Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-18
THE MONEY NOT AVAILABLE
North Carolina's $4,000 Appropriation 10
the Worlds Fair.


Special Dispatch to The Evening Star
RALEIGH, n. c., August 1s-A meeting Of the
board of worlds fair managers for North Caro-
lima will be held in a short time to devise ways
and means for the exhibit of this state at the
Columbian exposition at Chicago.
The above paragraph may read strangely &c
those who are aware that the North Carolina
legislature last winter appropriated, or was
supposed TO have appropriated. s25, 900 for that
purpose. However, the fact remains that un-
less the money necessary for this purpose 10
raised by subscription other than by the act
making the appropriation the state will have no
exhibit at the worlds fair. The reasons are
these:
The legislature supposed that at least eos. 900
OF the S404, 900 of the direct land tax refunded
to this state would not be called for bv thoss
entitled to receive il, and so made the follow
ing appropriation for the worlds fair:
10 carry ont the provisions of this act the
sum Of S25,000 or SO much thereof as may be
necessary is hereby appropriated. and the state
treasurer is directed to take il from the money
covered into the state treasury from the United
States Treasury by act of Congress entitled An
actto refund direct land taxes, from time TO time
upon requisition Of said board, signed by il
president and secretary and accompanied by
estimates of the expenses. to the payment
OF which the money 30 drawn is TO be ap-
piled"
Now, the fact is. this money is simply held in
trust py the state, according TO the act OF Con-
gress until at the end Of six years what IL left
unclaimed may be covered into the state treas
ury. The attorney general has advised the
governor that this money cannot now be di-
yerted to other uses, and so the governor has
addressed a letter to the chairman of the board
OF world fair managers. Besides il is evident
that nearly the who'd fund will soon be called
for by those 10 whom il is due. The treasurer
has paid out over S75, 900 in less than a month,
and the applications now coming in grow more
numerous every day.
In his letter to the chairman Of the board
(who, by the way, is Elias Carr president of the
North Carolina alliance Governor Holt SAYS:
Under the circumstances. 1 have 20 suggest
that you call on liberal gentlemen of the state
to subscribe to a fund TO meet the expenses Of
the board, and If any of this trust money is left
over it may be applied to reimburse them TO
the amount of the appropriation made by the
Legislature III you proper TO pursue this
course. will gladly aid you in any way can"
The governor has just received a reply from
Chairman Carr, saying that the matter should
have early attention, and will inform you OF the
result"
North Carolina will be represented, however,
If the patriotic men of the state have TO go
down into their individual pockets 20 meet the
expenses Such men Gov. Holt, Mai. Sted-
man, Julian 5. Carr, esq. and other men
whose pocketbooks are ample to back their
love of state will not suffer the old ccmmon-
wealth to be either unrepresented or misrep-
resented by curtailed exhibit on 30 important
an occasion.