1578 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
May 10, 1892—House. 
Mr. Wiuu1aAM CoGswELL. The National Museum has been cut down 
‘from the estimate $25,000, notwithstanding the estimate states that ‘Sa 
greater number of watchmen is required to insure the safe-keeping 
of the valuable collections; and in order that the number of hours of 
service of the laboring force may not be increased, more laborers 
and cleaners are necessary for the care and arrangement of the cases 
and collections, and for keeping the building in proper condition.” 
For ‘‘cases, permanent fixtures, and appliances” required for the 
exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections of the Museum, the 
estimate has been cut $15,000, although the fact that it was required 
for the safe-keeping of the collections is emphasized; and, notwith- 
standing it is necessary to keep the temperature uniform throughout 
the twenty-four hours, the appropriation for heating, lighting, ete., 
for the Museum has been cut $2,000 less than it was last year. 
December 5, 1892—House. 
Estimates for 1894. 
For printing and binding for the National Museum, to be executed 
under the direction of the Public Printer, as follows: 
Printing labels and blanks, and for the Bulletins and annual volumes 
of the Proceedings of the National Museum, $18,000. 
Binding scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired 
by the National Museum Library, $1,000. 
Norr.—The Proceedings and Bulletins of the National Museum, printed under 
this appropriation, are not ‘‘ public documents,’’ hence no part of the edition is reg- 
ularly apportioned for distribution by the Senate and House, or to the legal deposi- 
tories. The edition of 3,000 copies now printed is only sufficient to supply, in 
limited measure, the very urgent requests from public libraries, educational institu- 
tions, and scientific investigators in the United States and throughout the world. 
One of the principal objects in asking for a larger appropriation is to enable the 
Museum to place a full series of its publications in representative libraries in different 
parts of each State. Jt is not the intention that the annual number of issues of the 
Proceedings and Bulletins should be increased, but that a larger edition of each 
should be printed. On account of the small edition the Museum fails to receive in 
exchange the valuable publications of many scientific institutions. 
The amounts hitherto appropriated, though expended with strict economy, have 
been found inadequate. 
For postage stamps and foreign postal cards and postage for the 
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum, Bureau of International 
Exchanges, Bureau of Ethnology, and National Zoological Park, $500. 
For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the col- 
lections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Govern- 
ment and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all 
necessary employees, $180,000. 
Norr.—The growth of the collections, the increase in the number of visitors, and 
in the number and variety of the demands of educational institutions and the public 
render it extremely desirable that the appropriation for the Museum should be larger. 
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