Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-23

or the National Commissioners
OF the Worlds Fair.
Secretary Window Asks That a
Halt Be Made.


Showing the Government Approprla-
tion VIII FAN Short at the Present
Rate of Expenditures Classification
Committee Report
CHICAGO Oct. 23.-President Palmer,
of the National worlds Columbian
commission, has received a letter from
Secretary Window il regard to the ex-
penses Of the commission The 5egre-
tary first states that Of the 81 500, 600
appropriated 100000 must be used in
the construction Of government build
ing, leaving 81, ,100,003 for other ex-
penses. For the fiscal year ending June
30, 1891, there is appropriated jointly
$500, 600 for the expenses of the commits
sion and the use of the government
board of control,
The government board has estimated
that it will need $50, 600, leaving $780,
900 for the use of the commission. The
secretary then shows that in salaries
for officers and other expenses the COM
mission has disposed Of $4,000 of this
$l50,000, and that the expenses Of meet
ings Of the executive committee now in
session and Of the meeting Of the com
mission to be held on Nov. 5 will bring
the total up to $4,000, leaving only
$40, 900 to run the commission on from
that date till June 80, 1891,
Continuing, the secretary says: "In
consideration of the foregoing showing
Of expenses L have hesitated as to the
approval Of the resolutions OF the COM
mission fixing the salaries Of its officers,
as described in Articles Is and l6 Of
your bylaws The act of April %,
1880, referred to, makes the secretary Of
the treasury and your commission joint
ly responsible for the proper and reason
able expenditures Of the sum appro-
priated by congress for the furtherance
of the provisions of the act 1t does even
more than that, for it imposes upon the
secretary the necessity Of exercising
proper discretion in approving the COM
pensation fixed by your commission for
its officers.
ut is fair to presume that congress
intended by this last mentioned pro
vision of the law to prevent the giving
of what might be termed unreasonable
compensation to any of the officers of
the commission. But in arriving at
this determination the secretary of the
treasury must take into consideration
the opinions Of this representative body
of men.
Salaries of OGicers.
at appears from your records, as
before stated, that the commission has
unanimously agreed that the officers
named shall BE- paid the compensation
president OF the commission,
$12 600; secretary, $4,000; director gen
eral, $4,000; vice chairman of eXecu-
tive committee, $1,000, employees in
offices Of secretary and director general,
$4,000.
"If were to give my individual opin-
ion on this subject, uninfluenCed by the
acts of your commission, | should not
hesitate to decide that the amount
named by your commission for salaries
for its principal officers is greater than
that probably contemplated by congress
in estimating the amount necessary to
carry out the provisions Of the act. The
amount OF money already expended,
and the expenditures in contemplation
by your commission prior to Jan. next,
contemplate so large an amount that it
presents an additional reason why
should not approve the compensation
named, for alone am responsible for
the expenditure Hou will observe that
your salary list for the years 1890, 1892
and 1893 will, without further increase
of employees, amount to @165,OO0, OF
about One-seventh of the entire sum of
money, outside of the cost of the gov
ernment buildings, which is fixed rs the
limit of expenditures growing out Of the
exposition
IL have grave doubts, in view of the
facts as herein stated, whether / ought
not to return the resolutions submitted
by Your commission for revision as to
the amount Of compensation to be paid
to your officers. On the other hand, |
dislike extremely. to set up my own per-
sonal views in opposition to those Of the
members Of the commission who are
more familiar with the matter at Issue
than myself. | therefore reluctantly
approve Articles !5 and l6 Of your by
laws, and beg leave TO suggest, in this
connection, that great care be eNer-
cised in authorizing further eXpendi-
lures, to the end that your commission
may not create a deficiency for the en-
suing fiscal year
Immediately after this communica-
ton was read before the executive COM
mittee, Commissioner Martindale of
fered resolution, which WAS adopted,
declaring that al standing committees
be instructed not to meet before the
next session of the commission unless
directed by the president, Five stand
ing committees had asked the exeCu-
tive committee TO meet, but none Of
them will be authorized by the presi-
dent
Classification.
The report Of the classification com
mittee in reference to the subdivisions
of departments shows that in Depart
ment A-aEriculture, agricultural ma
chinery and appliances, and forest prod
ucts-there are twenty groups, and
these are subiivided Into Ii classes.
Department B-Niticuitare, horticul-
ture and tioriculture-has SIX groups
and thirty. seven classes.
Department c, one of the most i'm
portant, Is divided into ten groups and
forty-one classes.
Fish aud fisheries are included in De
partment D. There are five groups and
fifty classes.
Department E-Mines, mining aud
metallurgy has twenty-siX groups and
l13 classes.
Department T, devoted wholly to ma
chinery, has ten groups aud seventy
two classes.
Department q, the grand division,
created for the vast transportation IN
terests, has seven groups and thirty
three classes.
Department II, devoted to mauufac-
lures, has twenty-seven groups and
thirty-three classes.
Department J-EiectricIty has if