The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-22
PASSED BY The SENATE
The Worlds Fair Bnl Adopted by q
Vote Of IS 10 II.
New York to Have a Naval Review
The Provision for a Statue
OF Columbus at Wash
ington Rejected.


WASHINGTON, April a.-Among the
bills placed on the calendar was the SEN
ate bill to provide an additional associate
Justice for the supreme court Of Arizona.
Reagan introduced bill 10 repeal all
laws for the retirement Of army and navy
officers from active service in the navy.
Plumb introduced concurrent resolu-
tion directing the secretary of the treas
ury to purchase and coin silver bullion to
the maxium amount authorized by the act
of February q. 1873.
The Worlds fair bill then came up for
consideration.
Vest asked whether there had been in
the whole contest for the fair anything
that elevated or dignifled the American
character at home or abroad. II they
were to assume q patriotic standpoint or
IL the idea was to illustrate the national
life on the 400th anniversary OF America
why was II not done in the name of the
people of the United States and the squab-
bles over localities avoided? Why had
il been sort of auction between cities as
to which would give the most money and
entail the smallest expense on the govern
ment? IL il was to be national matter
why did not the nation itself, with its
overfiowing treasury take upon it
self the expense of the whole matter?
From the beginning il had been simply an
advertising scheme and the basis of q
municipal rivalry between great cities of
the United States. In this connection
Vest read extracts from magazine and
newspaper articles and commented upon
them as scandOl to the American name
and American attributes. He referred to
Chauncey Depew's speech before the
senate committee and TO his mention Of
the town of Peekskill as his birth place
n a.. lns,.
than that OF which St. Louis was the CEN
ter, and said DIR. Depew's modesty had
forbid him going any further to show why
Peekskill did not aspire to the site OF the
worlds fair. He tVest), suggested that
after that great act of parturition the vital
energies OF Peekskill were exhausted and
that she had remained ever since I'm a
state of innocuous disuetude. Laughter.
Mr.. Vest read from a book gotten up in
the interests of New York a poem, the ma
ture of which was a satire on Chicago's
wide extent of recently annexed territory.
The following verse is sample of IL:
The shades OF night were falling fast,
As o'er Kansas prairie passed
A youth OF presence Eaunt and thln,
But vast the shoes he travels IN.
He'd driven ninety miles that day,
Nor seen a shed where he could stay.
'Oh, where am IL" ai last he groaned.
A passing stranger softly moaned,
Chicago
The reading of these verses produced
great merriment i'm the senate. Mr.. Vest
Depew. For 1S months he Vest had
been engaged in the humble task of at
tempting To discover why the meat pro-
ducts of the great states of the West were
so depressed that the cattle raiser did not
receive pay for his corn, his grass, his
oats, to say nothing of time and atten-
ton. IL his constituents could go to Chi
cago in the great stock yards, amid the
believing of cattle, and grunting of hogs,
they would find what had become of
their cattle and how their profits were
lost to them, or II they went into
there find amid tine believing OF bears
and tine roaring of bulls lpresided over
by "Old Hutch; what had become of their
| wheat crops year after year. In Chicago
| foreigners could see all the emergencies
and perils of the coming future, and could
see the first strain on American institu
| tions based Oh universal suffrage. He
would find there restless and danger
Gus foreign population. For himself b,
| did not object that foreigners should see
that phenomenal city of the great West
but as senator he could not give his vote
for a bill creating an exposition in any
| city of the United States. He believed
this as a practical business man, that 4
came too soon after the great Paris expo
| sition. In his honest judgment that pco
| pie outside OF the cities engaged in thu
contest did not care anything about tn,
exposition. Had the time come when IN
| this country people had to he amused will
iary distress, of unjust laws and outrage
perpetrated upon them"
German offered an amendment To strik,
out the provision for a naval review ant
insert an appropriation of SJ0O,UO for I
memorial building in Washington as re
pository of antiquities OF the western
hemisphere. Rejected.
Cullom said Chicago would make TIN
fair grand success and manifested he
appreciation of the great honor conferre,
upon her. When the name OF Chicag'
was mentioned the senator from Missouri
hydrophobia. He Culloml did no
know what harm Chicago had eve
done the senator. The senate
had said his people were in doubt as 4
whether they would go to Chicago o
Hades and this raised the question as 4
But the people OF Missouri would he at tn
exposition by tens of thousands whcthc
the senator liked il or not.
Blair suggested that the city OF Hade
was a democratic city. He was opposes
TO the proposition of holding naval re
view as fostering the spirit OF war. Tia
accursed institution, the badge OF sayae
cry, Internal war. should be abolished
He offered an amendment empowerin
the president TO hold an exhibition @
public schools and review the publ
school children I'm Chicago; also a
amendment for the erection Of a statue !
memory of Queen Isabella OF Spain. Bot
were rejected.
Hoar moved 10 amend 10y striking ou
the provision for Columbus statute.
Cullom argued against the naval reyie'
aud said the purpose back oil TINS amen' %
something TO break its fall. Somethin
that might minimize the fair at Chicag'
The naval review is essentially a MOI
archial idea. The United States ought I
show the difference between a monarch
based on arms and republic based o
legitimate pursuits Of peace. After fu
ther discussion Hoar's amendment. stril
ing ont the Columbus statue. was agree