the institution has always resisted the tendency to keep up and increase this museum at the expense of this fund.

Recently the institution has given over to the Library of Congress a collection of fifty thousand volumes, constituting probably the most perfect scientific library in the world. But we are still charged as an institution with the cost of this rapidly-increasing museum. Now, the Regents would be glad if Congress would take this museum off their hands and provide otherwise for the care of it. It is a charge imposed upon the institution by law, a charge which it never sought and is not desirous to retain. At the time when this museum was first placed in the custody of the institution it cost but $4,000 a year to keep it in the Patent Office. Now the care of that museum costs three times that amount. I hope therefore that the committee will vote $10,000 instead of $4,000 for this purpose.

Mr. SPALDING. Mr. Chairman, I am very sorry to find the Smithsonian Institution among the leeches that are all the while crying to the Treasury of the United States, "Give, give!" The Smithsonian is a wealthy institution. The Government of the United States is continually paying it gold interest on the large fund belonging to the institution; but the institution is not willing to bear this little additional expense, as it is called, from its own means, but wishes to obtain the money from the public Treasury. The men who pay the taxes must contribute the additional sum to this wealthy institution.

Sir, we have loaned to that institution the National Museum. We have paid the institution for a series of years $4,000 annually in cash for taking care of that museum. The institution has been content with that sum heretofore; but now it comes in and asks an appropriation of $10,000 for this purpose. Sir, we had better take away the museum from the care of that institution. I had almost said we had better throw it into the Potomac than be constantly paying these increased demands from the Smithsonian Institution. That is the light in which the committee have viewed the subject; and in that light they protest against this increase.

The amendment was not agreed to.

March 2, 1869.-Joint resolution reappointing Louis Agassiz a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, passed.

FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

SENATE, January 18, 1870.

On motion of Mr. TRUMBULL, that the vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, caused by the death of Hon. W. P. Fessenden, be filled; the VicePresident appointed Mr. Hannibal Hamlin a regent.

March 30, 1870.-Annual report for 1869 presented, and ordered to be printed.

Mr. TRUMBULL offered a resolution to have additional copies printed.

July 13, 1870.-Mr. ANTHONY reported, from the Committee on Printing, the resolution of the House of Representatives to print 10,000 additional copies of the Smithsonian report, which was concurred in.

January 26, 1871.-Letter of resignation, as Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, from General Richard Delafield, read, as follows, and laid on the table:

WASHINGTON, D. C., January 25, 1871. SIR: The period of six years, for which I was appointed a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, under a joint resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives, expires in February.

I believe the welfare and the best interest of the institution may be subserved by tendering my resignation of this trust and responsibility at the present date, that the Board of Regents and Congress may have the neces sary time to appoint my successor and enable him to attend the annual meeting of the Board of Regents, now about to take place.

I have requested Hon. J. A. Garfield to present my resignation as a Regent to the board at its first meeting, and should the occasion require, request you will state the fact to the Senate of my having tendered my resignation for the reasons herein stated.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

RICHARD DElafield, Brigadier General U. S. A., (retired.)

Hon. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Vice-President of the U. S.,

Member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

January 27, 1871.-Mr. IIAMLIN offered the following resolution; which was adopted:

Resolved, &c., That General William T. Sherman be, and he is hereby, appointed a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, in the place of General Richard Delafield, resigned.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, February 2, 1870.

THE SPEAKER announced the appointment of the following Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: Mr. Luke P. Poland, Mr. James A. Garfield, Mr. Samuel S. Cox.

April 20, 1870.-The resolution by the Senate to print 13,000 additional copies of the report of the Smithsonian Institution was objected to.

June 7, 1870.-Mr. ASPER offered a resolution that 2,000 copies of the reports of the Smithsonian Institution for 1866, '67, '68 be printed from the stereotype plates. The following letter from Professor Henry, was read:

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, WASHINGTON, D. C., May 28, 1870. MY DEAR SIR: I have the honor, with your permission, to address you in relation to extra copies of the reports of this institution, for which the demand has of late years become so great that the number ordered by the House for its members has not been sufficient to supply more than half their constituents who desire them. During the last three years, and especially during the year just passed, so numerous have been the demands upon us for copies of reports that our stock is entirely exhausted. The report gives not only an account of the operations of the institution, but also, in an appendix, a series of translations which exhibit the progress of science in foreign countries. A copy is sent to each of the foreign correspondents of the establishment; to colleges, public libraries, and learned societies publishing transactions; to meteorological observers of the institution; to contributors of the material to the library or museum, and to persons engaged in teaching or in special scientific research, so far as the number of copies furnished to the institution will allow.

In view of these facts, I would respectfully suggest that there be struck off from the stereotype plates of the reports for 1866, 1867, and 1868, now in the hands of the Public Printer, 2,000 copies of each volume-1,000 for the use of the House and the other 1,000 for distribution by the institution. I have the honor to be, very truly, your obedient servant,

Hon. J. F. Asper,

U. S. House of Representatives.

JOSEPH HENRY,

Secretary Smithsonian Institution.

