The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-18
THE WORLDS FAIR
Report Of the Subcommittee
That Went to Chicago
To Examine Into the Condition Of Matters
Salaries are too High and Expenses
too Great.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-Representative
Chandler, of Mississippi, as chairman OF
the select committee on the Worlds fair.
to-day presented to the HOUSE the report OF
the sub committee that went to. Chicago to
examine into the condition of matters there
in relation to the Worlds fair The report
says that in the expenditure of public
money, the powers assumed by the Worlds
Columbian commission produced confusion
as well as caused an unnecessary expendi-
ture of public money which had been in
tended by Congress to pay the expenses of
the government exhibit and not to pay ex-
cessive salaries to officers of the commls
sion. Provision" the report says, .shas
been made to pay the president, secretary
and director-general annual salaries of
$4,000, $4,000 and $4,000 respectively, and
also $4,000 to the vice-chairman of the
executive committee. Those salaries, in
the opinion of the committee, are excessive
and should not be continued Excessive
expense has also been incurred in the ap-
polntment of as large a number as lis
women on the board of lady managers, and
calling together the board when the duties
which will devolye upon 1t were not ready
for its attention.
The report says: "Your committee is Of
the decided opinion that the fair cannot well
be conducted to a successful termination I'M
der the dual management now in operation.
In consequence of the construction placed
upon the law by the Worlds Columbian
commission, the commission has exceeded
its power by the appointment of officers
and committees to conduct the management
of the fair in it's executive details which. in
n atofi IF 4 hal hale
to the Worlds Columbian exposition and its
officers. The commission was given quasi
vote power and not that of taking charge
OF the execution of plans for the fair From
the TACT that the commission is honorary
and without salary the conclusion is reason
able that their duties were not intended to
be exacting or continuous SO they would
seriously interfere with their private bust
ness. The duties of the commission may
be classed as affirmative and negative, ma
tional and international, preliminary and
continuous
The report says the progress in the pre-
paration of the government exhibit is as
great as could be expected, and the work of
the government board of control has taken
tangible and satisfactory shape Mention
is made of the allotments Of the govern
ment appropriation and the commission be-
lieves the exhibit of the government as
comparison with any foreign nation.
In order to carry out the suggestions of
the report, to place the whole enterprise on
more solid footing and to carry out the
evident intention OF Congress, the com
mlttee submitted joint resolution direct
ing the secretary of the secretary of the
treasury not to approve the payment of any
expense attendant on the meeting of the
national committee or the board Of lady
m ooar ra,.po 1
called at the time of the dedication and
opening of the fair. Nor to approve any
payment attendant upon the meeting OF
the executive committee, commission or
LADY managers, except such meeting as
may be held not oftener than once in six
months; providing for reduction of the
salary OF the president of the national COM
mission to not exceed $1,000; vice chairman
ofsthe executive committee, 81 900; and sec
rotary, $1,000; the president of the board of
lady managers not TO exceed IS, 900, secre-
tary $4,000. Also that the secretary of the
treasury shall not approve the payment of
any expenses of the national committee or
lady managers other than those before
ment toned, which shall amount to
more than $4,000 per annum. In
the aggregate the resolution appropriates
S3O, 900 for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1892, for the selection, preparation of ar
rangement, ETC., employment of proper per-
sons for the various governments. The
committee renews its opinion that the di-
rector general and his employees should be
paid from the exposition funds and not
from the government appropriation.
The report says it is not the intention to
recommend an increase in the amount of
money pledged by the government for the
government exhibit, but it does feel that a
larger appropriation than was originally
contemplated should be made available i'm
medlately as the time for preparation is
limited and funds are needed at once
Representative Perkins, of Kansas, to-
day introduced an omnibus bill to ratify
the agreement with the Occur d. Alene In
dams IN Idaho; Sisseton, Wahpeton aud
Sioux Indians in Dakota; the citizen band
of Pattawatomies and absentee Sheanes
and Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes in Okla