Evening journal., 1890-04-22
PASSED BY THE SENATE.
The House Worlds Fair Eli
Approved.
CONSOLATION FOR NEW YORE
The Amendment Providing for Naval
Review at the Metropolis In April. 1898,
Becomes = Part of the Measure--No
Statue for Columbus.

IN New York harbor in April, 1898, and for
.he unwilling of statue of Christopher |
Columbus at Washington.
Mr.. Vest opened the debate IN opposition |
10 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 coerciye on the senate. The
fact that the city OF st. Louis had been an
aspirant as a site for the Worlds fair was
a post-mortem proceeding, and he did not
intend TO introduce ghosts 70 disturb the
Of the city Of Chicago He had
always opposed all legislation looking 70
an exposition in 1892, aud the law should
not be passed which called it into exist
enoe He did not believe that the people
Of the United States favored amy such eX
position The agricultural people OF the
country had neither time nor money to give
70 a national circus such is was proposed
1t had been said Of him in Chicago news
paper that he had declared that in contest
between hades and Chicago for the fair he
would support hades. AS Chicago news
papers never lied, it was unnecessary for
him 70 say ia 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 loca-
ton Of the fair it would be a very close poll
between hades and Chicago.
Chicago Versus Hades.
Jas 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 conscientious considerations which
"irdescent dreamsn He had been told
that the population Of hades was composed
Of similar material Chicago, besides,
was fun of trusts and combines, and the
the latest authentic information from
hades was that they were forming there a
trust on sulphur in order 10 bear the mar
ket He questioned whether there had
been anything in the whole contest for the
fair that elevated ordignifiel the American
character at home or abroad II the idea
was to illustrate the national life or the
four hundredth anniversary Of America,
why, he asked, was it not done in the name
of the people Of the United States without
contests and squahbles over loealitiesg
Why had the location been put up at auc-
tionf If il was 10 be a national affair,
why did not the nation itself, with an over
flowing treasury, take upon itself the ex
penses The whole matter he declared
from the beginning had been simply an
advertising scheme on a basis of municipal
rivalry between the great cities pf the
country.
The Millionaire and the Anarchist.
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 control the destinies Of an
exposition IN which the character and honor
of the whole people Of the United States
was involved In no place IN the country
were the extremes Of the national life 50
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, roaring life Of
legitimate business and all the unseen but
deadly methods which had come upon ouI
overgrown young civilization. If his con
stituents would 90 TO Chicago they would
discover in the great stock yards the reason
why the meat products Of the great states
of the west were so depressed, that the
cattle raiser did not receive pay for his corr
and oats and grass, and HOW their profits
were lost. In concluding he declared that
he did not believe that the exposition could
ever be a success.
The Naval Review Clause.
Mr.. German offered an amendment tC
strike out the naval review provision and
insert in lieu of it an appropriation Of
$500, 600 for memorial building in Wash.
ington as a depository Of antiquities of tbs
western hemisphere This was rejected
/ Mr.. Stewart opposed the naval review
amendment as he doubted whether thl
4
make a good naval display In 1898 Mr.
Chandler thought the naval review woult
be great benefit to the exhibition and
would give il a send of which could no
be as we'll attained in any other way. ThI
/ United States, he said, would not bl
| ashamed of its vessels at the review. Mr.
| Evarts favored the amendment.
A Chicago Advocate Talks.
Mr.. Cullom said the verdict Of the hous,
in favor Of locating the fair at Chicagi
had been obtained without undue influence
| without corruption, and without any specia
| struggles. There was no purpose on tn
/ part of Chicago other than to carry on
the very letter Of the pledges already made
On the other hand, Chicago would max
the fair grand success and would man
fest her appreciation Of the great homo
which had been conferred upon her Whe
the name of Chicago was mentioned, sal
| Mr.. Cullom, the senator from Missoul
(Mr Vest) seemed to be seized with a kin
Of hydrophobia. The senator had said tn
people Of Missouri were in doubt whethe
they would go to Chicago or hades an
this raised the question which place tn
senator represented, but the people Z
Missouri would be at the great expositio
by tens Of thousands whether Mr. Yes
liked it or not.
Senator Blair ON Peace.
Mr.. Blair opposed the proposition to hol
naval review as fostering a spirit of wa
and said that saccursed institution, infer
nal war, the badge of savageryn n-shoul
be abolished, and he thought this countr
strong enough to initiate the era Of peace
Mr. Blair offered amendments authorizin
the president to hold an exhibition Of th
public schools and a review of the publ
school children in Chicago, and TO provd
for the erection of a statue in memory
Queen Isabella of Spain. Rejected. Nj
Sherman differed from Mr.. Vest, believin
that the fair would be more than SHOW
Never he said chad a great national e.
hibition been held that had not been
vast benefit to the nation which held II.
, The Queen Isabella statue proposition wa
, opposed by Mr. Hawley on the ground tina
} there was a historical doubt whether Oh
queen really assisted Columbus in his gres
,, expedition.
DID columbus Discover AmericaS
Mr. Blair said there was grave doul