Arizona republican., 1890-05-19
 THEY ARE THE PEOPLE. Coats and Zeckendorf the
 Lucky Men Who Will Represent Ari-
 zOna at Chicago. Duties of the Commissioners of the Columbian Exposition
 Alternates not yet Named.

The Worlds Fair commssionership plums are gone.
 Late Saturday afternoon, Governor Wolney, acting under instructions given him in a recent letter from Secretary Blaine, appointed George F. Coats, late mayor of Phoenix, as the Republican and William Zeckendorf of Tucson, as the Democratic member of the Worlds Columbian Commission.
 The act under which these Commis- sioners are appointed from each State and Territory, and from the District of Columbia, with eight at large, the whole to select site within the city of Chicago for the erection of buildings in which to hold the Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1892; to allot space for exhibitors; prepare classification of exhibits; determine the plan and scope of the exposition; appoint all judges and examiners; make final awards of premiums, and generally have charge of all intercourse with the exhibitors and with foreign nations. The Commission is further authorized to appoint board of lady managers with peculiar duties to be assigned hereafter.
 The Commission, in short, is to have a sort of general supervision and con trol of the whole affair, making it thus national in character, while at the same time the Fair is directly run by a company incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois, for the debts and actions of which company the United States government expressly disclaims any responsibility.
 The Exposition buildings are to be dedicated on October l2, 1892, and the show is to be opened for the reception of visitors not later than May l, 1893.
 The Commissioners are to receive S6 per day for their services upon such board, but are to be paid only for the days when they are necessarily absent from home in the discharge of their du- ties, and are to be allowed also their ac- tual travelling expenses.
 So soon as the announcement was re- ceived here that two Commissioners were to be appointed for the Territory of Arizona, politicians large and small at once began laying their pipes to se- cure the plums-to which common ru- mor had ascribed an unusual juiciness.
 Democratic politicians, local Demo- cratic politicians particularly, seemed peculiarly anxious to have their fences in good repair. Some of these gentle men, indeed, were not nearly so bitterly partisan as-well, as they had been and there was a noticea ble cooling of of other rancors that have been excessively violent for some time past
 The honor of representing the great Territory of Arizona in the greatest Fair Commission of modern times was prize certainly worth striving for.
 All sorts of pressure was brought to bear, accordingly, and there was talk of monster petitions that will now, alas, prove abortive.
 The appointments have been made quietly, without any great parade of trumpets, and the agony is over almost before it had begun. There can, how ever, be no cause for dissatisfaction with the appointees. George F. Coats is known to every man, woman and child in Phoenix, and has moreover a large acquaintance throughout the Territory. He is representative man in every re- spect, and will acquit himself with due honor to himself and to the people who send him to the com mission and will see that the interests of Arizona are taken care of at the Ex- position.
 William Zeckendori, the Democratic commissioner, is one of the largest mer- chants in the Territory and is also thoroughly representative man. In the past he has served repeatedly as chair man of the Democratic Central com mittee of Pima county, and he is there fore representative man of his party
 On the while, the appointments are excellent ones, and the people of Ari- zona can depend upon it that the Terri tory and it's interests will not suffer in the hands of Commissioners Coats and Xeckendorf.
 There are two alternate commissioners to be appointed, but the Governor has not yet announced the names of these gentlemen.