, 1890-04-22
CHICAG0'S CIRCUS.
The Worlds Fair Bill Passed
by the Senate.
Vest Leads the Opposition and
Quotes Poetry.
A Naval Review to be Held
at New York.

Reagan introduced a bill to repeal all
laws for the retirement Of army and navy
officers from active service on pay.
Plumb introduced a concurrent resolu-
ton directing the secretary ofthe treasury
to increase the treasury purchase and
coinage of silver bullion to the maximum
amount authorized by the act OF Feb IS,
1878. He gave notice he would ask for
its consideration tomorrow.
The senate then took up the house
worlds tair bill. TIE only amendment
reported by the senate committee is the
insertion of a new section providing for a
naval review in New York harbor in
April. 1898, and the unwilling of a statue
OF Columbus at Washington.
Vest spoke at length in opposition to
the bill.
He asked whether there had been in
the whole contest for the fair anything
that elevated or dignified the American
character at home or abroad. If they
were to assume a patriotic standpoint. or
if the idea was to illustrate national life
on the 400th anniversary OF America,
why was it not done in the name OF the
people Of the United States? Why had
it been a sort of auction between cities as
to which would give the most money and
entail the smallest expense on the gov
ernment2 If it was to be a national mat
ter, why did not the nation itself with an
overlooking treasury tax upon
itself the expense of the whole matter2
From the beginning it had been simply
an advertising scheme and the basis for
municipal rivalry between the great cities
of the United States. 10 this connec
ton Vest read extracts from magazine
articles and commented upon them as a
scandal to the American name and at
tributes. He referred to Chauncey De-
pews speech before the senate committee
and to his mention OF the own of Peeks-
kill as his birth place and as the center of
a larger population than St Louis was
the centes, and said Mr.. Depew's modesty
had forbid him going any further to show
why Peekskill did not aspire TO the site of
the worlds fair. He Ves) suggested
that alter that great act OF ~partunition
the vital energies of Peekskill were ex-
hausted and that she had remained ever
since in a state of innocuous desuetude.
Laughter. MI. Vest read from a book
gotten up in the interest of New York
a poem the nature of which was a satire
on Chicago's wide extent of recently an
nexed territory. The following verse is
sample of It.
- The rfnde-efaIght we're falling fast.
As DER n Kansas prnirie passed
a youth Of presence gaunt and thin,
But vast the shoes he travels in
He'd driven ninety miles that day.,
Nor seen n shed where he could stay.
"Oh, where am II" at last he groaned.
Chicago"
The reading OF these verses produced
great merrlmcnT in the senate. Mr.. Vest
lnsinuated gently that the poet was DR..
Depew. For eighteen months he (Vest)
had been engaged in the humble task OF
attempting to discover why the meat
products of the great states of the West
were SO depressed that the cattle raiser
did not receive pay Tor his corn, his grass,
his oats, TO say nothing of his time and
attention. If his constituents could go to
Chicago, IN :he great stock yards. amid
the believing of cattle and the grunting
of hogs, they would find what had
become OF their cattle and how their
profits were lost in them, or if they went
into the wheat pit at Chicago they would
there find amid the believing OF bears
and the roaring of the bulls (presided over
BY Old Hutch what had become of their
wheat crops year alter year. 10 Chicago
the foreigner could see all the emergencies
and perils OF the coming future and could
see institutions based on universal suf-
frage. He would find there a restless and
dangerous foreign population. For him
self he did not object hat foreigners
should BEE that phenomenal city OF the
Great West. But as a enNor he could
not give his vote TO the bill creating an
exposition in any city oithe United States.
He believed that 1t came too soou after
the great Paris exposition. In his honest
tt.I4n.a.f fla ..aA-I. --..l. II ~ III.
engaged in the contest did not care any.
thing about the exposition.
German offered an amendment to strike
out the provision Tor a naval review and
insert an appropriation for $500. 600 for a
memorial building in WashInton as a re-
pository of the antiquities of the western
hemisphere. Rejected.
Cullom said Chicago would make the
lair a grand success and manifest her APP
probation of the great honor conferred
upon her. When the name of Chicago
was mentioned the senator from Missouri
Vest) seemed to be seized with a kind of
hydrophobia. He (CulIom) did not know
what harm Chicago had ever done the
senator. The senator had said his people
we're in doubt as to whether they would
go to chicago or hades, and this raised
the question which place the gentleman
represented. but the people OF Missouri
would be at the exposition by tens of
thousands whether the senator liked it or
not.
Blair suggested that the city of hades
was a Democratic city. He was opposed
to the proposition of holding a naval
review as fostering a spirit OF war. That
accursed institution. the badge of saw
agery-infernal war-should be abol-
ished. He offered an amendment EN-.
PIONEERING the president to hold an exhibi
ton of public schools and a review of
public school children in Chicago; also
an amendment for the erection of a
statue in memory of Queen Isabella of
Spain. Both rejected.
Hoar moved to amend BY striking out
the provision for a Columbus statue.
Plumb argued,against the naval review
ment was that New York should have
that might minimize the fair at Chicago.
cal idea. The United States ought to
show the difference between a monarchy
based on arms and a republic based on
the legitimate pursuits of peace, After
further discussion Hoar's amendment
striking out the Columbus statute was
agreed to and the remainder of the
amendment for a naval review adopted
yeas 2S. nays 81.
Blair moved to add to the first section
a provision that no Intoxicating liquors.
wines or beer shall be sold to be used as
a beverage within the limits Of the expo
sition grounds.
Butler thought that matter might be
left to the people of Chicago. and his