Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-04
A QUEER DEsAND.
A Man Who Wants the Worlds Cotton
Exposition, {, be Held at New
Orleans, Placed on the
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Washington, December 3O.-Youl
| corresponds I called on Postmaster
| General CT esham tot light 20 inquir,
of aim as 10 what lranspired between
| himself and Mr.. Stcver-, in an inter
view between them about the relations
of the Worlds otton Exposition t.
the Louisiana lottery. The story u.
sent Ia the Chicago Times from This
city was, in bIief, that Stevers had de.
manded of General Gresham that the
cotton exposition ought to be placed
| upon tie official list of frauds and be
| denitd the use of the mats; that the
| reasoDs, which are To he given in
writing by Mr.. Stevers, are that
| the managers of the cotton expo.
sition hold similar positions IN
the lottery company, and are using he
exposition project as u preteXt Tor MAX
ing up any LOSSES they may have sus-
tanned Ivy being denied tue usr of the
mails, with view TO flood New Or
leans with strangers and secure q mar
krt for their tickets. aud that the lot
terry company is the largest stock
h llder in the cotton eXpOsiliu enter
prise. The special goes on To say that
the posImas ter-Seneral was struck
with abatement at the audacity of the
anti-lottery p.opie in attacking an en-
terprise Endorsed by congress and 10y
the official proclamation of President
Arthur, ana he had no authority I'M
der the law To close tn mails 10 the
directors of the exposition.
PostuIaster-Gen raj Gresham read
the Tim story and said: "a Mr.. Ste
VcrS did call on me auh state SUbSlan-
italy ~ hat Is attributed 10 him, adj
ding "a demand that the exposition be
put on the FRAUDULENT list. | san: "My
dear sir, even were all you say the
truth, l have no authority To act la the
matter The functions of my office
are prescribed with reference to the
use OF the mails, and even
then have nothing Ia
do but 10 enforce the law with
respect TO the mails. / cannot utter
fere with the business of prescribed
concerns even IL any of the cities in
which they are located. / "a only
enjoined 10y the law 10 prevent such
concerns from using the mails Til
man wanted TO argue the case, but /
told him / could not waste time an
such AN absurd proposition, and dis
missed him. The entire interview did
not occupy as much time as L have
given you, and he did most of the
talking"
Pos.master-General Gresham ex-
pressed the belief that the worlds
cotton exposition as its purposes are
in the law, win be II great |
thing, NOT only for the South, but for
the eutire country. AS he understands |
its objects, IL Is not to be confined tn |
the productions of the cotton planter
and the cotton-manuiactu alone, |
which even then would make IL OF
Worldwide interest, bat its scope is
to be extended 10 as Ia EN-
brace every kind of machinery
used tn elevate the domestic and social
of the misses. The civilized
nations are II, Xt-dnor nrighbors now,
views daily and adapt.
ing e,,ch Ia its peculiar wants the pro-
duct OF its neiRhbor's industry. Such
AN exposition IA that to he held in
New Oleans next year would doubt
| ~ disclose the fact that the Un ted
states may easily feed the world from
the sll D us of its possible agricultural
products 20 the day will come when
We may ~ easily elothe the world
from our abundance. The people of
the country hardl realize the ad
thai bip. been made in in
dustral strength, and all expositions,