Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-21

/ president o. the United States shall re-
/ ccive satisfactory evidence that $40, ,000,-
COZ have been raised or provided for to
! successfully carry on this fair before
/ proclamation IS made and invitations ex-
tended to foreign nations.
/ Section II apDropriates $1,000 to be
expended during the fiscal year ending
June So 1891, in the place OF Sl00, 900,
which was named in the original bill as
/ it is estimated that that amount is all
that will be required during that period
for the expense of admission of foreign
| goods for exhibition.
Section l6 limits the cost of the gov
ernment buildings to the sum of $780,
600, and appropriates Sl00,00H of that
amount for the remainder of this fiscal
year and for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1891.
Only 81, ,50O,O From Uncle Sam.
Section II appropriates 100000 for
the purpose Of paying the expenses of
the government exhibit, maintenance of
its buildings and for the expenses of the
commission and other contingent ex-
penses, all subject to the approval of the
secretary of the treasury of the United
States for the remainder of this fiscal
year, and for the expenditure of the
government hereinafter, for all purposes
connected with the exposition, to the
sum Of 81, 500, 900.
Section l8 provides for the payment of
the actual expenses of the commissions.
ers while necessarily absent from their
homes on the business Of the commits
sion, and for the compensation of the
commission, and for the compensation
of the officers of the commission, subject
to the approval of the secretary of the
treasury.
Investigations in Paris.
In submitting the letter of Lyman J..
Gage chairman of the finance commit
tee of Chicago, which will be published
in the appendix to this report. this com
mittee would call attention to the fact
that the city of Chicago and the state Of
Illinois have, for an extended period,
indicated their desire that there should
be a worlds fair held in the United
States to commemorate the four huIf-
dredCh anniversary of the discovery of
America by Christopher Columbus, and
that the city of Chicago should be Sc
lected as the site. In September, 1899,
they organized a committee and se-
lected a number of experienced gentle
men, together with an engineer to visit
Paris for the purpose of studying the
plans and operations of the Paris uni
versal exposition of that year, in order
to be thoroughly prepared to lnaugurate
without delay a National exposition by
ayailing themselves of the experience of
those connected with that of Paris. The
Investigations there made enable the
city OF Chicago TO more intelligently
comprehend the magnitude of the un-
dertaLing, and to estimate the cost, the
scope and tie requirements for the sue
Ccs5ful conduct of it, and to commence
their active preparations for the site and
the buildings more promptly than could
have been possible excepting for their
enterprise and forethought
The committee would call attention to
the fact that the citizens of Chicago offer
q larger and more generous contribution
to this nation for the Inauguration of
National and international exposition
than was ever profered by private citi-
2ens before, and larger than any ever
offered by any foreign government or
city in the great international eXpositions
previously held. In the financial plan
of the great Paris exposition, which Is
now claimed to have been the most sue
cessful in the world, an agreement was
commerce, the prefect of the Seine, rep
resenting the city of Paris, and the gov
ernor general of the credit foncier, in be-
half of the Guarantee ASSOCIATION, stipu-
lating that the contributions should ag-
gregate $1,000 000 The city of Chicago
guarantees to satisfy the commission
that it will provide, without the aid of
the National government, the sum of
$4,000. 900. The committee would also
call attention to the fact that the esti-
mated cost, for all purposes, for the
Paris exposition was 50, 100000, with q
reserve fund of $500, 900 to provide for
contingencies and for possible moditica-
tions in the original plans, and it be-
lieges that the Sl0,000,0 900 with the site,
to be provided by the city of Chicago, is
ample forall purposes for fair in this
country.
The Minority Report.
The minority report, signed by Messrs.
Belden of New York, Hatch of Missouri,
and Flower of New York, is as follows:
"The Undersigned members of the
worlds fair select committee, respect
fully dissent from the foregoing report
and it's conclusions. We believe that
the following resolution, which we voted
in favor of in committee, shonld have
been adopted:
RESOLVED, That when guarantee fund
of 100000 shall be secured by the citi-
z1ns of Chicago, the sufficiency and legality
of which shall be satisfactory to this COM
mittee, we report the pending bill with
such amendments as the committee may
agree upon.
Chicago Preparing to Elect the Directors
CHICAGO, March 21.-The executive
committee of citizens in charge of the