News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-05-06
FROM WASHINGTON
Correspondence ofthe News and Citizen.l
WASHINGTON, d. c.,
Anril 30. 1886.

exercised over Tue movement lOr
permanent exposition to be inaugural
ed April 80, 1889, the one hundredth
anniversary of the adoption of the
constitution, and of the Inauguration
of George Washington, as the first
President of the United States. Sc
far, the movement has received the
endorsement of every one who bas
given expression to an opinion on the
subject.
1t is the intention to inaugurate the
permanent exposition on the day that
is stated, and to increase and magni-
fy the exposition until it .culminates
in a grand worlds exposition on the
18th day of October, 1892, the four
hundredth anniversary of the discov-
ery of America by Columbus. 1t is
hoped that before the time specified,
Congress will submit, and the States
will ratify an amendment to the con-
stitution, changing the date of the in
auguration of the President from
March 4, to April 80, and thus with
the Inauguration of the exposition
and Of the next President, to gather
at the Capital the greatest number OF
American citizens ever assembled.
A careful and painstaking investi-
CATION of the subject demonstrates
the fact that with very little trouble
100000 of people can, if they but
so will it, be brought into the city
from within a radius of two hundred
miles, within one night, or within Il
hours of their leaving their homes
Such a congress of people would
prove the greatest event in the worlds
history, and more strikingly illustrate
the progress of the century, country
and the world, than any other that
can possibly be conceived.
The committee having the matter
in charge is composed of the wisest,
wealthiest, most intelligent and pro-
gressive men of the district, and from
present appearances will have the en-
dorsement of both Houses of Con-
gress, the President and his entire
Cabinet, while it is hoped it will re-
ceive the hearty support of all the
pople.
At the last meeting of the Execu
tive committee, much enthusiasm was
displayed, and the Governors of the
forty-six States and Territories, the
Presidents and Secretaries of the prin'
cipal boards of trade throughout the
United States, and the Mayors of al
cities containing population O
$4,000 and upwards, were appointed
&c 0ftcjO members of the board Of
promotion. Within three years, ham,
pered by an adverse public sentiment,
Governor Shepherd and the few wise
spirits who stood by him, caused the
transformation of a city of magnifi
cent distances of hills and valleys,
dust and mud, into the most beauti-
ful on the continent and presented the
nation with capital of which every
citizen should feel proud. Started on
49, N-sN----g C r~~s-~-~, - ha>- so~e
on from beauty to loneliness, more en-
trancing than was ever expected, and
pursuing the same steady course, in
1892 we will be able to present to the
assembled natives the grandest capital
city in the world. Within three years,
with the endorsement of the people,
the aid Of the National and State Gov
ernments, we can present to the peo-
pie the grandest exposition ever wit
messed and an assemblage of free,
enlightened, progressive people, that
will cause despotism, imperialism and
king craft to totter to their fall and
the loud shout of liberty, fraternity
and equality to reach the uttermost
parts of the earth.
Every citizen Of the United States
who loves his country and the princi-
pies on which the government is
founded, has personal interest in
this enterprise, for by the gathering
of the people together, their comming-
ling with each other, the bond of a
common brotherhood is strengthened,
the enmities and arrangements of the
past are obliterated and in unity of
effort for national purpose, COM
mon good, the ties of the national
Union of owners of interests and a
love for the principles on
which the government is founded, are
more indissolubly cemented.
1t was expected with the endorse
nent of President Cleveland, Secre-
AIRY Manning and the administration
organ, the New York Star, that Dem
1crats of every shade would heartily
mite in the support of the Morrison
Iewett Tariff Bill, but it now turns
)ut that Mr.. Randall and other Penn
'ylvania Democrats, together with the
wool Democrats of Ohio, will antago-
lize the measure, and it is supposed
that with the solid vote of the Repub-
licans the bill will not even pass the
House. 1t is evident that Mr.. Ran
dali is determined that no measure
affecting the tariff introduced by Mr..
Morrison, shall pass the House if he
can prevent it. Randall feels sore
over being deposed from the leader
ship in the House, and his friends as
sert that there is no one in that body
who can take his place. Morrison,
they say, is zone idea man, Holman
a mere moving negative, while Spring
er, well, Springer is Springer, and that
is all. They seem to act on the idea
that ''no good can come out of Naza-
'eth," or in other words, that it will
not do to put man from the south in
he lead, and therefore they must look
% the north, and with them the north
means Randall. What will be the
of the matter is in the future,