, 1890-04-24
MONDAY.


was tho hill to provide for am additional
associate Justice OF the supreme court OF
Arizona.
Mr. Reagan introduced bill to repeal
oil laws ior the retirement OF army and
navy officers on pay.
Mr.. Plumb introduced concurrent
resolution directing he secretary of tho
treasury to purchase and coin silver
bullion TO the maximum amount author
zrd by the act of February q, 1878, and
gave notice that ha would ask tor its
consideration tomorrow.
The sente went into committee of the
whole on insertion OF new section In
the worlds fair bill, providing for a
naval review in New YORK harbor in
April 1903. aud tho unyeiling of statue
oi Columbus at Washington.
Mr.. Vest spoke at length in opposition
TO II. Ile asked whether there had been
IN the whclo contest for the fair any thing
that elevated or disniticd the American
character at home or abroad. If
they were to assume patriotic
standpoint, or II the idea was to illus
trntc the national lite on the iV0th ami
vcrsary OF tho discovery OF America,
why was 1t not done in the name OF the
people OF tho United States, without
squabblcs over localities2 Why had 1t
been . sort OF auction been the cities as
to which would give the most money.
and entail the smallest expense OH the
government? lift was To be national
matter why did not the nation itself.
with its oycrtiowing treasury, take
upon itself the expense Of the whole
mn,ter' From the beginning 1t had
been simply an advertising scheme and
the basis OF municipal rivalry between
tho great cities of tho United States.
In this connection, Mr.. Vest read OK
tracts FROM magazine and newspaper
articles and commented upon thcm as
scandalous to the American name and
American attributes. lie referred To
Chuuncey NJ. Depew's speech before the
senate committee and to his mention
OF the town of peekskil as
his birthplace, and as a center OF n
larger population than TINT Of which st.
Louis was the center, md said that Mr..
Dcpew's modesty forbade Inn from going
any further to show why Peekskill did
not aspire to the site of the worlds fair.
lie tNesD suggested that after that great
act Of parturltion the vital energies of
Pcekskill were exhausted, and that she
had remained ever since In state OF
innocuous desuetude. Laughter.
Mr.. Vest then read from book gotten
up in the interest of New York, a poem,
the nature OF which was n satire on
| Chicagos wide extent OF recently an
nexed territory. The following verses
nre n sample of II!
THE shades Of night were falling fast
/ As DER kunsas prairie passed
| \ youth OF presence gaunt and thin,
/ But vast the SHOES he travelled In.
"He'd driven ninety miles that day,
I Nor seen shed whore he could stay.
I oh, where am ! ? ~ last he groaned.
I \ passing stranger softly moaned-
Chicago. "
The reading OF these verses produced
great morriment Ia the senate.
Mr., Vest insinunled gently that tho
poet was Mr.. Dcpcw.
For eight months he tNesD had been
engaged in the humble tnsk OF attempt
ing to discover why the meat product OF
the great states Of the West were 50 die.
pressed that the cattle raiser did not re-
ceivc paw for his corn. his grass, and his
oats, to say nothing of his time and at.
tention. II his constituents could go to
Chicago, IN the great stockyards, amid
the believing Of cattle and the grunting
of hogs, they would lind what had be
come OF their cattle and how their profits
were lost to them, OF, IL they went into
the wheat pit at Chicago, they would
there find, amid the bellowiEg OF thc
beurs aud the roaring of the
bulls presided over by "old
Hutch - what had become oil
their wheat crops year after year
In Chicago the foreigner could see all tnt
en- rrgehcies aud perils OF the coming
future and could see the first strain oi
American institutions based on universal
suffrage. lie would lind there rest
less and dangerous foreign population
For himself he did not object that Tor.
eirncrs anunld see that phenomena
city of the great W est. hut as q senator
he could not give his vote for a hi
creating an exposition IN any city OF tn,
United States. lie believed as "a pueli
cal business man that 1t came too sooi
after the great Paris exposition, In hi'
honest judgement, the people outsid,
the cities engaged IN the contest did MOI
caro- anything about the exposition
try the people had to be amused will
, shows in their condition %
, great pecuniary distress. Of unjust law,
and of outragcs pcrpetrated upon them
Mr.. German Offered an amendment t,
strike out the provisions Tor nava
reviews and insert appropriation o
, $500. 900 for memorial building IL
Washington rs u repository of anliqui
) ties oil the Western hcmispherei re
Iected.
, Mr.. Culiom said that Chicago woul,
, make the fair grand success and mani
a fest her appreciation OF the great homo
; conferred upon her When the name o
Chicago WAS mentioned, the senator from
= Mi sonri Vest segme,i 10 be seized with
Z y kind OF hydrophobia. lie tCIIllom
. did not know what harm Chicago la,
s ever done the senator. The senator ha,
4 said that his people was Ia doub
/ as TO whether they would go to Chicag,
or HaJes. aud this raised tho question
o watch place the gentlemen represented
4 But the peo,ilo of Missouri would 10 al
tiio expedition by tens of thousand
whether the senator liked II or not.
MIR. Blair suggested that the city q
Hndcs WAS democratic city. Alt
Blair was opposed TO the proposition q
holding a naval review. as fostering
spirit Of war. That acoursed institution
!. and badge OF saysgery. internal wal