, 1890-02-22
SHOUTING FOR 4 SITE.
Champions of Various Cities
Still Talking.
A Vote Will Probably be
Taken Monday.
The Pacific Coast to Have a
Gun Foundry.

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WASHINGTON. Feb. 2l.-Hooker of
Minnesota proceeded with his address ON
the worlds fair bill.
Mills of Texas made = speech Directing
10 the bill altogether IS = matter with
which the government should have moth
ing 70 do. He would vote tor St. Louis
- the site, and when hat question was
decided would vote against the bill Alto
gether.
Morse of Massachusetts, announced
that he would vote against tho bill be-
only site that could be selected - . COM
promise. and holding it in WashinGton
would cost the government several mil
lions of doilars, which could better be ex-
pended for pensions. public buildings or
postal Telegraph.
Peters of Kansas said it was an almost
hopeless task to try 70 stem the tide of
patriotic feeling. but before congress COM
mitted itself it should SEQ if the govern
ment could afford it Tho regular esti
mated appropriations for The next fiscal
year were 4406. OO0. 900; miscellaneous ap-
preparations made during the special SEES
sion were $40, 900, O0c, and during the
long session the amount would certainly
not be lessL 10 addition there were At
least 925, 000. 900 of deficiencies. making
the grand aggregate Of appropriations
IA. 00O. 900. There were only$ $50, 000, 900
of estimated revenue with which to pay
them. These figures did not take the
rivers and harbors into consideration.
O'Nein of PennsylvaniA argued there
was too little time remaining to arrange
for = worlds fair in 1892.
Blanchard of Louisiana argued in favor
Of the fair, but did not speak for any
particular locality.
O'Ferrell Of Virginia and Gibson of
Maryland favored Washington as the
place for the fair.
Houk said to have the fair anywhere
except at the national capital would take
from it most of its importance. Let the
nation inherit the buildings which must
be constructed here for the fair. They
would-be needed for public uses.
Wilson of West Virginia said We had
had . series Of contennials during the
past fourteen years. Their influence for
GOOD could hardly be over estimated.
We should show to the old world the
grandest sight Of the earth-a great
nation built upon the corner stone of
liberty. 1t necessarily followed that the
only right q proper place for the fair
was At the seat of that national govern
ment.
vandever Of California argued in favor
Of st. LOUIS claim. If 1t was to be a
financial transaction purely, why not ad
vertise for bids and give the fair to the
city Offering the most money. He be-
lieved the next exposition would be held
in California. and therefore he favored
the claims Of st. Louis as a recognition of
the strength and greatness of the West.
Carlisle said the exposition was to give
the people of the Old World not an in
sight into our great manufactures and
industries only, but to show them our
great country. He would vote for st.
proved.of the bills presented BY the COM
mittee. Congress had no authority to
hold . fair elsewhere than in the District
of Columbia or in the territories. H op-
posed the appropriation of 81, 500, 900.
If . state wanted the fair its citizens had
only TO incorporate themselves aud hold
it. He would vote for the bill only after
they had been amended 70 meet his
views.
Kinsely OF Missouri advocated ehat the
fair be held in st. Louis.
O'Neil of Indiana believed his con-
~stituents' interests would be best served
by holding the fair in St. Louis.
Wilson OF Missouri also argued in ia
vor Of st. Louis.
Forman of Illinois was for the fair, not
IS an accommodation to foreigners, but
a. An educational aid to the people of this
country. He was for St. Louis because
it offered the best guarantee Of the sue
cess Of the fair.
Hatch Of Missouri pleaded Tor the fair
to be held at St. Louis, the great center
of all trade and commerce OF this coun-
try. Continuing. Hatch ridiculed the
New York site. He described Forest
Park, st. Louis, with its magnificent
groves and 1880 acres. where, said be.
You could pick mp your little park and
dump it down three times a day."
CULTIVATE of Ohio SAID the celebration
should be held beyond the Alleghenies.
ODeying . joint resolution of the Ohio
Legislature, and his own impulses, he
favored Chicago.
Mason of Illinois made > strong speech
tor Chicago. The Southern brothers
charged the Republicans with unkindness
and too severe suticism 10 political mat
ters. They in turn charged the Southern
people with tie same faults, and bitter
ness was aroused. How could this be
stopped better than BY meeting on = com
mon ground in . common cause? Come
to Chicago and see Whether her hospital
ity differed much from that Of GeorRis.
Mississippi or Kentucky.
Gear Of Iowa spoke Of the elories of
ChicaRo's rise. It had pluck, and push.
and energy. and would make the fair =
Kerr of Iowa believed the fair, if held
in the East, would not exhibit the true