FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS, 1891-1893. 1615 
It has been urged that the entire exchange appropriation be included in one item, 
instead of being contained in different bills, and that a provision be made for carry- 
ing out a second treaty, proclaimed by the President of the United States on January 
15, 1889, for the immediate exchange of Official Journals, ete., for which no appro- 
priation has yet been made, and for which purpose it is estimated that $2,000 would 
be sufficient. The estimate submitted therefore for the year 1891-92 was $23,000, 
omitting the increase in freight facilities desired. The sundry civil bill (H. 7520), 
now reported, allows $12,000. With this sum it is evident that the exchange serv- 
ice can not bé carried on even in its present limited scope, and it should also be 
remembered that the expense is far below what would be required for the independ- 
ent conduct of such a service, not only on account of the freight privilege, but 
because the experience and facilities of the Institution, perhaps the most extensive 
in the world, are given together with the service of its officials without charge, and 
also because the exchange offices occupy a very considerable portion of the Smith- 
sonian building, without consideration of rent, heating, lighting, etc. Not only has 
no profit accrued to the Institution for that portion of the service which has been for 
the exchange of purely Government publications, such as the Congressional Record, 
and which is not connected with its scientific work, but it has in past years advanced 
from its private funds the sum of $45,175.82 for such Government exchanges for 
which it has never been reimbursed. ] Oy 
The sundry civil bill now reported allows $12,000. 
I do not know, sir, whether this committee, in its judgment and con- 
clusion upon this bill, is antagonistic to all the scientific works that 
the Government in the past has determined to aid, assist, and advance; 
but from the conclusion you have reached when you have struck 
$71,000 from the appropriation for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, 
_ when you have struck upwards of $200,000 from the Geological Sur- 
vey, when you have struck radically at the Fish Commission, also 
light-houses and beacons, and when you now strike at this other scien- 
tific Institution which the Government has been aiding for a genera- 
tion, the Smithsonian Institution, it does seem to me that it is well for 
the scientific world to know that you have no sympathy with those . 
scientific labors which the Government has been wisely aiding for 
many years, built up and developed to the highest conditions of effi- 
ciency and usefulness. 
We hear a great deal in this House about the agricultural sections 
of the country. The agriculturists of this country know that the 
highest and safest growth and development of agriculture goes hand in 
hand with science; science always leading, and agriculture following, 
reaping benefit and wealth. Let it be known, then, that in this Dem- 
ocratic House of Representatives consideration of the Smithsonian 
Institution as in the consideration of coordinate questions of science 
connected with the Government, this bill radically, almost from the 
root up, has destroyed and weakened the proper administration of not 
only one but all of these scientific bureaus of the Government. 
The CuarrMan. The question is on the amendment of the gentleman 
from Pennsylvania [Mr. Bingham]. 
Mr. W.S. Horman. Mr. Chairman, I only wish to say to my friend 
