EXPOSITION OF 1867. 
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Paris of the natural resources and industrial and social progress 
of our State. As a consequence, the summer and autumn of 
866 , every moment of which should have been actively em¬ 
ployed by some competent and zealous agent in the field, 
passed without anything being done. Late in November, 
at the request of the Board of Trade of Milwaukee, 
Your Excellency appointed several additional commissioners,— 
the undersigned being among the number,—and on the second 
of December, a meeting was held of such of the commissioners 
as could be called together, at Milwaukee. At this meeting, 
Hon. C. C. Sholes being in the chair, and Dr. A. M. Helmer 
acting as Secretary, a permanent organization of the Wiscon¬ 
sin Commission was effected by the choice of the undersigned 
as President, with full authority and instructions : 
1. To take such steps and adopt such measures as to him 
should seem necessary to insure a representation of this State, 
by its products, at the Paris Exposition of 1867. 
2. To superintend the exhibition of such products at Paris, 
and be responsible for their final disposition. 
3. To make to the Slate such report as he should deem 
proper of his transactions in behalf of the Commission, and on 
the Exposition itself. 
Assured by the Commission of the hearty co-operation and 
support of all the members thereof, and encouraged by Your 
Excellency and the official action of the Chamber of Commerce 
of Milwaukee, to believe that pecuniary means requisite to 
meet all legitimate expenses of the contemplated exhibition 
would, in some manner, be furnished to the Commission, 
I accepted the appointment, with the responsibilities imposed, 
and immediately commenced my labors by addressing the 
following printed appeal to prominent citizens, and by pro¬ 
curing its publication in most of the leading papers of the 
State: 
