Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-11-08
WORKING A GOOD THING.
THE WORLDS FAIR LADY MAN
 AGERS FARCE.
How the Commissioners Worked in Their Mothers-in law and others Eela- tives--Divers Reports and
 Other Matters.

A Washington special dispatch to the Globe Democrat of October 27th says The Worlds Fair Commissioners have been called to halt in their reckless dis sipation of the Government appropriation. Secretary Windom recently allowed the payment of the extravagant salaries voted to various officers. He warned the Commissioners then that they had better check their gait. The warning was scarcely needed. Now comes a cool prop osition from the commission to put ll1 ladies on the payroll at $S day and travelling expenses. This IS teo much Tor even Mir. Windom's hberality. lie has drawn the lines and has refused to allow any such raid until further action by Congress. There Is something of story connected with this latest assault on the appropriation. When the Worlds Far bill was pending several prominent ladies of Washington addressed letter to the House and Senate committees. They asked that some recognition of their sex be accorded in the bill On his petition clause was inserted, for politeness sake, providing that there should be an aUXil- iary board of lady managers. There was little said at the time about this clause It was not provided how the lady man. dkClO SllOOANl OO NpHclANNtt C' 'AC' should be paid.
 After the bill become law the House Committee on the Worlds Fair began tc consider supplementary measures to de fine the number, pay and powers of the lady managers. It was agreed, however, in the committee that there was no par i tieular need of haste, and the matter was laid over until next session of Congress | But it appears that the Worlds Fair Com missioners have conceived that the bll which authorized a board of lady man
 agers might be construed to mean they | should furnish the spare ribs for the ! auxiliary board. Without waiting fol | Congress to legislate further, these Com missioners have appointed the board oi i lady managers. They have put on the board l15 ladies. Several ladies of prom | thence, like Mrs. Logan, have been chosen | to give a standing to the board, and the ] rest of the lady managerships have been | given to the relatives and personal friends | of the Commissioners. Two of these Commissioners from a Pacific Coast State have boldly named their mothers in law to represent their State, and one O
 these mothers-in-law does not live upoI the Pacific coast, but in New York. An
 other has named a sister, and so 1t goes The Commissioners have not only madt these personal selections, but have voted compensation at the rate of $S per day
 and travelling expenses to and iron Chicago on the 18th of November, have
 a good time, organize and begin to draw
 pay from Uncle Sam's Treasury.
 When the farce had proceeded thus fai
 MT. Windom sent word to the commis
 sion that he would not allow any draf
 on the appropriation for lady manager
 until he had heard from Congress. Iii,
 board deputized Commissioners Butts o
 West Virginia and Harris of Virginia t;
 come to Washington and labor with th'
 Secretary to change his mind They ar,
 still laboring. It seems the lady man
 agers are beginning to poster the Com
 missioners about their pay. The meet
 ing for the 18th of November has bee
 called off. By the time Congress meet
 the TOW over the lady managerships vii
 assume proportions, for there is certain t
 be lively protesting from many of tn
 States about the way these choice al
 pointments have been distributed to tn
 pleasure and profit of the Commissioner
 female relatives