act, all or any part of the real estate in the District of Columbia for benefits resulting from the location and improvement of the said Rock Creek Park. Referred to Committee on the District of Columbia.

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES-ESTIMATES.

December 6, 1897-House.

Estimates for 1899.

For the expenses of the system of International Exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, $24,000.

NOTE.-An addition of $5,000 to the current appropriation of $19,000 for International Exchanges is requested in order to meet the new demands made upon the Institution for the forwarding of documents, to improve the facilities for the prompt delivery of important packages, and to provide for the establishment of two new agencies in Europe. During the fiscal year 1896–97 there was an increase over the previous year of over 40 per cent in the weight of shipments, chiefly of Government publications, or from 126 tons in 1896 to 180 tons in 1897, and it is anticipated that further increases will occur during the present and the next fiscal years. It is still necessary to depend mainly upon the cheaper and therefore slower lines of steamers for the forwarding of packages, greatly to the dissatisfaction of both senders and recipients, and it is hoped that means will be provided for improving the service in this particular.

Up to the present time all business with Germany, Austria, and Hungary, as well as with the States of southeastern Europe, has been conducted through a single agency long established in Leipzig. The extent of the sendings to those countries has so increased, however, as to render a continuance of this arrangement impracticable, and negotiations are now in progress looking to the establishment of separate agencies in Vienna and Budapest, to which all shipments to the countries of which they are the capitals will hereafter be made direct. The maintenance of these two agencies will involve an additional expenditure.

Patent Office: Foreign exchanges, and transporting patents and other publications, $2,000.

NOTE. By the act of July 31, 1886, the appropriations for the scientific library and for expense of transporting publications of patents to foreign governments were consolidated. Prior to this $3,000 was appropriated for the library and $2,000 for transportation expenses, but under this act only $3,000 was appropriated for both purposes. The appropriation for each should be distinct and separate. The Patent Office is frequently compelled to decline valuable foreign exchanges because of insufficient appropriation to pay transportation. Many of these foreign publications would be of great value in the examination of pending applications. December 5, 1898-House.

Estimates for 1900.

For the expenses of the system of International Exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $24,000.

NOTE. The estimate for this service is the same as was submitted a year ago. An increase in the appropriation from $19,000 to $21,000 was granted by Congress at H. Doc. 732—114

the last session in order to meet the additional expense occasioned by the increase in the amount of exchanges handled and by the establishment of agencies at Vienna and Budapest. It is still desired to improve the quality of the ocean service by turning more of the business of forwarding over to the lines of faster steamers, and it is considered that the benefits to be derived from the more prompt interchange of publications will fully warrant the extra cost involved.

June 4, 1897.

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES-APPROPRIATIONS.

Sundry civil act for 1898.

For expenses of the system of International Exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, $19,000.

(Stat., XXX, 22.)

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, 37.)

War Department: For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, $100.

(Stat., XXX, 49.)

July 19, 1897.

Deficiency act for 1897, etc.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "International exchanges, Smithsonian Institution," for the fiscal year 1896, $1.79.

(Stat., XXX, 115.)

Geological Survey: For the payment for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, $2,230.60.

(Stat., XXX, 127.)

January 28, 1898.

Urgent deficiency act for 1898, etc.

Geological Survey: For the payment for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, $2,319.25.

(Stat., XXX, 239.)

March 15, 1898.

Legislative, executive, and judicial act for 1899.

Library of Congress: For expenses of exchanging public documents for the publications of foreign governments, $1,500.

(Stat., XXX, 284.)

Naval Observatory: For repairs [etc.], freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage, and expressage [etc.], $2,500.

(Stat., XXX, 303.)

Patent Office: For purchase of professional and scientific books and

expenses of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments, $2,000.

For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $21,000.

(Stat., XXX, 608.)

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, 622.)

War Department: For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, $100.

For expenses of exchanging public documents for the publications of foreign governments, $1,680.

(Stat., XXX, 854.)

Naval Observatory: For repairs [etc.], freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage, and expressage [etc.], $2,500.

(Stat., XXX, 876.)

Patent Office: For purchase of professional and scientific books and expenses of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments, $2,000.

(Stat., XXX, 880.)

February 27, 1899-House.

Sundry civil bill for 1900 under consideration.

The next amendment from the Committee on Appropriations was to increase the appropriation for expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, etc., from $21,000 to $24,000. Agreed to.

March 3, 1899.

Sundry civil act for 1900.

For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smith

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, etc.

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 exceeding $1,000 may be used for rent of building, 850,000.

NOTE.-An increase of $5,000 is asked in the appropriation for American Ethnology, 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 settlement 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 aborigines of the Hawaiian, Philippine, and Ladrone islands, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation 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

standpoint, that its operations should be extended to the new territory as early as possible in the next fiscal year. The inquiries which the Bureau is prepared to undertake are such as would aid materially in solving the problems which the Government will have to meet in extending its control over the native populations recently brought or soon to come under its jurisdiction. In order to provide for the proposed extension of the work, including the expenses of field parties and their equipment, an increase of $15,000 in the amount of the appropriation is requested.

BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY-APPROPRIATIONS.

June 4, 1897.

Sundry civil act for 1898.

For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, $45,000, of which sum not exceeding $1,000 may be used for rent of building.

(Stat., XXX, 22.)

July 1, 1898.

Sundry civil act 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, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $50,000, of which sum not exceeding $1,000 may be used for rent of building.

(Stat., XXX, 608.)

July 7, 1898.

Deficiency act for 1898, etc.

For payment of the outstanding accounts incurred during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897, under the appropriation "North American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution," and which are set forth on page 5 of House Document No. 319, of this session, $466.50.

(Stat., XXX, 662.)

March 3, 1899.

Sundry civil act for 1900.

For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $50,000, of which sum not exceeding $1,000 may be used for rent of building.

(Stat., XXX, 1086.)

REPORT ON EXPENDITURES.

December 7, 1897-House.

A letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting a detailed statement of the expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897, under the appropriations for "North American