St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-05
Drifts Into a Discussion Of
Matters Concerning the
Fair.
The National Columbian Ex-
position Commission Gets
Excited.
Campbell and Foster Hold
Forth on the Situation in
Ohio.
Pattison on Pennsylvania FL
nances--Gen. Alger Never
Said It.

CHICAGO, Sept. AT the opening Of
the National Columbian commission this
morning, communication from Presi-
dent Baker, OF the local worlds fair cor
poration, asking the cooperation of the
national commission in securing loan
of 100000 from the government for
the use of the fair, to be repaid out of
the first receipts, and resolution of the
executive committee of the commission
ENDORSING the request were read and re-
ferred to the committee on judiciary.
Commissi oner Tousiey, of Minnesota,
presented resolution to the effect that
the resolution heretofore passed for the
appointment of a committee to recon-
mend certain notifications of the tariff
law in the interest OF the Exposition,
be reconsidered and expunged from the
minutes. In speaking of his resolu-
ton, Mr.. Tousley said that the rules of
the treasury department provided for
the work which it was proposed for the
committee to do in the matter of the adj
mission of goods intended for exhibit
ton at the fair. This action OF the COM
construction; it had been pub
licly misconstrued as an attack
by the commission on the Mckinley
law. Furthermore. it would put the
commission at odds with congress, and
would interfere with its work in secur-
ing the proposed $1,000, 900 loan for the
fair. Commissioner Harris, of Virginia.
the author of the resolution which it
was proposed to reScind, said the reso-
luton was not aimed at the Mckinley
law: it would apply alike to the old
tariff law or to the Mills bill had it be-
come law. The resolution was en-
jPatx mol IA oh
simply to relieve foreign exhibitors of
unjust burdens.
After long discussion. the resolu-
ton for the appointment of a commit
tee was recommended by vote of 80
yeas to % nays, and it was referred to
the committee on legislation, after Com
missioner Waller, of Connecticut, had
made speech deprecating the political
turn. which the matter had taken in the
public press. He declared that no poll
tics were thought OF when the resolu-
ton was passed, and said that When the
Democrats got ready to fight the Nc
not under cover of an Insignificant res
OlutiOn.
A resolution, Dledging the commission
TO take up and consider the Sunday
closing question as soon as it should
properly come before that body, was
unanimously passed. The auditing COM
mittee presented its report, showing an
/ estimated excess of expenses by the
commission for the year ending July l,
next. over the appropriation of $23, 900.
In order to avoid this the committee re-
commend that the April meeting OF the
committee be postponed until July;
that the pay roll of the director general
be reduced by $4,000, and that the sal
aries Of s., 900 each of the president of
the commission and the vice chairman
of the executive committee be diScon-
tinued after Oct l.
Chairman Mckenzie, of Kentucky,
said that the report seemed to be aimed
at him; it appeared that there was a
conspiracy to eliminate him from the
commission. This was unnecessary, as,
in his own good time, he would elimi-
nate himself. The whole trouble was
that he had refused to sanction report
of the finance committee which he had
not had an opportunity to see. The re-
port was referred to the committee on
bylaws, and the commission adjourned
till o'clock.
On reassembling the judiciary COM
mittee reported unanimously in favor
of indorSing the appeal for S., 900, 900
loan from the government, and recon-
mended that congress pass the neces-
sary legislation. A long discussion en-
sued, and the report. on being put to
vote, was adopted, with only three neg
alive votes-Messrs. White, Mckenzie
and Hundley, of Alabama. Adjourned
until Tomorrow