Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-15
NOW IN THE HOUSE.
The Worlds Fair Committee Has Finally
Made Its Report-The Method
Proposed by Which to
Choose the Site.


WASHINGTON, February 14-The House
Committee on Worlds Fair to-day reported
upon the various measures referred to it. In
the report Chairman Gambler says:
The bills which were referred to the commit
tee for their consideration, proposed diherent
locations, and in the judgment of the com nit
tee, it was not practical to present one Dill
covering all the localities. They therefore beg
leave to submit the two accompanying bills as
substitutes for the bills referred to it. These
two bills are entitled: A bill to provide for
celebrating the four hundredth anniversary
of the discovery of America by Christopher Co.
lumbus by holding an international exhibition
of arts, industries, manufactures and the
product of the soil, mine and sea, in the city Of
-, in the year 1892, and a bill to provide for
celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of
the discovery of America by Christopher Co
lulnbus by holding an international e1hlpltlon
of arts, industries, manufactures ana Lne
products of the soil, mine and sea, at the Ma
ional Capital in lS92-the first of which IS In
tended to comprehend all that will be required
to successfully organize worlds talr IN
either New York, Chicago or st. Louis, and to
which such amendments as details could be
made, as the city selected may require, while
the second bill contemplates the SELECTION OF
Washington as the site OF the proposed Ialr'
and is likewise intended to meet all that is re-
quired for its successful location in that city.
The selection Of the city in which the ex-
hibition is to be held is left to the decision
of the House of Representatives and the fol-
lowing resolution is submitted as an equi-
table method Of procedure in the choice of
the same:
Resolved, That on the day following the close
of the debate upon bills reported by this COM
mittee, Immediately after the reading of the
journal, the Clerk shall call the roll of mem
bers, and that as each members name is called
he shall indicate viva voce his choice of the
place for holding the Worlds Fair in 1892 If
no place receives majority of the votes cast.
on the first ballot the roll call shall be repeated
until some one place shall have received ma
lority of all the votes cast
The report then concludes with the fol-
lowing expression of sentiment upon the
general project of Worlds Fair:
For years the people of the United States in
great numbers with enthusiasm and unanin.
ity, in various ways, by petitions, resolutions.
in the public press and through their represent
atives In Congress, have signihed their earnest
desire that the 400th anniversary of the discov-
cry of America by Christopher Columbus
should be recognized and commemorated by
this nation in 1892 They would have this gen.
Grafton record its grateful appreciation of the
genius and the courageous faith of this great
man, whose life and services contributed so
much to the progress and elevation of man
kind. and the people of this country and
the nations of the world should be invited to
participate to the grandeur Of the celebration.