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Tellers were ordered; and the Chairman appointed Mr. CocswEeLi 
and Mr. Houtman. 
The committee again divided; and the tellers reported—ayes 14, 
noes 163. 
So the amendment was rejected. 
Mr. Battery. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out the whole para- 
graph beginning with line 9 and ending with line 12. I suppose it is 
useless to ask the House to strike out this paragraph, inasmuch as they 
have just refused to strike out the preceding one, but I desire to 
remind Democrats who were in the last Congress that nearly all of 
them voted then against establishing this park, yet to-day they are 
refusing to strike out this appropriation for its maintenance. I submit 
to my friend from Georgia [Mr. Livingston] that it is precisely like 
voting to tax his constituents and mine to establish a bear garden in 
the District of Columbia. 
Mr. L. F. Livrneston. I am with the gentleman entirely. 
Mr. Barer. I know you are, and lam glad that it is so. ButI 
want to ask the Democrats of this House how they can justify them- 
selves to their constituents for having voted away. the public money 
for such an improper and indefensible object of expenditure as this? 
Mr. Chairman, so long as we continue this kind of legislation, just so 
long will the distinguished gentleman from Maine and his associates 
be justified in standing here and deriding our professions of economy. 
I am one of those who believe that when you make a declaration you 
ought to live up to it like men or publicly retract it; and if you fail to 
do that here, the people will compel you when you go home to answer 
them why in your resolution you pronounce in favor of economy while 
by your votes you sustain extravagant appropriations. If Democrats 
here believe that the Federal Government can not only go a distance 
of 2,000 miles and establish the great Yellowstone Park as a pleasure 
resort for the people of the Old World and the wealthy people of this, 
and spend $75,000 a year on it, producing scandals in the administration 
of the Government, but also can come to the District of Columbia and 
take the people’s money, a sacred trust fund, and devote it to such uses 
as this, then, indeed, we have passed the line that separates our private 
pleasures from our public affairs. 
Mr. Hotman. Just a single word, Mr. Chairman. The Committee 
on Appropriations recommended these items of appropriation purely, 
I think, upon the ground that the law of the last Congress had pro- 
vided for these expenditures 
Mr. Barney. Will the gentleman permit me to ask him a question? 
Mr. Hoiman. Yes, sir. 
Mr. Battery. If i animals that are out in this park atone to the 
people of the country, and if the case is put on that ground, then I say 
if you submit the question to the people, ninety-nine out of a hundred 
