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but all that was done in this way was so manifestly inadequate
that Congress was again successfully appealed to and asked to make a cash
appropriation on the score of its being a great national work on the national
frontier. The general government has made repeated appropriations which
have been expended under the skillful direction of General Weitzel and Gen-
eral 0. M. Poe, until the locks are now the largest and most perfect and
durable structures of the kind in the world. I might say in closing my
reference to the canal that the State of Michigan, under the advice of Gov-
ernor Jerome, very wisely transferred its title and interest, with the care and
management of the canal, to the United States.
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