Referred to Committee on Printing.

July 12, 1870.-Mr. LAFLIN reported the following resolution from the Committee on Printing, which was adopted:

Resolved, &c., That 10,000 additional copies of the report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1869 be printed, 3,000 of which shall be for the use of the Senate, 4,000 for the use of the House, and 3,000 for the use of the Smithsonian Institution: Provided, That the aggregate number of pages of said report shall not exceed 450, and there shall be no illustrations except those furnished by the Smithsonian Institution.

December 12, 1870.-Mr. INGERSOLL offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That there be printed, from stereotyped plates now in possession of the Public Printer, 2,000 copies each of the reports of the Smithsonian Institution, for the years 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868; 1,000 of these to be for the use of the members of the House, and 1,000 for distribution by the Smithsonian Institution.

January 30, 1871.-On motion of Mr. POLAND, the House took up and passed the joint resolution appointing General William T. Sherman a Regent of the Smithsonian Institu tion, in the place of General Richard Delafield, resigned.

February 24, 1871.-The Clerk read as follows:

"For continuing the completion of the survey of the Colorado of the

West and its tributaries, by Professor Powell, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $12,000."

Mr. DAWES. I move to strike out the words "Secretary of the Interior," and insert "the Smithsonian Institution." The amendment was agreed to.

Mr. HAMLIN.

FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.

SENATE, March 13, 1871.

I ask unanimous consent of the Senate to introduce a bill, and I desire to have it considered at this time. I think it will not take two minutes.

By unanimous consent, leave was granted to introduce a bill to amend an act to establish the Smithsonian Institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men, approved August 10, 1846; and it was read twice, and considered as in Committee of the Whole.

The bill proposes to amend the act of August 10, 1846, by striking out in the first section the words "mayor of the city of Washington," and inserting "governor of the District of Columbia," and by making the same change in the third section of the act.

The following is the bill:

Be it enacted, &c., That "An act to establish the Smithsonian Institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men," approved August ten, eighteen hundred and forty-six, be, and the same is hereby, amended in section one of said act by striking out the words "the mayor of the city of Washington," and inserting in place thereof the words "the governor of the District of Columbia," and that said act be further amended in section three by striking out the words "the mayor of the city of Washington," and inserting in place thereof the words "the governor of the District of Columbia."

Mr. HAMLIN. Let me say to the Senate, in one word, what this bill means. The original act creating the institution made the mayor of the city of Washington one of its regents. We have abolished that office, and this bill simply puts the governor of the Territory in his place.

The bill passed.

April 19, 1871.-The concurrent resolution from the House of Representatives, of April 18, for the printing of 12,500 copies of the report of the Smithsonian Institution, for 1870, was agreed to.

April 26, 1872.-Annual report for 1871 laid before the Senate.

Mr. HAMLIN moved to have 12,500 extra copies of the report printed.

May 2, 1872.-Mr. ANTHONY, reported the following resolution; which was agreed to.

Resolved, By the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring,) that 12,500 additional copies of the report of the Smithsonian Institution, for the year 1871, be printed; 2,500 for the use of the Senate, 5,000 for the use of the House, and 5,000 for the use of the Smithsonian Institution: Provided, That the aggregate number of pages of said report shall not exceed 450; and that there shall be no illustrations, except those furnished by the Smithsonian Institution.

May 24, 1872.-Mr. ANTHONY, from the Committee on Printing, reported non-concurrence to the amendment of the House of Representatives to increase the number of extra copies of the report, for 1871, to 20,000. Agreed to.

May 29, 1872.-Mr. ANTHONY, from the Committee on Printing, reported back the following resolution of the House of Representatives, which was agreed to:

Resolved, &c., That 2,000 copies of each of the reports of the Smithsonian Institution of which the stereotype plates are now in the Congressional Printing Office be printed for distribution by the Smithsonian Institution to libraries, colleges, and public establishments.

December 10, 1872.-The VICE-PRESIDENT appointed Mr. J. W. Stevenson of Kentucky, a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, in the place of Mr. Garrett Davis, deceased.

February 21, 1873.-Annual report of the Smithsonian Institution, for 1872, presented.

February 28, 1873.-Mr. STEVENSON. I am authorized by the Committee on Appropriations to offer a small amendment on page 27, line six hundred and fifty-eight, to strike out "fifteen," and insert "twenty." The clause now reads:

For preservation of the collections of the surveying and exploring expe ditions of the Government, $15,000.

This increase is asked for in order to enable the institution to arrange and exhibit the geological collections lately transferred from the Land Office, and to make out duplicate specimens in sets for distributing to colleges and institutions throughout the United States. Professor Baird, in a letter before me, says that he made this estimate of $15,000, which is the usual estimate, before the transfer was made from the Land Office of all these specimens, and the additional ap propriation is required to prepare for the large increase of these specimens, and also to prepare duplicates for distribution. The amendment simply proposes an appropriation of $20,000, instead of $15,000. I hope the Senate will agree to it.