The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-04-22

The Senate Snppresses st. Louis
Last Kick.
BIG MAJORITY FOR THE BILL,
New York to be Consoled with . Naval
Keview-The CoIumbas Statue
R<teeted-vest's Sereed.

Keview-The CoIumbas Statue
R~Jeesed-vsst's sereed.
WAsHrxGros crrr, April 2i.-The Sem
ate TO-DAY passed the Worlds fair bill by q
vote Of 43 to L. When the bill came up on final
passage, as reported from the committee, .
new section had been inserted providing
for naval review in New York harbor in
April. 1888, and the unveiling Of . statue of
Columbus at Washington
MI. Vest spoke AZ length in opposition to
the bill He asked whether there had been
IN the whole contest for the fair anything
that elevated or dignifed the American
character ~ home or abroad. II they
were to assume patriotic standpoint, or If
the idea was to illustrate the nationality
OF the four hundredth anniversary of
America. why was it not done in
the name OF the people of the
United States and not squabble over
locality? Why had it been . sort OF auc-
ton between the cities rs to which would
give the most money and entail the small
est expense on the government? Ii it was
TO Be . national matter, Why did not
the nation itself, with its over
flowing treasury, take upon itself
the expense of the whole matter?
From the beginning it has been simply
an advertising scheme and the basis of
municipal rivalry between the great cities
OF the United States.
In this connection Mr. Vest read extracts
from magazines and newspaper articles.
and commented upon them as scandal to
~ aarsr -
ou'es. He referred to Chauncy Depew's
speech before the Senate committee. and
10 his mentien of the town of Peeskill as
his birthplace and IS the center OF larger
population than that OF which ST. Louis
was the center. and said Mr.. Depew's mod
esty had forbidden his going any further to
show Why Peekskiil did not aspire to the
site Of the Worlds fair. He (vestD sug-
gested that after that great act of parturi-
ton the vital energies of Peekskill were ex-
hausted, and that she had remained ever
since in state of '.innocuous desuetude. !"
Laughter. Mr.. Vest also read from
book gotten up in the interest OF New York
Poem of Nature, which was satire
on Chicago's wide extent Of recently an
nexed territory. The following verse ID a
sample of il.
The shades Of night were falling fast,
As DER Kansas prairie passed,
youth OF presence. gauns and thin,
But vast the shoes he travels in.
He'd driven ninety miles that day.
Nor seen shed where he could stay.
"0h, where am 10 at last he gruaned.
passing stranger softly moaneh, Chicago
The reading of these verses produced
great merriment In the Senate. Mr.. Vest
insinuated gently that the poet was Dr.
Depew.
For eighteen months he (vestl had been
engaged in the honorable task of attempt
ing to discover why the meat product of
the great states OF the West was so de-
pressed that the cattIe-raiser did not re-
ceive pay for his corn, his grass. his oats,
TO say nothing of his time and attention.
II his constituents could go to Chicago. in
the great stock yards, amid the believing
of cattle and grunting of hogs.
they would find what had be-
come of their cattle and how
their profits were lost to them, or il they
went into the wheat pit at Chicago, they
would there find amid the believing of
bears and the roaring OF bulls (presided
over by old "Hutch'D what had become
of their wheat crop year after year. In
Chicago the foreigner could see all the
emergencies and perils of the coming future
and could see the first strain on American
institutions. based on universal suffrage
He would find there . restless and danger
Gus foreign reputation. For himself he
did not object that foreigners should see
that phenomenal city of the great West.
but. as the senator could not give his vote
for the bill creating an exposition in any
city of the United States, he believed. like q
practical business man, that il came too
soon after the great Paris exposition. In
his honest Judgment. the people outside of
the cities engaged in the contest did not
care anything about the exposition. Had
the time.come when. in this country. the
people had TO be amused with shows in
their condition OF great pecuniary distress,
OF unjust laws and outrages perpetrated
upon them?
Mr.. German offered an amendment to
strike out the provision for q naval review
and insert an appropriation OF $500, 900 for
a memorial building in Washington as
repository Of the antiquities Of the Western
hemisphere. 1t was rejected.
Mr.. Cuilom said Chicago would make the
fair grand success and manifest her ap-
probation OF the great honor conferred
upon her. When the name OF Chicago was
mentioned, the senator from Missouri
(Vesl seemed to be seizsd with kind Of
hydrophobia. He tCulloml did not know
what harm Chicago had ever done the SEN
ator. The senator bad said his people were
in doubt - 10 whether they would go TO
Chicago or hades, and this raised the ques-
ton which place the gentleman represented.
But the people of Missouri would De at the
exposition by tens Of thousands. whether
the senator liked it or not.
Mr.. Blair suggested that the City of
Hades was q Democratic city. Mr.. Riair
was opposed 10 the proposition OF holding
a naval review as fostering the spirit OF
war. That aceursed institution was badge
OF savsgery Internal war. and should be
abolished. he offered an amendment EN-
powering the president 10 hold an exhibi-
ton Of the public schools and review the
public school children in Chicago. also an
amendment for tae erection of a statre in
memory of Q leen Isabella Of Spain. Both
were rejected.
Mr. Hoar moved TO amend by striking
out the provision for q statue Of Columbus
Mr.. Plumb argued sgainss naval re-
view. and said the purpose hack of this
amendment was that Sew York should
have something to break its fall. Some
thing that might minimize the fair at Chi
eago. A naval review is essentially 8
rnonarchlal idea The United States ought
TO show the difference between monarchy
based on arms and arepuhiic based on the