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honorable Chairman this evening as to the bearing of the 

 " Original Package " decision. Whilst submitting grace- 

 fully and peacefully to the will of the majority, we° cannot 

 forget that all power not given to the Federal Government 

 was reserved to the States in that compact, and that any 

 other power which arrogates to itself the right to en- 

 act police and sanitary regulations violates the^spirit and 

 the letter of that compact. But there is another idea 

 conveyed to our mind. When we speak of Missouri, 

 we immediately think of this broad expanse of territory, 

 greater in area than any State east of the Mississippi, 

 fertile and diversified in resources, and a State which 

 yields annually its quota towards the wealth of this Na- 

 tion. A State which, during the year now ending, will 

 contribute over ten millions of dollars to the mineral 

 wealth of the country, to say nothing of its agricultural 

 product. A State whose timber interests are second to 

 none; and, in that direction, that great public benefactor 

 whose memory we meet here to honor this evening 

 has conferred upon this State a lasting benefit. He has 

 given us the means and pointed out to us the way in which 

 we can utilize these great gifts of Nature. But higher and 

 greater than all these, when we speak of Missouri, i^another 

 feature, and that is the citizens that create and compose the 

 commonwealth. Those who make it what it is, those who 

 develop its resources, gnard its honor, enhance its enlight- 

 enment, augment its glory, promote its progress, make its 

 history ; and, among those citizens, we are proud to claim 

 Henry Shaw. The gentlemen who have spoken here this 

 evening, whilst paying just tribute to the memory of that 

 man, seem to have rested upon the fact that he was a citizen 

 of St. Louis. He was also a Missourian, my friends, and 

 he acknowledged his fealty to the Commonwealth by nam- 

 ing this unequaled Garden for the State of his adoption. 

 It is the Missouri Botanical Garden, and it belongs as much 

 to the citizens of this State as it does to the citizens of St. 

 Louis alone. St. Louis is a part of Missouri; Missouri is 



