St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-18
CHICAGO is WORSTED
Location Of the Worlds Fair
Left to a Special Com
mittee.
Still the Windy City Leads
Any One of It's Com
petitors.
Statehood for Wyoming and
Territorial Government,
for Oklahoma.
Pension Commissioner Raum
Wants One Of His Depu-
ties Removed.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-The action OF
the house to-day in deciding in favor OF
special worlds fair committee, as
against the proposition to give the mat
ter in charge of the foreign affairs com
mittee, which was urged strongly by
the friends of eChicago. while natur
ally regarded as defeat fol
the great city on Lake Michigan,s is
generally considered as only the open
ing skirmish in the fight for the fair
The showing of strength made on the
question of reference to committee is
not believed to be an absolute test, but
1t demonstrated clearly that Chicago,
while not stronger in the house than
the otner three cities combined, still
holds fairly good lead on any
one OF its competitors. Some
OF those who voted in favor of the for
elgn affairs committee, it is known, did
so for reasons entirely apart from their
choice as between the four competing
cities, and some who voted for the Spe-
cial committee have Chicago as secund
choice, and would vote for it if their
first favOrite were
CLEARLY OUT OF THE RACE.
Notably among those who voted for
reference to the foreign affairs commit
tee, although understood not to favor
Chicago, is Gov McCreary, of Kentucky.
He has publicly stated III interviews his
preference for Washington. but he voted
with the Chicago men through
committee pride, very po-
tent factor frequently in congress.
Gov. McCreary was chairman of the
foreign affairs committee in the last
congress and is the Democratic leader
of the committee in this congress. His
committee had charge of the worlds
fair projects during the last congress,
and as he believes the committee
disposed to do justice to all the
cities concerned, he voted for ref
erence to his committee, though not
committing himself thereby to Chicago.
On the other hand, some members who
might otherwise have favored the for
e.gn affairs committee were Influenced
to cast their votes in favor OF a special
committee through belief that there
had been some sort of an understanding
among the leading representatives of the
conteSting cities that special non-par.
tlSan committee should have charge of
the matter. 1t was taken for granted
this evening that in the makeup of
this special committee the speaker will
give each of the four rivals two mem-
bers on the committee. while the chair
man will be as nearly neutral
as can be secured. 1t is expected
that the committee will eport
a measure leaving the question of choice
to the house. The committee will.
however, have one very interesting
problem to solve, and that is what rule
shall govern the house in its ballotius
on
THE QUESTION OF SITE.
1t was this which caused the friends
of Chicago TO make such vigorous and
determined fight for the foreign affairs
committee, of which Mr.. Hit, an Illi-
nOis man, is chairman. 1t is evident
that there would be a small prospect of
any conclusion being reached if all
four cities We're. permitted to be
voted for until one city had
secured majority of all the votes cast.
Under this arrangement the balloting
would proceed indefinitely, as it is
more strength than all her rivals put to-
gether. For this reason it has been
proposed that on each ballot the
city receiving the lowest NUM-
ber of votes shall drop out of
the race until only two remain. when
the fight will finally end with battle
royal between the two leaders. St,
Louis was opposed to this plan for the
reason that she has always considered
her greatest hope lay in the fact
that she was the second choice of mant
members of congress. Under plan
which permits the Mound City to
remain i'll the. fight as long as she de-
sires, her friends believe that she
stands a good chance of winning and
that she will receive many votes from
New York and the East as against Chi
cagO. New York and Washington op-
pose this plan because they prefer that
st. Louis aud Chicago should
CUT EACH OTHERS THRoATs
in their fight for Western votes and give
them an opportunity to secure all the
Eastern votes, and then come on and
carry off the prize, with the aid of
votes from the West. AS the fight
looked like Chicago against the field,
the Lake City for obvious reasons
preferred that some of the competit-
ors should drop out early and en-
able it to pick enough votes to
win. On this question of ''plan of bal
loting in the house" warm contest will
be made in the committee, but the loss
of the fight in the house to-day. it is the
general opinion, fOreshadows the
adoption of plan untavorable to Chi
cagO, though of course much depends
upon the composition of the committee,
which is as yet unknown. The
main hght-that over the location of the
fair-will then open up vigorously. with
Chicago probably IN the lead and New
York second. How it will end is
question harder to predict than the
weather has been during this most ex-
traOrdinary season. The talk on.
the streets is that the opponents of
Chicago will throw their votes to
New York. but the question arises. can
the votes be delivered? 1t seems likeiv.
that many of them can be, but it is ey-
tremely doubtful if this be true of all ot
them, and New York and Chicago's 8
chances may fairly be said to depend
upon the number OF votes Which can
be thrown TO the former in a fiyht
narrowed down to the two. cities.
New York unquestionably would prefer
that st. Louis should get the fair rather
than Chicago, and il the representatives
of Gotham find that they cannot win
With the aid of the votes which ST. Lonjsi
can throw, they may in return give the
latter all the votes they can deliver. l.,
which event St. Louis would be most
powerful bidder for the fair. Washing
ton is quietly looking on. saying very
little, but hoping that the coinniereiai
cities
WILL GET IN A sNARL
and finally conclude that the fair should
after all be held at the national capitol.
The preparations which New York is
making have convinced many unhe-
levers that the metropolis really wants
the fair, and this has aided hergrsatly