1648 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
‘*five;” and in line 48 strike out the word ‘‘five” and add the word 
“Sone,” so as to read: 
Of the report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 8,000 copies—2,000 for the Senate, 
5,000 for the House, and 1,000 for distribution by the Bureau of Ethnology. 
I think that will cure the evil complained of. 
Mr. BetrzHoover. That proposition being voted on first, if it is 
adopted, I will withdraw my amendment. 
Mr. Smpson. I think that will cure the evil the gentleman complains 
of, of giving so large a proportion to the Bureau. I agree entirely 
with the gentleman from Pennsylvania [ Mr. Beltzhoover | that this is 
a very valuable book, which ought to go out to the people. There is 
a large demand for it in my country. Perhaps in the district of the 
gentleman from Missouri [ Mr. Hall] they will consider it, like him, 
stuff and rot, but in my country and in the gentleman’s State I am 
satisfied that there is a large demand for the book. 
Mr. Jonn A. PickierR. Does the gentleman know whether 1,000 
copies will be sufficient for the Bureau to enable them to make the 
exchanges that they make with the various nations of the earth? 
Mr. Suvpson. I should think it would be plenty. 
Mr. Pickier. I would not want to cut them below what they ought 
to have for making these exchanges. 
Mr. Smeson. That will be a sufficient number. 
Mr. Joun S. Wreiiams. Mr. Chairman, I am of the opinion, gener- 
ally speaking, that the less members of Congress and Senators have to 
do with anything in this Government, outside of the duties of legisla- 
tion, the better for them and for the people. 
There is a great deal of selfishness in everything, and I understand 
that; and I have it to as large an extent as the average member of the ~ 
body of which I am a member. I understand perfectly the feeling 
upon the part of a member of Congress that he is the proper party to 
distribute documents; but it is a mistaken feeling, and I think the 
sooner we go back to the idea that these documents are published for 
the purpose of disseminating useful information among the people and - 
not for the purpose of being used by us in order to advance our own 
political fortunes the better for the United States, and, in the long 
run, the better for us. 
Mr. Jounn Davis. But who knows better the people of the various 
districts than the Representatives from those districts ? 
Mr. Wriu1ams. Ah, Mr. Chairman, no man knows the people of the 
Fifth district of Mississippi better than I do, and nobody knows 
better where a public document will aid in my reelection than I do. 
Mr. Witu1am H. Doorrrrir. Do you not want to be reelected ? 
Mr. Wittrams. Now, Mr. Chairman, the people can get these docu- 
ments just as well through the Departments; and the Departments, 
as we all know, will take above all things else a list from a mem- 
