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68 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 6
of in the crowd on that occasion, which furnishes the
finest opportunity for advertising ever open to man.
We have a small appropriation available for the use
of the commission appointed to look after the Mary-
land exhibits, but which is totally inadequate to make
a display in keeping with our possibilities and the
occasion.
The amount should be speedily supplemented by an
additional appropriation. Great expedition will be
required on the part of the commissioners in any case
to make the best showing possible, but their efforts
will be unavailing if your Honorable Body does not
act at once.
A State building on the fair grounds is eminently
desirable, possible of construction within the time
available, and will prove an inestimable comfort and
convenience to the many Marylanders and their friends
who will from time to time visit the fair, and espec-
ially on September 12th, which has been set apart as
Maryland Day.
It is due our business, manufacturing and farming
interests that Maryland shall be kept to the front at
the exposition.
CONCLUSION.
A thorough and complete resume of all the facts re-
garding the ramifications of the State's manifold in-
terests would tax your patience and mine. I have
therefore, endeavored in the preceding pages to treat
as concisely as a due regard for the necessities of the
case possibly permits, those subjects only which the
organic law and the Statutes of the State require me
to inform you of, and also a few matters which in my
judgment are of such importance as to demand your
action. I have purposely refrained from suggesting
any detailed plan of legislative action, because I have
no power to co-operate with you in the development
and adoption of any such plan. Suggestions from me
would therefore partake of the nature of a gratuitous,
academic discussion, void of practical results, which
might be regarded as an intrusion. I shall accordingly
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