Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-17
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
The Worlds Fair PROPOSE
tiOn in the House.
A PRETTY FIGHT UNDER WAY.
Senator Butler Discusses His
COlered Emigration Scheme.
Sharp RejOinders.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, January 16.-In th'
House today. Mckinley, of Ohio, from
the Committee on Rules, reported th'
resolution for the appointment of com
mittee on the Worlds Fair, to consist o
twelve members, which committee shall
within three days, report q plan by
which the House can determine the site
of the proposed fair, and subsequently
report bill providing for the fair.
Cannon, of Illinois, the minority o.
the committee, reported a substitute
resolution as follows:
WHEREAS, On the 18th and goth days
of December, and at other times, the
House referred to the Committee on
Foreign Affairs divers bills, petitions
and memorials touching the projected
Worlds Fair of 1892, thereby giving full
jurisdiction to that committee of the
whole subject-matter, and said commit.
tee has given exhaustive consideration to
the same.
Resolved, That the Committee on
Foreign Affairs be instructed to report q
resolution providing the method OF
selecting the locality OF the Worlds Fair
in 1892, by vote of the House OF Repre-
sentatives. First, whether said fair
shall be held east or west of the
Allegheny mountains; second, the eelec.
tion Of the place for the location of said
fair. After such vote shall have been
taken. the committee at the earliest pos
sible day shall report bill providing for
a Worlds Fair in 1892, to be held at the
place selected, as provided above.
Hit, Of Illinois, Chairman of the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, favored
the substitute resolution.
Morrow, of California, did the same.
Hatch, of Missouri, favored the ma.
iority resolution. He said that prior to
the appointment of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, gentlemen representing
the competing cities had entered into a
compact that special committee should
be created. He asked that the agree
ment be carried out.
Frank, of Missouri, strongly advocated
the majority report.
Springer, of Illinois, denied that there
had been any compact between the rep
resentatives of the competing cities. 1t
was true that they had agreed to request
the Speaker to call a meeting of the Com
mittee on Rules, in order to create
special committee. The only intention
of that agreement was that the commit.
tee might cit during the holiday recess.
Mr.. Springer denied the right of any gen.
tlemen to meet in the hotel psrlors and
make compact to bind the members of
the House.
MIR. Hatch replied that if the repre-
of Chicago had not intended to
keep the compact, they should never
have invited honorable men to meet
them.
Mr.. Springer asserted that the friends
of Chicago had done just what they
agreed to do in every respect.
McCreary, of Kentucky, Chapman, of
Michigan, and Hooker, of Mississippi,
spoke in favor Of the minority report.
Payne, of New York, and Flower, of
New York, argued for the majority re.
port.
Hopkins, of Illinois, opposed the crsa
ton of special committee, and called
attention to the fact that there we're two
New York members on the Committee
of Foreign Affairs.
Turner, of New York, strongly opposed
Cannon's proposition that the House
shall first vote on the question of locating
the site east or west of the Allegheny
mountains.
Cummings said all New York asked
was fair and square deal, and no trick
cry.
Spinola thought the friends of Chicago
had not acted in perfect good faith, and
he said the Chicago pill had been
slipped in before the committees had
been appointed. Adams, of Illinois,
denied that the bill had been slipped in.
Mason, of Illinois, favored the retention
of the Worlds Fair bill by the Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs, because he be-
lieved it would expedite the business Of
the House.
.Butterworth, of Ohio, argued against
withdrawing the jurisdiction from the
Foreign Affairs Committee, which had
been appointed without prejudice and
without preconceived notions. The gen.
tlemen from New York never wanted q
new deal until they held bad hand.
Cannon, of Illinois, said the great con-
test was between the coast on one hand
and the valley of the Mississippi on the
other, and it would be simplified if it
could first be decided whether the fair
should be held east or west of the
Alleghenies. The House, as was it's
right, had referred bill in
regard ia the Worlds Fair to the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs, which was
nearly ready to report. The object of
that cooperation Immediately after the
meeting of Congress was a special COM
mittee, and it was not an agreement
which would last through the session.
"We failed to get special committee,
and, the object failing, the agreement
failed"
Cannon then modified his resolution
by striking out the clause requiring q
vote to be first taken on locating the fair
east or west of the Allegheny mountains.
A vote was then taken on substituting
CaDnon's resolution for that reported by
Mckinley, and it was defeated; yeas lao,
nays 142.
Springer, rising to q question oi
privilege, said he had kept close tally Of
the vote, and his tally did not agree with
the official tally. Without impugning
anyone, he asked for recount. To the
surprise of the House the recount re-
versed the former result, and the sub
stitute was agreed to; yeas 1877, nays l34
Then much confusion ensued as to the
next step to be taken in the preliminary
proceeding. Many members contendee
that the next vote should be taken OF