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$40,000, except the products could be sold and help pay 

 the expenses. I do not understand, and I do not believe 

 a member of the State Board does understand that we 

 have any right to apportion any part of that $800,000 

 to make an exhibit in the National Building ; our hands 

 are tied on that point. It is possible we might take the 

 authority of doing that, but we could not use the $800,- 

 000 if we did. If we appropriated any money for 

 that purpose, we would have to take the money that is 

 in the hands of the State Board, as a State Board, and 

 not as World's Fair commissioners. . We have studied 

 this matter very thoroughly. I know the representa- 

 tives of nearly every association of this State, have 

 been disappointed, they have not got what they ex- 

 pected for their different departments. I know it is so 

 in the Horticultural Society and in the Geological 

 department and the State Board of Charities, some of 

 them thought it would take $150,000 to make a proper 

 exhibit of the charitable institutions of this State. 

 You said last night you wanted to ask the State Board 

 for all the money that you could get and more, too. 

 Now, if we can not possibly give it to you, you ought 

 not to censure us. We must, as far as we possibly can, 

 make a creditable exhibition of every department in 

 the State of Illinois. 



Mr. Boyd: It seems to me that if you gentlemen are 

 obliged to put this construction on the law, and it is 

 against y our good judgment, it is a very simple thing 

 to go to the legislature and ask their construction of 

 it. I am very certain that our legislature never intend- 

 ed that it should be confined in that way ; it is not 

 common sense to appropriate $800,000 and then not 

 allow you to make an exhibit of the most important 

 industry in the State, See what other States are doing. 



