St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-18
ALL RIGHT FINANCIALLY.
Chicagoans Object to Being Done
Out of the Worlds Fair.

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WASHINGTON, March 17.-There was
another lively meeting Of the worlds
fair committee to-day. Messrs. Frank,
of Missouri, and Bowden, of Virginia,
were absent from the city, and Mr.. Will
son was engaged in the ballot box inves-
vestigation. AS consequence Chicago
temporarily lost two members favorable
to her, and the committee was tied up
so as to be unable to achieve any posi-
tive progress. The fifth section Of the
bill was the first matter under discus
sion. To this section Mr.. Belden, of
New York, last Saturday offered an
amendment requiring a positive guar
antee from the citizens of Chicago
OF a S10,000.000 fund. 1t soon be-
came evident that the committee
was equally divided on this proposition,
so it was passed over for the time.
When section s (Which leaves blank the
date for holding the fair was reached,
Chairman Gambler proposed to fill III
the blanks so as to provide for the dedi-
cation and celebration Oct. II, 1892, ana
for the holding of the fair in 1898. The
Chicago members had all along declared
that they were prepared to accept the
views of the committee on this point,
Justice to the foreign exhibitors, and III
view of the delay on the part of con-
gress in acting upon the subject, it
would be better to hold the fair III 1898.
Therefore, when the question was put
on Mr.. Candier'S motion. they retralned
from voting and the chairman found
himself alone in voting for the motion,
and it was lost. Thereupon the dates
were filled in so as to require
the fair to be opened April so,
1892, and closed Oct. 20 Of the same
year. The entire bill was then read
over and agreed upon, excepting section
5, which will be acted upon at another
meeting to be held tomorrow, when it
Is hoped full attendance will be had.
1t is probable that, if the Chicago men
go there in force then, they Will make
an effort to reverse the action of to-day
fixing the date for holding the fair. 1t
appears that Mr.. Belden was late in
getting to the meeting, and, had he de-
layed a little longer. the committee
would have agreed upon report to the
house this morning on the lines of the
subcommittee bill But as soon as he
took his seat he called up his motion of
last Saturday relative to the Sl0,0O0.000
fund. and there was an animated dis
custom The Chicago men insisted upon
the sufficiency of their subscription.
but Mr.. Belden wished to see
the subscription lists. The chairman
produced list of names, to which the
New Workers objected oh the ground
that the names were unattached to a
heading, and therefore that it was
worthless financially. The Chicago
men explained that this list was copy
of the original list, which was properly
headed, and had been seen by the chair
man of the subcommittee. The orig
inal had been taken to Chicago, where
it was in use by the financial commit
tee. This failed to satisfy the New
York representatives. Mr.. Springer re-
marked In a facetious manner that he
and Mr.. Hit would assume the ten
million obligation, and reminded
Messrs. Flower and Belden that they
had tried to bluff the house by the same
remark when the bill was under discus
sion. He insisted that the best finan-
ciers had said that the Chicago sub
scription list was worth IS cents on the
dollar in any money market, and wound
up with the declaration that Chicago
was all right financially; that her in
terests mainly were at stake in the fair,
and that she would not be done out
of il,