FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS, 1891-1893. 1601 
drawings of prehistoric copper objects, and 1,000 pen and pencil drawings, with the 
records and written descriptions of these things, for the sum of $17,000; and in the 
event the said drawings and drawings and descriptions should be printed and pub- 
lished by the Smithsonian Institution 50 copies thereof shall be furnished and deliy- 
ered to the said Frederick 8. Perkins without charge. 
Referred to Committee on Appropriations. 
APPROPRIATIONS DISCUSSED. 
May 12, 1892—House. 
The sundry civil bill for 1893 under consideration: 
The Cuarrman (Mr. J. H. Biount). The Chair regrets very much 
that he can not depart from the order of the committee. 
Mr. B. A. Entoz. The Chair did not submit to the Committee of 
the Whole the question of passing these paragraphs over. 
The Cuarrman. The gentleman is mistaken. 
Mr. Entor. I did not hear it. I certainly should not have con- 
sented. I adjourned the special investigating committee in order to 
be here to offer amendments to this part of the bill at this time. 
Mr. W. 8. Horman. You will have the opportunity hereafter. 
Mr. Entor. I do not know whether I shall have an opportunity to 
be in the House when this part of the bill is taken up hereafter. 
Mr. Horman. There will be no trouble about that. I suggest that 
if the gentleman has the amendment prepared the committee may 
consent now that it be printed. 
Mr. Entor. I would be very glad to have this matter settled now. 
The Clerk resumed the reading of the bill: 
UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 
National Museum: For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of 
the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government 
and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, 
$120,000: Provided, That all articles imported for the permanent use of the National 
Museum shall be admitted without the payment of duties. 
Mr. Wiii1am Coaswetu. I desire to submit a point of order on 
the proviso just read. The ruling of the Chair upon a similar provi- 
sion, attached to the appropriation for the Light-House Establish- 
ment, was that it was not germane; that it changed existing law, and 
therefore was not inorder. I make the same point upon this proviso. 
The CuarrMaAn. The Chair sustains the point of order. 
Mr. CocswELu. I now move to amend so as to make the amount 
of this appropriation $145,000 instead of $120,000. This increase in 
the appropriation is made necessary by the fact that in the item as 
reported the estimate is cut down $15,000, and the ruling of the Chair 
striking out the proviso makes an additional reduction below the sum 
absolutely necessary, as the officers of the Museum contend, for the 
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