1812 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
sonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary 
employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, 
$24,000. 
(Stat., XXX, 1085.) 
Geological Survey: For the purchase of necessary books for the 
library, and the payment for the transmission of public documents 
through the Smithsonian exchange, $2,000. 
(Stat., XXX, 1099.) 
War Department: For the transportation of reports and maps to 
foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, $100. 
(Stat., XXX, 1108.) 
Deficiency act for 1899, ete. 
Geological Survey: For the payment of the transmission of public 
documents through the Smithsonian exchange, 1898 and 1899, $2,997.75. 
(Stat., XXX, 1233.) 
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY—ESTIMATES., 
December 6, 1897—House. 
Estimates for 1899. 
For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians, 
under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries 
or compensation of all necessary employees, of which sum not exceed- 
ing $1,000 may be used for rent of building, $50,000. 
Norre.—An increase of $5,000 is asked in the appropriation for American Ethnol- 
ogy, to permit of the inquiries regarding the American Indians being conducted on 
more adequate basis than has been possible heretofore. The reason for increased 
activity in this respect is that the public domain is being rapidly opened up to settle- 
ment and the Indians are being restricted more and more to reservations, where they 
quickly lose their aboriginal arts, abandon their primitive institutions, adopt a new 
belief, and soon forget their native language. It is considered especially desirable 
that investigations should be extended to as many tribes as possible before they are 
thus modified and their aboriginal characteristics have disappeared. 
December 5, 1898—House. 
Estimates for 1900. 
For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians, 
including the aborigines of the Antillean islands, and among the abo- 
rigines of the Hawaiian, Philippine, and Ladrone islands, under the 
direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or com- 
pensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of necessary 
books and periodicals, $65,000, of which sum not exceeding $1,000 
may be used for rent of building, $65,000. 
Note.—The annexation by the United States of the Hawaiian Islands and the 
prospective acquisition, as a result of the Spanish-American war, of other islands in 
the Pacific Ocean and among the Antilles, enlarge the field of activities belonging 
to this Bureau, and it is considered important, from both a practical and scientific 
