EXPOSITION OF 1867. 
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Touching the action of the Legislature in making suitable 
provision for the expenses of the exhibition from Wisconsin, I 
regret to say that even the moderate expectations of the Com¬ 
mission were disappointed. For, although an appropriation was 
linally made, it was so long delayed that, in order to keep faith 
with exhibitors for whose goods I had become responsible, I 
was obliged to leave for Paris without assurance that anything 
at all would be done by the State, and, when arrived, to man¬ 
age the installation of our exhibits at my own personal cost. 
On the 20th of March, 1867, some days after my departure, 
the following provisions became a law, to wit: 
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Section 1. For the purpose of paying such unavoidable and necessary ex¬ 
pense of the exhibition of the products of Wisconsin at the Paris universal 
exposition, to be held this present year, there is hereby placed at the dispo¬ 
sal of the governor, to be used at his discretion, the sum of two thousand 
dollars, or so ranch thereof as he may deem necessary, and this amount of two 
thousand dollars is hereby appropriated from the general fund of the state, 
out of any money belonging to said fund not otherwise appropriated : pro¬ 
vided, that no portion of the amount hereby appropriated shall be used or ap¬ 
plied to pay the personal expenses of or any salary to any comm'ssioner to 
said exposition. 
Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in force fi om and after its 
passage. 
And, in the month of June, Your Excellency’s communication 
dated April 12th, and covering a draft on Paris for 5,000 Irancs, 
was received. In view of these circumstances of delay on the 
part of the State, and of consequent doubt as to whether any 
aid might be expected therefrom at all, I have great pleasure 
in acknowledging the very cordial and generous manner in 
which the Commissioner General of the United States, Hon. 
N. M. Beckwith, provided, at the expense of the national 
fund, much, in the way of both labor and material, that was 
justly chargeable to the State, and thus enabled me, at length, 
not only to make a creditable exhibit of Wisconsin products, 
but even to leave in your hands a small balance of the appro¬ 
priation originally so small that otherwise the whole amount 
would have proved insufficient for the unavoidable expenses 
of the exhibition. 
The foregoing, somewhat lengthy record of the preliminary 
transactions of the Commission is made in no spirit of censo- 
