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said Chancellor may change such designation and appointment from 

 time to time as the interests of the Institution may in his judgment 

 require. 



(Stat. XXIII, 21.) 



NEUMANN'S SILK FLAG. 



April 25, 1884 Senate. 



Mr. JOHN SHERMAN. I am directed by the Joint Committee on the 

 Library to report back a resolution submitted by the Senator from 

 California [Mr. John F. Miller] and to recommend its passage. As it 

 is a very brief matter, I ask for its present consideration. 



The Chief Clerk read the resolution, as follows: 



Resolved, That the silk flag presented by Mr. Joseph Neumann, of California, to 

 the Senate and accepted by the Senate on the 12th day of July, 1870, the said flag 

 being, it is believed, the first American flag made of American silk, be deposited in 

 the Smithsonian Institution for exhibition and preservation. 



The President pro tempore (Mr. GEORGE F. EDMUNDS). Is there 

 objection to the present consideration of the resolution ? The Chair 

 hears none. The question is on agreeing to it. 



Mr. JOSEPH R. HAWLEY. 1 have not the slightest objection to the 

 resolution, but I wish merely to put on record my grave doubt as to 

 whether that is the first native American flag. It is my duty as a 

 representative of the Connecticut manufacturers to say that. 



Mr. SHERMAN. We do not say that it is the first by adopting the 

 resolution. 



Agreed to. 



EXPOSITIONS. 



New Orleans Exposition. 

 May 21, 1884. 



An act to make a loan to aid, etc. 



Whereas by the act of Congress entitled "An act to encourage the 

 holding of a World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in 

 the year 1884," approved February 10, 1883, in the city of New Orleans, 

 under the joint auspices of the United States, the National Cotton 

 Planters' Association of America, and the said city of New Orleans, a 

 World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition is to be held, 

 universal in character, comprehending all arts, manufactures, and 

 products of the soil and mine; and 



Whereas by said act Congress declares that such exposition should 

 be national and international in its character; and 



Whereas under said act a board of management has been duly con- 

 stituted and incorporated under the laws of the State of Louisiana, 

 the members of which have been appointed by the President of the 

 United States upon recommendations made in the manner set forth in 

 said act, and therefore are a duly qualified and commissioned United 



