1802 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
March 3, 1899. 
Whereas it is desirable to encourage the holding of the Ohio Gea 
nial and Northwest Territory Exposition at the city of Toledo, in the 
State of Ohio, in the year 1902-or 1903, as the Ohio general assembly 
may hereafter determine, for the exhibition of the resources of the 
United States of America, Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philip-. 
pines, and the progress and civilization of the American countries, 
and for a display of the arts, industries, manufactures, and products 
of the soil, mine, and sea; and 
Whereas it is desirable to commemorate by an appropriate naval 
display the important victory of Commodore Perry in the western 
waters of Lake Erie, beside which waters said exposition is located; and 
Whereas it is ae able for its historical and educational emeun that 
there be given an exhibition of the Indians of North America, and a 
especially the-tribes of the old Northwest Territory; and 
Whereas it is desirable that an exhibition shall be made of the great 
staples of the original Northwest Territory and Ohio Valley region, 
which contributes so largely to domestic and inter natsotal commerce; 
and 
Whereas encouragement should be given to an exhibit of the arts, 
industries, manufactures, and products illustrative of the progress and 
development of that and other sections of the country; and 
Whereas such éxhibition should be international as well as national 
in its character, in which the people of this country, of Mexico, the 
Central and South American governments, and other States of the 
world should participate, and should, therefore, have the sanction of 
the Congress of the United States; and 
Whereas it is desirable and will be highly beneficial to bring together 
at such an exposition the people of the United States and other States 
of this continent; and 
Whereas the Ohio Centennial Company, a corporation, has under- 
taken to hold such exposition, beginning on the first day of May, 1902 
or 1903, and closing on the first day of November, 1902 or 1903: 
Therefore, 
Be it enacted, etc., That there shall be exhibited by the Government 
of the United States at said Ohio Centennial and Northwest Territory 
Exposition from the Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion and National Museum, the Commission of Fish and Fisheries, 
the Department of Labor, and the Bureau of American Republics | 
such articles and materials as illustrate the function and administra- 
tive faculty of the Government, its resources as a war power, and 
its relations to other American Republics; and, to secure a complete 
and harmonious arrangement of said Government exhibit, a board 
of management shall be created, to be charged with the selection, — 
purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, safe-keeping, — 
exhibition, and return of such articles and materials as the heads of — 
