ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN. 



FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1920. 



Congress of the United States, 



Joint Committee on the Library, 



Washington,!). C. 

 The committee met in the committee room, Capitol, at 10 o'clock 

 a. m. Senator Frank B. Brandegee presiding. 



Present: Senators Brandegee (chairman) and Williams and Rep- 

 resentatives Gould, Fess, Luce, Johnson of Kentucky, and Pell. 

 Also present : Senator Knox. 



The committee had under consideration the following bill and reso- 

 lution. 



[S. 497, Sixty-sixth Congress, first session.] 



A BILL To increase the area of the United States Botanic Garden in the city of Wash- 

 ington, District of Columbia. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United\ 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That the United States Botanic Gar- 

 den, situated in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, be, and the same 

 is hereby, increased and enlarged by attaching thereto those two certain parcels 

 of land situated, lying, and being between Third Street on the east and Sixth 

 Street on the west, and Missouri Avenue on the north and Maine Avenue on the 

 south, which said parcels are known as East Seaton Park and West Seaton 

 Park. 



Sec. 2. That said two described parcels shall upon the passage of this act be- 

 come part and parcel of the said United States Botanic Garden and immediately 

 available for the purposes thereof. 



Sec. 3. That all laws and parts of law inconsistent with any of the provisions 

 of this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. 



[S. Res. 165, Sixty-sixth Congress, first session.] 



Resolved, That the Committee on the District of Columbia be, and it is hereby, 

 directed to consider and report to the Senate plans for the location and develop- 

 ment, in or near the District of Columbia, of a botanic garden of a size and ex- 

 cellence comparable with the best existing botanic gardens. 



For the purpose of preparing such plans the committee may secure the services 

 of such experts as may be necessary for a proper consideration of the subject. 

 The expenses of such investigation, not exceeding $3,000, shall be paid from the 

 contingent fund of the Senate. 



The Chairman. The committee has under consideration this morn- 

 ing Senate resolution 165, introduced by Senator Phelan, directing 

 the Committee on the District of Columbia of the Senate to consider 

 and report to the Senate plans for the location and development, in 

 or near the District of Columbia, of a botanic garden of a size and 

 excellence comparable with the best existing botanic gardens. 



It also has under consideration Senate bill 497, introduced by 

 Senator Moses, to increase the area of the United States Botanic 

 Garden in the city of Washington, D. C. 



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