especially depends, that which their experience has shown to be 
indispensable, or that they should be relieved of responsibility for the consequences. 
They desire to add in further explanation that they do not suppose that with the 
total appropriation of $50,000, of which $26,000 is for ‘‘maintenance’’ (mentioned 
in the resolution), the park can be properly conducted, and that they believe this 
sum to be in fact inadequate for such conduct, their intent being to state to Congress 
the sum below which, according to their experience, it is impossible to undertake 
that the park shall be carried on another year, though not creditably, yet without 
most probable danger. 
The resolutions are as follows: 
Resolved, That the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution would respect- 
fully represent to Congress the impossibility of maintaining the United States 
National Zoological Park, required by the act of Congress of April 30, 1890, with a 
less total appropriation than $50,000, of which at least $26,000 will be required for 
maintenance. . 
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Institution be requested to communicate this 
resolution to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House, with a prelimi- 
nary statement of the reasons and considerations on which it is based. 
I have the honor to be, sir, with great respect, your obedient servant, 
S. P. Lanauery, Secretary. . 
Hon. Leyr P. Morton, 
President of the Senate. 
Referred to Committee on Appropriations. 
July 28, 1892. 
Deficiency act for 1892, etc. 
To pay Melville Lindsay for rubber boots furnished to employees 
engaged to work in water in the National Zoological Park, being a 
deficiency for the fiscal year 1891, $38. 
(Stat., X XVII, 284.) 
August 5, 1892. 
Sundry civil act for 1893. 
For,continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, water sup- 
ply, sewerage, and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise 
improving the grounds; erecting, and repairing buildings and inclo- 
sures for animals; and for administrative purposes, care, subsistence, 
and transportation of animals, including salaries or compensation of 
all necessary employees, and general incidental expenses not otherwise 
provided for, $50,000, 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; and a report in detail of the expenses 
on account of the National Zoological Park shall be made to Congress 
at the beginning of each regular session. 
(Stat., XX VIT, 360.) 
January 28, 1893—House. 
The sundry civil bill for 1894 (H. 10238) under consideration: 
Mr. Witu1am 8. Hotman. Mr. Chairman, only a word. I sympa- 
