FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, 1893-1895. 1697 
Src. 95. Heads of departments are authorized to exchange surplus 
documents for such other documents and books as may be required by 
them, when the same can be done to the advantage of the public service. 
(Stat., XXVIII, 623.) 
APPROPRIATIONS—DEBATED. 
January 23, 1895—House. 
The sundry civil bill for 1896 being under consideration, the Clerk 
read: 
National Zoological Park: For continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, 
water supply, sewerage, and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise 
improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures for animals; 
and for administrative purposes, care, subsistence, and transportation of animals, 
including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and general incidental 
expenses not otherwise provided for, $55,000, 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; a report in detail of the expenses on account of the National 
Zoological Park shall be made to Congress at the beginning of each regular session. 
And of the sum hereby appropriated $5,000 shall be used toward the construction of 
a road from the Holt Mansion entrance (on Adams Mill road) into the park to con- 
nect with the roads now in existence, including a bridge across Rock Creek. 
Mr. 8. 8S. Cox. I should like very much to have an explanation from 
the chairman of the committee as to that clause which reads as follows: 
And of the sum hereby appropriated $5,000 shall be used toward the construction 
of a road from the Holt Mansion entrance (on Adams Mill road) into the park to 
connect with the roads now in existence, including a bridge across Rock Creek. 
Mr. J. D. Saymrs. I will say, in answer to the gentleman, that the 
provision was put in in order to enable persons visiting the Zoological 
Park to have ingress by another road, the Connecticut avenue road, 
and not be confined to a single one. This gives the people two 
entrances and avenues instead of one. 
Mr. Cox. Who gets the benefit of that provision ? 
Mr. Sayrers. The people of Washington. Nobody else gets it except 
the people of Washington and the people who come here, visitors to 
the park, and one-half of the amount is payable out of the District 
revenues. 
The Clerk read: 
North American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among the 
American Indians, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including 
salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, $40,000, of which sum not 
exceeding $1,000 may be used for rent of building. 
Mr. Wiriu1am P. Herpurn. Mr. Chairman, I should like to ask the 
chairman of the committee if he can state what the total appropriations 
are for the Smithsonian Institution which are carried by this bill? 
Mr. Sayers. In a moment. 
Mr. Hepsurn. I find that, in round numbers, the various para- 
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