Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-18

holding said Exposition at the National Capt.
tai; any unexpended balance thereof, together
with the receipts over and above the expenses
OF said EXPOSITION. to be placed to the credit OF
the District of Columbia for the liquidation of
any Indebtedness Of said District
1t Will be submitted as an alternative propo-
sition by Mr.. VI. NJ. Parker who represents in
this respect the local Board and taxpayers of
the District of Columbia. l will confine nv
remarks to the Faulkner bill.
FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES
Our plan is based upon the idea that the
commemoration of this great event in Ameri-
can history is beyond the magnitude and dig
NIFTY OF any individual city. or private corpora
ton. and should be under the exclusive au-
spices and control OF the General Government
That If there is to be any departure from this
plan II should not be in the direction of local
but rather toward international management
under the joint auspices OF the governments of
the nineteen American sister Republics assiste
by Italy and Spain. which have an eunal in
terest Ill the history OF Columbus and his grand
achievements
That the two leading features of the EXPOSE
ton should be, first. the historic to comment
CRATE the discovery of America and its progress
during four hundred years, and second, the
cohtn'tTcidt. to lnaugurate an American he mis-
pherlcal policy based upon more intimate COM
mercial aud social relations between the several
sister nations of the New World which Column
been too little acquainted with each other To
emphasize this idea we have in the title of our
bill placed the Three Americas first and we
know from four years correspondence with
boards OF trade, governors. mayors, oranges
anu others that this Is the most valuable and
popular feature of the movement OF course
the rest OF the world is to be invited to partic-
pate IN the temporary exhibit during the six
months of 1892.
That the Exposition of the Three Americas
ghOnl1 md Ill. -,
IN the nature of memorial museum in honor
of the great event. We do not, of course by
using the word permanent" mean a perma-
nent exhibit OF perishable products attended
by an admission fee, after the temporary Ex-
position OF lS92 Is closed, but rather a grand
Continental Museum and other similar struc-
lures under Governmental control and free of
charge. to illustrate the antiquities history.
progress, civilization, arts, and industries of
America, both before and since its discovery
by Columbus.
That the American people. as a whole, are
both ready and anxious to suitably commemor-
ate the coming event. and are too powerful
rich, and proud to delegate National and
patriotic subject of this magnitude. and the
attending expense. to any State, city, or priv
ate corporation. 1t is the peoples celebration.
and they wish to pay for it themselves out of
their own treasury.
That the only proper site for the Exposition
Is the National Capital of the oldest and fore
most American nation.
ADVANTAGES OF THE NARoSAL CAPITAL.
The remarkable advantages of the National
Capital as site are fully commensurate with
the proprieties of the case, and your attention
is respectfully invited to few facts on this
point.
Washington is the city of the Nation and of
all the States-a city IN which the 90 900 600
people of the United States have an equal in
terest and pride.
1T Is as much the city OF New York Chicago,
and ST. Louis as of the District of Columbia,
and IN some respects more so. for the people of