Excerpt from Proceedings of the Forty-First Annual Meeting of the National Board of Trade: Held in Washington, January, 1911 The Gallinger Ocean Mail Bill, in which the National Board of Trade was deeply interested, failed of passage in the House. The commercial interests of the country must now await the action of a future Congress for this or some other means of better mail and transportation facilities to increase our foreign trade. President Taft has called an extra session of the Sixty-second Con gress to convene April 4, 1911. The business sentiment of the country appears strongly in favor of the new Congress acting upon the Canadian Reciprocity Bill, creating a permanent Tariff Board and allowing the business of the country to rest until the regular session in December, 1911. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.