1592 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
February 13, 1893—Senate. 
Mr. Wiiu1aM B. Autison, from Committee on Appropriations, sub- 
mitted report (5S. 1287): 
; [Extract.] 
[By Prof. G. Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary, representing Smithsonian Institution and National 
Museum, February 6, 1893.] 
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The plan and estimates submitted to you on June 30, 1892, was largely reduced 
from the original plan furnished to the Secretary of the Treasury on March 12, 1890, 
which was by no means an extravagant one to have undertaken, in view of the 
importance of the occasion and the great expectations of the people who will attend 
the exposition. Indeed, the exhibition of the-Institution, as at that time limited, 
would not have been so extensive as that made at the exhibition of 1876, though in 
nearly every respect a better one. As we are at present situated, unless Congress 
should appropriate the additional sum for which we have been hoping, a still further 
reduction will be necessary. We shall, of course, send the objects which have been- 
prepared at the expense of the appropriation, but many very conspicuous gaps exist 
in the series which we had hoped to exhibit. These can not be filled without addi- 
tional money, and, furthermore, many objects from the Museum itself, which we 
had hoped to be able to send, can not go owing to the lack of money to provide 
suitable cases and to pay the expenses of transportation. The charges imposed by 
the railroads and by the people in Chicago for the storage of packing boxes are so 
enormous in comparison with what has been paid by the Government on previous 
occasions, that it isevident that the incidental expenses will be very much larger 
than ever before, and that in order to carry out, with present resources and without 
incurring a deficiency, even the modified plan will necessitate the closest economy 
and a very considerable diminution of the effect of the exhibition in every direction. 
In the matter of the decoration of the walls of the exhibition halls with striking 
objects in keeping with the collection on the floor below, it will be impossible for 
us to do anything except in the most meager way. 
With rigid economy an additional $30,000 to our allotment, such as I understand 
would come to us if Congress grants the sum asked for, would enable us to make a 
creditable exhibition. The effect of any diminution of this amount will, in spite of 
our best efforts, undoubtedly be perceptible to visitors, and will prevent the send- 
ing of things which would add much to the effect and value of our display. 
March 3, 1893. 
Sundry civil act for 1894. 
Government Exhibit: For the selection, purchase, preparation, 
transportation, installation, care and custody, and return of such arti- 
cles and materials as the heads of the several Executive Departments, 
_the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, and the United 
States Fish Commission may decide shall be embraced in the Govern- 
ment exhibit, and such additional articles as the President may desig- 
nate for said exposition, and for the employment of proper persons as 
officers and assistants to the Board of Control and Management of the 
Government exhibit, appointed by the President, of which not exceed- 
ing $10,000 may be expended by said board for clerical services 
$150,750; of which sum $50,000 shall be immediately available: Pro- 
vided, That the sum of $8,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 
may be expended under the supervision of the Board of Control of 
