INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION AT LONDON.
Speech in the Senate, on the Joint Resolution providing for Representation there, January 31, 1862.
January 31st, the Senate proceeded to consider the joint resolution reported by Mr. Sumner from the Committee on Foreign Relations, providing for representation at the Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations at London in the year 1862.
Mr. Hale, of New Hampshire, said that he was “entirely opposed to this whole thing.” Mr. Sumner then spoke as follows.
MR. PRESIDENT,—The Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. Hale] objects to the joint resolution, but he assigns no reason. When I make a personal appeal to him, he declines to answer. Of course, that is according to his right. He may be silent, though we are always too happy when he speaks. It becomes my duty, therefore, to explain the resolution, which I shall do in few words.
At the extra session of Congress in July last, a joint resolution was adopted in the following words:—
“That the President be, and he hereby is, authorized to take such measures as shall to him seem best to facilitate a proper representation of the industrial interests of the United States at the Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations to be holden at London in the year 1862, and the sum of two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the incidental expenses thereof.”