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from Pennsylvania [Mr. Bingham] that this appropriation of $12,000 is 
quite a reasonable one. My friend must bear in mind that we are deal- 
ing now with a state of things the like of~which has not existed in this 
country for many years; we have not got the money in sufficient quan- 
tity to justify a larger appropriation. That is the only answer I have 
to make. 
The amendment of Mr. Bingham was rejected. 
The Clerk read: 
North American Ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among the 
American Indians, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including sal- 
aries or compensation of all necessary employes, $35,000. 
Mr. C. L. Mosrs. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike out the paragraph 
which has just been read, and I ask the members of the House to read 
for themselves that paragraph, which proposes to appropriate $35,000 
‘*for continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians.” 
I move, sir, to strike the paragraph from'the bill, because I know that 
if the people, not only of my district, but of the entire country, were 
here to-day, they would vote ten to one that they were not willing to 
tax themselves $35,000 per annum to hold inquests over the bones of 
Indians who died before Columbus landed on the shores of America. 
I understand that we have already appropriated, or squandered, about 
$150,000 for these ‘* researches.” 
Let us respect the will of the people who sent us here, and vote 
down such appropriations. 1 suppose that the gentleman from Maine 
[Mr. Reed] or ‘‘the scholar in politics” from Massachusetts [Mr. 
Lodge] will demand of us, according to their custom, a better reason 
why this appropriation should be stricken out. They seem to assume 
that the House is responsible to them and not to the people. 
The distinguished gentleman from Harvard University will doubt- 
less again charge that we are opposed to education because we are 
opposed to voting such appropriations as this. On last Thursday, 
when the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Bailey] moved to strike out the 
appropriation of $29,000 to maintain a zoological park for the benefit 
of the people of Washington, he raised his hands in holy horror, and 
said that such speeches showed that there were some sections of the 
country where the cause of education needed promotion. If that is the 
way we are to educate our people, why not take your bears and your 
elephants and put them in the hands of Barnum or Bailey and send 
them all over the country so that the people of the entire country may 
receive the benefits of your glorious ‘‘ education?” 
Mr. Chairman, we are told that we should not strike out hess **beg- 
garly” sums. That is the cry upon every item. Take the value of 
the entire wheat crop of the North and the cotton crop of the South, 
and you will still lack $100,000,000 to pay the aggregate of these ‘* beg- 
garly sems.” You spend $16 per capita of population. Georgia’s 
