1602 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
safe-keeping of the valuable collections already there. I hope the 
amendment will be adopted. 
Mr. Homan and others. Vote! Vote! 
The question being taken, the amendment was rejected. 
The Clerk read as follows: 
For cases, fufniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safe- 
keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensa- 
tion of all necessary employees, $10,000. 
Mr. CocgswELu. I move to amend so as to make the amount of 
this appropriation $25,000 instead of $10,000. [Cries of ‘‘ Vote!” 
“Vote!”] | 
The question being taken, the amendment was rejected. 
The Clerk read as follows: 
For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service for 
the National Museum, $10,000. 
Mr. CogswELu. I move to amend by striking out ‘*$10,000” and 
inserting ‘‘$12,000.” I read a note in regard to this matter from the 
Book of Estimates: 
This is a provision for the heating and lighting of this Institution. It is necessary 
to keep the buildings at nearly a uniform temperature throughout the twenty-four 
hours. Unless this course is followed, as stated last year, the safety of the collec- 
tions will be endangered. Should the winter prove severe, unless the entire amount 
asked for is appropriated a deficiency estimate will be found necessary. 
Now, this is a small matter upon which the estimate can be easily 
and correctly made. The last bill carried $12,000 for this purpose; 
that appropriation’ was used because it was found necessary. In this 
bill we have a cut of $2,000 in the matter of the coal bill and gas bill 
of this Institution. I hope the amendment will prevail. 
Mr. H. H. Brncuam. Mr. Chairman, I am in receipt of a communica- 
tion from Professor Langley on this very point, and I think it empha- 
sizes the remarks just made by the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. 
Cogswell]. Professor Langley, whose judgment is, of course, entitled 
to great weight, writes on this subject as a practical every-day question, 
and says: 
The amount under this head in the Book of Estimates is $12,000; in the sundry 
civil bill it is reduced to $10,000. With the latter amount it will be impossible to 
heat and light the buildings properly during the coming year. With the most 
stringent economy, the sum of $12,000 has been found inadequate during the present 
year, and on several occasions some of the employees have been unable to work in 
their rooms. The number of firemen now employed is four, which is less than it 
should be for the most efficient management of the heating apparatus; and, with a 
smaller amount of coal, it will be impossible, as has already been stated, to heat the 
buildings to a proper temperature. 
If it is the purpose of the committee to make appropriations for the 
conduct of this Institution, they can cut as much as they see proper 
