The age-herald., 1901-12-04
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE,

hibits which have been at Buffalo. prom
 ising to pay the necessary expenses. l
 have taken the responsibility of directing
 that this be done, for l feel that It Is due to Charleston to help her in her praiseworthy effort. In my opinion the
 management should not be required to
 pay all these expenses. l earnestly rec
 ommend that the Congress appropriate at
 once the small sum necessary for this
 purpose.
 The Pan-American Exposition at Buff | falo has just closed Both from the indus i trial and the artistic standpoint this ex- position has been in a high degree cred itable and useful, not merely to Buffalo | but to the United tates. The terrible tragedy of the Presidents assassination interfered materially with its being a financial success The exposition was pe- culiarly in harmony with the trend of our public policy, because it represented an effort to bring into closer touch all l the peoples of the Western Hemisphere,
 and give them an increasing sense of uni lty Such an effort was a genuine ser vice to the entire American public.
 Smithsonian institution.
 The advancement of the highest inter
 ests of nation science and learning and : the custody of objects of art and of the valuable results of scientific expeditions conducted by the United States have been
 committed to the Smithsonian Institution. In furtherance of its declared purpose for the increase and diffusion of lxnowf- edge among men"-the Congress has from
 tune to time given 1t other important functions Such trusts have been exeeut- ed by the Institution with notable fldel- fty There should be no halt in the work of the institution, in accordance with the plans which its secretary has presented, for the preservation of the vanishing races of great North American animals in the National Geological Park The ur- gent needs of the National Museum are recommended to the favorable consider ation of the Congress.
 Library of Congress. Perhaps the most characteristic educa- tional movement of the past fifty years Is that which has created the modern public library and developed 1t into broad and active service. There are now over five thousand public libraries in the Unit ed tates the product of this period. Tn addition to accommodating material, they are also striving by organization, by im- provement in method, and by co-opera-
 tion, to give greater efficiency to the material they hold, to make it more wide- ly useful, and by avoidance of unnecessa- ry duplication in process to reduce the cost of It's administration
 Tn these emortS they naturally look foI
 assistance to the Federal library which
 though still the Library of Congress, and
 so entitled. is the one National library o1
 the United States. Already the largest single collection of books on the West. ern Hemisphere. and certain to increase
 more rapidly than any other through pur. chase exchange, and the operation o1
 the copyright law, this library has g unique opportunity to render to the libra. l ries of this country-to American scholar ship-service of the highest importance l It is housed in a building which Is tho l largest and most magnificent yet erected | for library uses. Resources are now being provided which will develop the collec- l tion properly, equip it with the apparatus and service necessary to it's effective use render its photographic work widely avail | able, and enable it to become not merely | a center of research, but the chief factor | in great cooperative efforts for the diff fusion of knowledge and the advancement of learning.
 Census Bureau.
 For the sake of good administration,
 sound economy, and the advancement of | science, the Census Office as now consti- 1 tuted should be made a permanent gov 1 ernment bureau This would insure bet. | ter, cheaper. and more satisfactory work l in the interest not only of our business but of statistics, economic, and social sci. | ence.
 The remarkable growth of the postal