St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-22
The Attitude of the Twins on
the Worlds Fair Puzzles
Statesmen.
If the Windy City Gets It
Northwest Trade Will
Suffer.
Congressman Carter Wants
to Stop a Federal Leak at
Helena.
Half a Million Dollars De-
manded for a Government
Building.
Special to the Globe.

special 10 the Gl0De.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-Last week
was a sort of off week for Minnesota
and Dakota legislation. The Silcott in
vestigation, the worlds fair and other
matters of supposed importance alb
sorbed the major part of the time of
congress. Committee work. of course,
went on, but little of interest trans
pied. The worlds fair business is
terrible clog on the wheels of legisla-
ton. and it seems now as though an
other week might elapse without any
solution of the problem. One thing
that few men have taken into consider
alton is the attitude of at least 100 men,
bers who are opposed to holding any
worlds fair, and will do all in their
power to defeat any legislation on the
subject. Hon. Mr.. O'Neal, OF Missouri,
was speaking of the attitude of st.
Paul and Minneapolis the other day:
why they favor Chicago" said he, lis
mystery to me. L would like to have
1t explained. as / cannot understand 1t.
They are commercial rivals of Chicago,
and if the fair were held there it would
be serious detriment to their business.
do not hesitate to say that the jObbing
trade of st. Paul would suffer a stroke
OF paralysis FROM which it could not re-
cover inside of two years. Surely your
people are not deluding themselves into
believing that foreigners going to Chi
cago to visit the fair would 90 any
further West. They look upon Chi
cago as the leading city of the West,
and once there they would go no
further. [ should think ST. Paul mer-
al Mt III III, 4
went so long as it did not go to Chicago.
st. Louis would be the most natural
place for them to favor, as it would do
them least HARM" Tom Carter, of
81 ontana, will introduce a bill at an
early date asking for an appropriation
OF 100000 for government building at
Helena. The United States is to-day
paying vast sum of money in rents for
its offices there. Mr.. Carter has been
trying TO get the board of trade to send
him an accurate statement of what rents
are being paid, but, like many other
boards of trade, it is
SLOW To TAKE ACTION.
and has not yet complied with his re-
quest. Probably $4,000 a year is a low
estimate, so that Mr.. Carriers contention
is that an expenditure of $780, 900 would
be an economy, besides providing suit
able quarters. The youngest-looking,
if not actually the youngest, senator is
Senator Allen, of Washington. He is
an old MinneSotian, having gone to
Rochester when but boy. He studied
aud practiced law for some time there
and married Rochester school teacher.
He is older than he looks, being sabout
fifty, although none would take him for
more than thirty-fve. He is often taken
for his Wife'S Son-nOt that Mrs Alien
looks old hnt fhaf M IOoI-,-
A prominent figure at Walker BIaine's
funeral was Maj. Walker, U. S. A, of
Helena. Mont. who happensd to be in
New York at the time Of young Blaine's
death, and came over with his wife to
attend the funeral of his nephew.
The Washington Post has been pub
fishing series of portraits Of the beau
tiful women of official circles. Last
Sunday it published what purported to
be picture of Mrs. G. K Davis, but
which looked more like a poor portrait
of Miss Eastlake, Wilson Barrett's lead
ing lady. No one would ever have rec
ogniZed it as Mrs. Davis. The pension
bill, as reported from the senate com
mittee on pensions, has lifted load off
Senator Davis mind. For many weeks
he has been devoting from eight to
twelve hours day to its consideration.
Consultations have been held, and every
one entitled to hearing has been
heard. The senator is now at work on
| the speech he will have to make on the
bill. A bitter fight will be in all prob
ability made against certain of its pro-
| visions, and he is determined to be in a
position to
ANSWER EVERY ARGUMENT.
His skill as debater will be called
out, and there is a chance for him to ex-
tend the already Uifip-Snrp9d rppufatinO
he has. If hard work will accomplish
anything he deserves to succeed. for no
state has congressman who devoteS
more time to- OF who takes more pains
with his work than the senior senator
from Minnesota