Territorial Expansion Memorial Commission. Federal memorial commission to consider plans for memorial near St. Louis, report to accompany S.J.Res. 93 [authorizing creation of a Federal memorial commission, to be known as United States Territorial Expansion Memorial Commission, to consider and formulate plans for construction, on western bank of Mississippi River, at or near site of old St. Louis, Mo., of permanent memorial to men who made possible territorial expansion of United States, particularly President Thomas Jeffereson and his aids, Livingston and Monroe, who negotiated Louisiana purchase, and to great explorers, Lewis and Clark, and hardy hunters, trappers, frontiersmen, and pioneers and others who contributed to territorial expansion and development of United States]; submitted by Mr. Keller.

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