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the encouragement that can be given it. The man- 

 agers of the Charleston Exposition have requested 

 the Cabinet officers to place thereat the government 

 exhibits which have been at Buffalo, promising to 

 pay the necessary expenses. I have taken the re- 

 sponsibility of directing that this be done, for I feel 

 that it is due to Charleston to help her in her praise- 

 worthy effort. In my opinion the management 

 should not be required to pay all these expenses. I 

 earnestly recommend that the Congress appropriate 

 at once the small sum necessary for this purpose. 



The Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo has just 

 closed. Both from the industrial and the artistic 

 standpoint this Exposition has been in a high de- 

 gree creditable and useful, not merely to Buffalo but 

 to the United States. The terrible tragedy of the 

 President's assassination interfered materially with 

 its being a financial success. The Exposition was pe- 

 culiarly in harmony with the trend of our public 

 policy, because it represented an effort to bring into 

 closer touch all the peoples of the Western Hemi- 

 sphere, and give them an increasing sense of unity. 

 Such an effort was a genuine service to the entire 

 American public. 



The advancement of the highest interests of na- 

 tional science and learning and the custody of ob- 

 jects of art and of the valuable results of scientific 

 expeditions conducted by the United States have 

 been committed to the Smithsonian Institution. In 



