NOTE.-The amount appropriated by Congress for repairs to the Holt mansion was expended before the roof was covered in, and upon the decision of the Comptroller that it could not be covered in from the item for "expenditures not otherwise provided for" the Smithsonian Institution advanced this sum from its private funds to prevent the destruction by the weather of what had already been done.

For amount necessary to pay the bill of V. Baldwin Johnson for coal furnished by him for the National Zoological Park, the certificate of inspection required by section 3811, Revised Statutes, being hereby waived, $4.75.

NOTE. This coal was delivered without being weighed and inspected by a bonded inspector. This was done through the ignorance of the dealer, and it was impossible to afterwards rectify the error, as the coal was consumed. It was weighed and inspected by the officers of the Park, and the account is known to be correct and just in all respects except in that of fulfilling the technical condition of being verified by a bonded inspector.

December 3, 1894-House.

Estimates for 1896.

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; care, subsistence, transportation, and purchase of animals, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $75,000. January 28, 1895-House.

Deficiency estimates for 1895, etc.

For repairs to the Holt mansion to make the same suitable for occupancy, and for office furniture:

NOTE.-When the above liabilities were incurred it was supposed that they could be properly paid from the item for "miscellaneous expenditures." The property has been actually in use in the public service for three years past.

To reimburse the Smithsonian fund for assuming the expenses of labor and materials for repairs urgently necessary for the preservation of the Holt mansion, including the following:

C. Burlew, concreting and pitching...

Belt & Dyer, doors and moldings..

$60.48

37.11

NOTE.-The amount appropriated by Congress for repairs to the Holt mansion was expended before the roof was covered in, and upon the decision of the Comptroller that it could not be covered in from the item for "expenditures not otherwise provided for" the Smithsonian Institution advanced this sum from its private funds to prevent the destruction by the weather of what had already been done.

NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK-APPROPRIATIONS.

February 3, 1894-House.

Mr. JOSEPH D. SAYERS, from Committee on Appropriations, submitted report (H. 348) on H. 5575 (sundry civil bill for 1895), which contained the following item:

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, $50,000; 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; and hereafter 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.

(Stat., XXVIII, 383.)

August 23, 1894.

Deficiency act for 1894, etc.

For amount necessary to pay the bill of V. Baldwin Johnson for coal furnished by him for the National Zoological Park, the certificate of inspection required by section 3711, Revised Statutes, being hereby waived, $4.75.

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; for continuing the entrance into the Zoological Park from Woodley lane, and opening driveway into Zoological Park, from said entrance along the west bank of Rock Creek, $5,000, to be immediately available, which sum is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, one-half chargeable to the revenues of the District of Columbia. 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.

(Stat., XXVIII, 924.)

ACT PROVIDING FOR PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.

January 12, 1895.

The act for printing and distributing public documents provided that there should be for the Smithsonian Institution:

For foreign exchanges: House documents and reports, bound, 50 copies; Senate documents and reports, bound, 50 copies.

(Stat., XXVIII, 608.)

SEC. 58. Whenever printing not bearing a Congressional number shall be done for any department or officer of the Government, except confidential matter, blank forms, and circular letters not of a public character, or shall be done for use of Congressional committees, not of a confidential character, two copies shall be sent, unless withheld by order of the committee, by the Public Printer to the Senate and House libraries, respectively, and one copy each to the document rooms of the Senate and House, for reference; and these copies shall not be removed; and of all publications of the Executive Departments not intended for their especial use, but made for distribution, 500 copies shall be at once delivered to the superintendent of documents for distribution to designated depositories and State and Territorial libraries.

(Stat., XXVIII, 610.)

Bureau of Ethnology Report, 3,500 copies for the Bureau.

(Stat., XVIII, 613.)

Statutes at Large "of the present and each future session of Congress," pamphlet, 5 copies.

Statutes at Large, bound, 2 copies.

(Stat., XXVIII, 615.)

American Historical Association Report, for distribution by Association and Smithsonian Institution, 1,500 copies.

Smithsonian Institution and Museum Report, 7,000 copies, 2,000 of which for the Museum.

(Stat., XXVIII, 616.)

Congressional Record, bound, 2 copies; 1 for Museum.

(Stat., XXVIII, 618.)

Official Register, 4 copies.

(Stat., XXVIII, 619.)

No document or report to be illustrated or accompanied by maps shall be printed by the Public Printer until the illustrations or maps designed therefor shall be ready for publication; and no order for public printing shall be acted upon by the Public Printer after the expiration of one year, unless the entire copy and illustrations for the work shall have been furnished within that period: Provided, This section shall not apply to orders heretofore made for the printing of a series of volumes on one subject.

(Stat., XXVIII, 621.)

SEC. 90. The heads of Executive Departments, and such executive officers as are not connected with the departments, respectively, shall cause daily examination of the Congressional Record for the purpose of noting documents, reports, and other publications of interest to their departments, and shall cause an immediate order to be sent to the Public Printer for the number of copies of such publications required for official use, not to exceed, however, the number of bureaus in the department and divisions in the office of the head thereof. The Public Printer shall send to each executive department and to each executive office not connected with the departments, as soon as printed, five copies of all bills and resolutions, except the State Department, to which shall be sent ten copies of bills and resolutions. When the head of a department desires a greater number of any class of bills or resolutions for official use they shall be furnished by the Public Printer on requisition promptly made.

SEC. 94. No head of any executive department, or of any bureau, branch, or office of the Government, shall cause to be printed, nor shall the Public Printer print, any document or matter except that which is authorized by law and necessary to the public business; and executive officers, before transmitting their annual reports, shall carefully examine the same and all accompanying documents, and exclude therefrom all matter, including engravings, maps, drawings, and illustrations, except such as they shall certify in their letters transmitting such reports are necessary and relate entirely to the transaction of the public business.

(Stat., XXVIII, 623.)

SEC. 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 connect with the roads now in existence, including a bridge across Rock Creek.

Mr. S. S. 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. SAYERS. 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. SAYERS. 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. WILLIAM P. HEPBURN. 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. HEPBURN. I find that, in round numbers, the various paraH. Doc. 732—107