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to year, and there can not be stored away any of these reports which 
have not yet been printed. 
Mr. Buack. I am not referring especially to the reports for this 
year, but I say, have we not stored away copies of like reports? 
Mr. Ricuarpson. It may be that some such are stored away. 
Mr. Brack. Is it not true that we have been called upon to provide a 
storehouse for these documents? * Has not the Government been called 
on to rent various places for the storage of documents of this kind? 
Mr. Ricuarpson. Yes, sir; that is true. 
. Mr. Bruack. Now, I would like to ask the gentleman, what is the 
necessity for our printing these documents when it has been demon- 
strated by actual experience that nobody wants them; that nobody 
will take them? 
Mr. Ricuarpson. I think the gentleman assumes a little too much 
when he says that ‘‘nobody” wants them. Because of the fact that 
we find here occasionally a number of members, two or three or a 
half dozen, who do not want them, and thereby these works accumu- 
late, that does not represent the whole number by any means. We 
take the publications as a. rule, and are glad to get them and send 
them out. I would like to have more of them myself. We send all 
out that we can get. There will be no accumulation of these, I am 
satisfied. 
Mr. Chairman, these publications mentioned in the paragraph of 
the bill we are now considering are the annual publications of the Goy- 
- ernment, and I beg the attention of the committee to this fact: That we 
have reduced every one of them, I believe, without exception, largely. 
Take the one that has just been read—the report of the Bureau of 
Ethnology. There is a reduction by this bill in that publication of 
7,500 copies. They cost about $2.25 a copy, as nearas I can get at it; 
at all events, a little over $2. So that in this one publication, by the 
amendment of the committee in reporting this bill, we have saved 
15,000 a year to the Government, and therefore it seems to me it 
ought to be passed without objection. 
Mr. Buackx. Ought it to pass if we can save $10,000 more? 
Mr. Ricwarpson. I think we have reduced the number as low as pos- 
sible with safety to the Government. We called the superintendent 
of the Bureau before us, and he testified that this number of copies that 
we left in the bill is absolutely necessary for distribution. 
Mr. Brack. Let me ask the gentleman further, do you think that 
the provision for 3,000 copies of the report of the Bureau of Ethnol- 
ogy for the use of the House is absolutely essential ? 
Mr. Ricuarpson. I thinkso. I think itis avery good and important 
publication. It is a valuable work certainly; a very valuable one to 
many members from sections where there are scientific schools or estab- 
