St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-22
Senators Insist Upon a Pre-
lude to the National Cir
Gus at Chicago.
Home and Foreign Hulks to
Maneuver in the Hapbor
at New York.
This Will Please Knick kerboek-
ers and Won't Hurt Any
body Else.
Jay Gould Proposes to Sue
Uncle Sam on an Over
due Account.

due Account.
WASHINGTON, April 21.-The senate
to-day passed the worlds fair bill, which
was passed by the house, adding to it
an amendment providing for naval re-
view in New York harbOr. Mr.. HaWley
called up the bill after the morning
hour. The only amendment reported by
the senate committee was new section
providing for naval review in New
York harbor in April, 1898, and for the
unveiling of statue of Christopher
Columbus at Washington. Mr. Vest
opened the debate in opposition to the
bill. At the outset he protested against
the assumption that the judgment of
the house in the matter OF location for
the fair was coercive on the senate.
The fact that the city of st. Louis had
been an aspirant as site for the worlds
fair was post mortem proceeding, and
he did not intend to introduce ghosts
to disturb the tranquility of the
city of Chicago. He had al
ways opposed all legislation looking to
not be passed which called it into eX-
istence. He did not believe that the
people of the United States favored any
such exposition. The agricultural peo-
pie of the country had neither time nor
money to give to
A National Circus
such as was proposed. 1t had been said
of him in a Chicago newspaper that he
had declared that in contest between
hades and Chicago for the fair, he would
support hades. AS Chicago newspapers
never lied. it was unnecessary for him
to say in mild and not too emphatic
way that he made no such statement.
What he did say was. that in popular
election among the people OF Missouri
for the location of the fair, it would be
a very close poll between hades and
Chicago. AS between these two localities
in such a contest he would be strictly
neutral. The population OF Chicago
was active, energetic, aggressive, not
troubled by those moral and conscien-
tious considerations, which late inter-
view has characterized as ''irldeScent
Dreams" He had been told that the
population of hadeS was composed of
similar material. Chicago, besides, was
full Of trusts, monOpOlieS and COM
bines. and the latest authentic infOrma-
ton from hades was that they were
forming there trust on sulphur in
order to bear the market. The water
supply of Chicago, he said, was defect
I've, and IN support of this statement ne
Herald, stating that instead of mag
nificent lake supply of pure water, the
only supply came from filthy aud fetld
creeks. reeking with the debris and
corruption of stockyards. He took
1t that the same paper which
had stated his position as between
hades and Chicago had also told
the truth about the water supply.
He questioned whether there has been
anything in the whole contest for the
fair that elevated or dignified the
American character at home OF abroad.
If the idea was to illustrate the national
life on the hundredth anniversary of
America, why, he asked, was it not
done in the name of the people of the
United States, without contests and
Suuabbles Over Localities
Why had the location been put up at
auction? If it was to be national af
fair, why did not the nation itself, with
an overflowing treasury, take upon
itself the expense? The whole matter.
he declared, from the beginning, had
been simply an advertising scheme, on
a bases of municipal rivalry between
the great cities of the country. Look
ing over and criticiSing the literature
which had accumulated in the contest.
he declared that if one-tenth part Of
what had been said by those cities
about each other were true, not
one of them should be permitted to con-
troll the destinies of an exposition in
which the character and honor of the
whole people of the United States were
involved. In this connection Mr.. Vest
read extracts from magazines andrews
paper articles, and commented on
name. Mr.. Vest went on to say that in
no place in the country were the ex-
tremes of national life so thoroughly
developed as in Chicago. There the
palace of the millionaire stood side by
side with the hovel of the anarchist:
there could be found the rushing, roar
ing life of legitimate business and all
the unseen but deadly methods which
had come upon our OvergrOWn young
civilization. If his constituents would
go to Chicago they would discover in
the great stock yards, amid the below
ing of cattle and the grunting of hogs,
the reason why the meat products
of the great states of the West were
so depressed prices that the cattle raiser
did not receive pay for his corn and oats
and grass, and now their profits were
lost. In concluding, he stated that he
did not believe that the exposition could
ever be success. 1t came too soon
after the Paris exposition: and, in his
opinion, the people outside of the cities
engaged in the contest did not care any
thing about the exposition. Had the
time come. he asked, when the people
of the country had to be amused in
their condition of great pecuniary dis
tress, of unjust laws, and was the
United States to follow the example of
those old countries which provided
amusement for the people in
The GIadiatorial Arena,
in order to prevent them crlticizing the
laws of the country? Mr.. Gull ON said
the verdict of the house in favor Of To-
eating the fair at Chicago had been OBJ
tained without undue influence, without
corruption, and without any special
struggle. There was no purpose on
the part Of Chicago other than to carry
out to the very letter the pledges
already made. On the other hand,
Chicago would make the fair grand
success, and would manifest her
appreciation of the great honor which
had been conferred upon her. When
the name of Chicago was mentioned,
said Mr.. Cullom, the senator from Mis-
souri,, Mr.. Vest, seemed to be seized
with kind of hydrophobia. The sena-
tor had said the people of Missouri were
in doubt whether they would go to Chi
cago or hades, and this raised the ques-
ton which place the senator repre-
ssented, Chicago or hades: but the peo-
-le Of Missouri would be at the great