The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-20
The FAIR SQUABBLE
The Managers Are Affording a
Sight of Not a Site.
THE HOW-NOT-TO-DO-IT POLICY
LIS In the Aseendent in Every Departments
Inc DE Young Classification is Adopted
as the Official One.

CHICAGO, Nov. 19.-There was lively
"rangie In the Worlds fair commission
to-day over the passage of resolution bv
the executive committee calling on the sec
rotary and treasurer not to paw bills pre-
sented by the foreign affairs committee. of
which Chauncey NJ. Depew is chairman.
Inc OBJECT is said to be to prevent that
committee from esta blshing London bur-
eau. The executive committee was severelv
taken to task by the revisal commissioner
Tor Its discourtesy and the matter finally
went over without action.
Inc board of lady managers of the World,s
columbian exposition met here TODAY
Ihey were called to order and welcomed to
participation in the work by President
Palmer, of the national commission. In the
course OF his remarks, he called attention
10 the TACT that this was the first time
IN the history of the nation in
which woman had been fully recoq-
nlzed Dy the government in the admfpistra-
ZION OF a great public trust Mrs. Fulton
OF Georgia, was elected temporary presi-
uent, a number of committees were an
pointed and the ladies adjourned. Among
tue names prominently mentioned in con-
|
are Mrs. Potter Palmer. Mrs. General
Logan, Miss Phoebe Couzens, of St. Iouis
one OF the names most prominently mem
TONED for vice president is Mrs / n
Deane, OF California.
Inc congressional committee concluded
us hearings to-day. One of the members
said they confidently looked for a satt1e-
ment OF the problem in day or two.
Early in the session of the national com
mission to-day trouble again developed.
Messy, OF Delaware, referred to a report
IN Inc local papers that the executive com
1nlttee had passed a resolution sto head off
Ihe foreign affairs committees from estab-
nshlng London bureau" etc. He said
the resolution was very distasteful and
reflected seriously on the foreign affairs
committee which had not spent a dollar of
the money assigned to it.
Governor Waller, OF Connecticut. a MEM
Der or the foreign affairs committee also
OBJECTED strenuously to the reflection cast
upon Inc committee by the resolution. He
SAID the executive committee was all
wrong, and that it has nothing to do with
the standing committees except in a super~
Vlsory way. He introduced a resolution
settlng forth that it is the sense of the com
mission tnat the committee has taken M
action Justifying the resolution of heexec-
utive committee
commissioner De Young wanted to intro
O SSOAutIOA Gazing IOf Jl6 eXDurCd-
tion OF the entire executive committee res
olutlon, but Waller said he only wanted
Justification.
Commissioner Allen, of New York. then
moved resolution requesting the execu-
tlVe committee TO either exDunge the nm
fortunate resolution from its proceedings
or officially disavow the intent of disre
spect TO the foreign affairs committee. AT
ter a lengthy talk, both resolutions went
over.
Mckenzie and Britton, members of the
executive committee made an address re
GREETING their resolution had been so
Worded as to give false impression as to
tnelr intentions in the matter. No disre-
spect or aspersion was intended. The re-
port OF the foreign affairs committee was
then read and laid over
The committee on buildings and grounds
made report reviewing the site entangle-
ment, and recommending that the main
portion of the fair be located in jackson
park; the art gallery, music hall and cleo
trlcal display on Lake Front, and that
Midway Plaizance and Washington parlC
be used for the overflow. This report went
over without action.
The Classification committee then re-
ported the result of its labors they having
agreed upon the De Young classification
Alter some discussion the report was
adopted, fixing the De Young classification
as the Official one for the exposition.