FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS, 1891-1893. 16138 
The question was taken; and on a division there were—ayes 48, 
noes 88. 
So the amendment was rejected. 
The Clerk read: 
For care, subsistence, and transportation of animals for the National Zoological 
Park, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and general 
incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $10,000; in all, $29,000, one-half of 
_which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other 
half from the Treasury of the United States; and hereafter all estimates for the 
National Zoological Park shall, each year, be submitted in the annual estimates for 
the expenses of the Government of the District of Columbia. 
Mr. Coeswetu. I move to strike out, in line 16, ‘‘$10,000” and 
insert ‘‘ $17,500.” 
The question was taken; and on a division there were—ayes 30, 
noes 141. 
Mr. Cogswetu. I demand tellers. 
Tellers were not ordered, there being 27 members only voting in 
favor thereof. 
So the amendment was rejected. 
May 16, 1892—House. 
The House resolved itself into Committee of the Whole for the pur- 
pose of further considering the sundry civil bill for 1893, with Mr. 
R. E. Lester in the chair. 
The CuatrMan. The House is in Committee of the Whole House on 
the state of the Union, and the clerk will read the next paragraph. 
The clerk read: 
International exchanges: For expenses of the system of international exchanges 
between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smith- 
sonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, 
$12,000. 
Mr. H. H. Brncuam. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment to that 
clause. 
The Clerk read: 
On page 25, line 7, strike out ‘‘twelve thousand’’ and insert ‘‘seventeen thou- 
sand.’’ 
Mr. BrneHam. On that, Mr. Chairman, I desire to say a few words. 
In the discussion of this bill I have no desire in any way to retard 
or delay its consideration and passage; but having been a member of 
the subcommittee, and having listened daily for almost a month to 
hearings on the part of the heads of the various bureaus of the Goy- 
ernment, with no disposition to delay, I feel it is due, that the Com- 
mittee on Appropriations having fully considered these items, the 
Committee of the Whole should also have some knowledge upon them, 
and if you see proper to reduce or adhere to the reduction recom- 
mended in the bill, I, of course, can enter no demurrer. 
