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agreed, after conference with him, that he should be added to the association com- 
mittee, not only to secure his valuable counsel, but to have the Bureau of Education 
properly represented on the committee, and the approval of this arrangement was 
obtained from the executive committee of the association. 
The executive committee at the Atlanta meeting was "charged with the duty of 
soliciting from Congress the sum of $(50,000 to meet the expense of installing and 
maintaining an exhibit of the distinctive work of the land-grant colleges and experi- 
ment stations." 
Because of the desire on the part of the live-stock interests that instruction and 
research in animal husbandry should be more fully emphasized than could be 
accomplished with the above-named sum, the executive committee subsequently 
decided to ask Congress for $100,000. 
THE ACTION OF CONGRESS. 
In accordance with its instructions, the executive committee, aided by members 
of the exposition committee, appeared before the House Committee on Expositions, 
of which Hon. James A. Tawney, of Minnesota, is chairman, and presented the 
wishes of this association in support of a bill which Mr. Tawney had previously 
introduced, and explained the nature and scope of the proposed exhibit. 
The substance of this bill was finally incorporated in the sundry civil appropriation 
bill, and was passed with practically no opposition. It is eminently fitting that, in 
this connection, your committee should call attention to the able and earnest efforts 
of Mr. Tawney in promoting the desire of the association and make to him, in behalf 
of the institutions here represented, most sincere acknowledgments for this valuable 
service. 
The text of the law governing this appropriation is as follows: 
"Additional Government Exhibit: For the selection, purchase, preparation, 
transportation, arrangement, installation, safe keeping, exhibition, and return of 
such articles, animals, and materials, belonging to or used by the agricultural colleges 
and experiment stations, hereinafter referred to, as the Government board created 
by act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, as amended by 
the act of June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, may decide to exhibit as 
a part of the Government exhibit, to show the progress of education and experimen- 
tation in agriculture, mechanic arts, and animal husbandry at the Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition, to be held under authority of said act, of the colleges of agriculture and 
mechanic arts and agricultural experiment stations receiving the benefits of the acts 
of Congress of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, March second, eighteen 
hundred and eighty-seven, and August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, one 
hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available; which sum shall be expended 
for that purpose only, and upon the authority of said Government board: Provided, 
That the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, at its own cost and expense, shall 
furnish to said Government board adequate and suitable space in an appropriate 
building or buildings for the installation of said exhibit and its exhibition during the 
continuance of said exposition." 
Special points in the law to be noticed are that the expenditure of the appropria- 
tion thus made is placed under the control of the United States Government Board 
of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and that this board was authorized to arrange 
with the colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts and the agricultural experiment 
stations for an "exhibit of the progress of education and experimentation in agri- 
culture, mechanic arts, and animal husbandry." It is provided that the exhibit is to 
be accomplished through the display of "articles, animals, and materials belonging 
to or used by the agricultural colleges and experiment stations." It is also specified 
that the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company shall provide, at its own cost and 
expense, adequate and suitable space in appropriate buildings of said company for 
the installation of said exhibit. 
ARRANGEMENTS WITH THE GOVERNMENT BOARD. 
In accordance with these terms, the chairman and secretary of your committee 
promptly conferred with the Government Board and asked it to declare its policy 
regarding the management of the business connected with the exhibit of agricultural 
colleges and experiment stations and its relations to the committee of the association. 
The necessary statements as to the origin, character, purpose, and plans of the 
