Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-02-14


The Governor yesterday transmitted
20 the legislature The folI owing reDort Of
Mrs. Judge Wagstaff, Assistant Lady
Commissioner to the New Orleans Fam.
1t VIII be seen that she makes no rec
ommendaCOns whatever, but simply sets
1orth the state of affairs as they at pres
ent exist:
TO lis E1es1sHcy, John A. Martin. G0usrRS7aof the
Stats Of Kansas:
About the 18th Of December, 1884, I
started to New Orleans, with Mrs. Angus
tus Wilson, as Lady Commissioner for
Kansas, TO assist her at the Worlds In
dustrlal and Cotton Exhibition. Arrived
at New Orleans on the morning Of the
10Th; was present with Mrs. Wilson at
Ghe opening OF the Exposition. Mrs
Wilson remained seyeralz days in the pre-
hmlnary work, aad taeEl left. There
after remained alone, IN charge
OF the work about two weeks.
Dnring that time the arrange
ments IN almost every depaEtAent
Of the work were incomplete.
The business management did not seem
to be well systematised. Still the large
exhibits, the assembled multitude of
people clearly indicated it a Worlds Ex
position Nearly every State in the
Union and many foreign nations were
represented. Nearly every State had its
Lady Commissioners, most of them two,
and Ohio and Texas four. Most of the
States have appropriated to this depart
ment 900, Texas $4,000. To aid the
Ladies' Department in this Exposition
the Federal Government appropriated
$4,000 for all the States. Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe Is Chief of the Ladies' De
.partment for all the States. General
Burke, editor Of the TEme8-DemOcrat,
New Orleans, is Director Gen
eral of the whole management.
The $4,000 appropriated by the
Federal Government secures to each
State..spaCe In the Exposition buildings,
also cases and furniture In which to ex-
hibit the ladies' offerings free of cost
The necessary requisitiOn was made, and
the management set apart space, cases
and furniture in the Exposition build
ings for the use of the ladies of Kansas.
At the Exposition large boxes filed with
articles by the ladies Of Kansas are in
store and unopened. These boxes, with
contents, are safely deposited and care
fully guarded. The articles contained
therein are not on exhibition because no
one is authorized to put them in
place, guard and call public attention
to them. The lady commissioners have
not been provided with means to meet
current expenses. This is why the
writer returned to Kansas. The lady
commissioners would gladly resume the
work assigned them, and to the best Of
their skill and ability represent the no
! BILE women of Kansas and present to the
world their handiWOrk and artistic skill,
If provided with the necessary means to
/ prosecute the noble and honorable work.
/ Other States have made liberal apprO-
/ priatiOns for this class of work; the State
/ Of Kansas not one cent. The law making
the 81, 900 appropriation does not pro
/ vide for it, nor has any Of it been APP
/ piled for that purpose. The
act making the apprOpria-
/ ton approved March %, 1884
/ is expressed in this language: ITO en-
! able Kansas to make an exhibit of her
fruits, cereals and manufactured articles,
| at the Worlds Industrial and Cotton EE-
/ position, at New Orleans December 1884
/ to be disbursed under such rules and
! regulations as the Executive Council
may make, seven thousand dOllars.t
! Manufactured articles, as used in the
law, might, as between man and man
/ be construed to mean domestic and ar.
! tistic work, manufactured by women
/ but when strictly construed, between
man and woman, the man takes
| all, the woman nothing. The
| same clause when construed by the Elk
eCutive Council, as between man anC
man is construed to embrace the "col
lecting geological specimens" All the
elective State officers constitute the Elk
ecutive Council referred to in the Law
making the appropriation. The whole
of the seven thousand dollars has beer
drawn from the State Treasury. The
vouchers on file in the State AUDITOR
Office show for what, to whom, and wheI
this appropriation was paid.
FIRST INSTALLAENT.
The State Of Kansas to Frank Bacon UniteC
States Commissioner for Kansas:
/ Adf, 1884. d.
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