The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-17

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Whereas, On the 18th and Goth days OF
December, and at other times. the House
referred to the committee on foreign at
fairs divers bills, petitions and memorials
touching the
| PROJECTED WORLDS FAIR
of 1892, thereby giving full Jurisdiction to
That committee of the whole subject
matter, and said committee has given eX-
| naustlve consideration to the same.
RESOLVED, That the committee on foreign
afalrs be instructed to report a resolution
providing method for the selection of a
location OF the worlds fair of 1892, by a
vote of the House of Representatives.
| l-Whether said fair shall be held east
OF west OF the Allegheny mountains
1.-The selection of the place for the
Location of said fair. After such vote
snail have been taken, the committee, at
the earliest possible day, shall report a
oil providing for the worlds fair in 1892,
TO be held at the place as above provided -
ON THE SUBSTITUTE.
Mr.. Hit, of Illinois, chairman of the
committee on foreign affairs, favored the
substitute resolution and testified to the
vigorous and faithful work which that
committee had performed in reference to
the projected worlds fair.
Morrow, of California, took the same
view
Hatch, of Missouri favored the ma
loflty resolution. He said that prior
to the appointment of the com
mittee on foreign affairs. the gen
tlemen representing the competing cities,
had entered into compact that a special
committee should be created. All St Louis
asked was that the special committee should
be appointed by the speaker, and that that
committee should contain an equal number
OF the friends of the four cities competing
for the fair. He asked that the agreement
be carried out IN good faith, and that the
MAJORITY REPORT BE ADOPTED.
! Frank, of Missouri, strongly advocated
the majority resolution.
Springer, of Illinois, who ruled the Chi
| cago faction, denied there had been any
compact between the Representatives of
competing cities. 1t was true they had
agreed to request the speaker to call a
| meeting of the committee on rules. in order
to create special committee, but that was
long ago, the only intention of that agree
ment being that the committee sit during
the holiday recess.
Hatch characterized Springer's argu-
ment as special pleading. The represent
atives did not know that the gentlemen
they had treated with were looking around
for a loop hole through which to crawl ont
of an honorable contract.
| Springer denied the right of any gentle
men to meet in a hotel parlor and make a
compact to bind members of the house
The friends of Chicago had done Just what
they had agreed to do.
McCreary, of New York, and Chipman.
of Michigan, argued In favor of the com
mittee on foreign affairs retaining juris-
diction over the subject.
Payne and Flower, of New York, argued
for the majority resolution.
FAIR, SQUARE DEAL.
Hopkins, of Illinois, opposed the crea-
ton of special committee, and called at
tention to the fact that there were two
New York members on the committee of
foreign affairs
Turner, of New York, strongly opposed
Cannon's proposition, that the House shall
first vote ON the question of locating the
site east or west of the Allegheny noun
tains.
Cummings said that all New York asked
was fair, So uare deal, and no trickery.
Spinola thought the friends of Chicago
had not acted in perfect good faith, and he
said the Chicago bill had been slipped in
before the committee had been appointed.
! Adams, of Illinois, denied that the bill
had been slipped in and wanted a com
mlttee appointed without prejudice, and
without preconceived notions The gentle
men from New York never wanted new
deal until they had bad hand
Cannon, of Illinois, saw that the great
contest was between the coast on one hand
and the valley of the Mississippi on the
other, and could be simplified if it could be
first decided where the fair should be
held,
EAST OR WEST OF THE ALLEGHENIEs
The House, as was it's right, had referred
bill after bill in regard to the worlds fair
to the committee on foreign affairs, which
was nearly ready to report. The object of
the caucus Immediately after the meeting
OF Congress, was to ask for special com
mlttee and 1t was not an agreement which
would last through the session. We failed
to get The special committee, and the OBJ
ject failing. the agreement fell Cannon
| then modified his resolution by striking
out the clause requiring vote to be first
| taken on locating the fair east or west of
the Allegheny mountains. A vote was
then taken on substituting Hammond's
| resolution for that reported by Mckinley.
and it was defeated-yeas 14O, macs 142
Springer (rising to precedent privileges)
said he had kept tally of the vote and his
tally did not agree with the official tallv.
Without impugning anyone, he asked for
a recount. To the surprise of the House.
the recount
REVERSED THE FORMER RESULT
and the substitute was agreed to-yeas 139
nays 1874.
Mason, of Illinois, favored the retention
of the worlds fair bill by the committee on
foreign affairs, because he believed it
would eXpediate the business of the House
Butterworth, of Ohio, argued against
withdrawing the jurisdiction from the
foreign affairs committee, which had been
given it.
Much confusion ensued as to the next
| step to be taken in the preliminary pro
ceeding
| Many members contended that the next
vote should be taken on Mckinley reso.
luton, as amended by the substitution of
THE CANNON RESOLUTION,
but the speaker held otherwise. and
stated that the next vote was upon sub
shutting the majority resolution, as
amended, for the original resolution re-
ferred to the committee on rules. The
vote was watched with intense interest
and when it became known at the end of
the roll call, that the resolution had been
defeated by tie vote, Springer, of Illinois.
who had noted in the affirmative, changed
his vote to negative, in order to be able
to move reconsideration. The substitute
was rejected-yeas 1873, nays 135.
Springer moved to reconsider, and Nc
Kinley moved to lay that motion on the
table. Pending vote, the House ad-
| iourned.
The secretary of the treasury trans
mitted to the House letters recommending
to increase the limit of the cost of public
building as follows: Los Angeles, $780,
900; Sacramento, s15O,OOO; Carson City,
New, $4,000. ~
German Surplus.