A congressional or a national library.

Discusses the appearance of seven members of the American Library Association before the joint committee on the Library of Congress in Washington. Passage of a bill containing appropriations available up to the end of June 1897; Recommendations for librarians' salaries and book appropriations; The Congressional Library as a white elephant on the hands of Congress; Why it should be a National Library; More; Reprinted from `Library Journal,' January 1897.