The morning call., 1891-05-04
A DUAL EXHIBIT.

1t seems to BIZ settled that California is to
make dual exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
There will be one exhibit in the main build
ings under the rule OF classification adopted
by the managers, and another in a separate
building under the general direction Of the
State Commissioners. All articles entered
for competition Will be in the main build
ings. The separate or State exhibit will be
for show purposes only. A dual display
under such conditions seems to us a mis-
take. The mass of visitors 10 the fair will
not go near the State exhibit. They will
find California represented after fashion
in the main buildings and viii take i: for
granted that what the State has to show
III be entered in the regular manner. 1t
is not expected that the 100000 OF people
who will visit the fair will trouble them
selves about the why's and wherefores of a
dual exhibit. The greater part Of these
visitors viii remain in Chicago but one,
two or three days. They viii not devote
their time entirely to the dual exhibits of
California. As yet the State is not Of ever
shadowing Importance. Its products viii
doubtless receive. a fair share of atten-
tioD, but we must net expect to be
rs large in others eyes as in our own.
There does not appear to be way by which
the $780, COO appropriated by the Statecan
be used to promote the interests Of the State
so Tar as such interests depend upon the
competitive exhibit. II may seem desirable
thatt should be so used, but the eOnstitu-
ti0nal inhibitions stand squarely against it.
Platform pledges may be disTegarded, but
there is a way to enforce the provisions of
the constitution. The Chronicle does not
seem TO have any clear idea Of the conse-
. quences. of throwing California into the gen.
eEal exhibit 1t steaks as if The pTOpo sition
TO have a State exhibit would be abandoned
But in that case what becomes of the appro-
/. prlalion? Does the Waterman Commissioner
imagine that the S3G0.0C0 will be thrown
into the General Fund to be used as the Fair
Managers shall see ftp Commissioner Nc
Donald, who has recently returned from
Chicago, says that whatever Influence the
+ Waterman Comm isSi0ner possessed was
used against collective exhibit. Mr. de
] Dung is represented as having assured the
Fair Managers that a collective exhibition
WAS not desired on this Coast The
idea is lodged in the De Young brain
somehow that the Appointment Of Wal
+ Ter S. MAXWELL as the head of the
Horticultural Department of the fair will
Ell able the National Commission to handle
the State appropriation. But as the State
Commissioners were appointed to handle
the State appropriation and sill be held re-
spOnsibl for the use made of it. the ap-
pointment of Mr. Maxwell does not seem to
have any bearing Oh the constitutional
question. Nh. Maxwell is not State Com
missioner. He IS an apr0in,ee of the Ma
ti0Gal Commission and will Of course re-
port to tim. The people Of Calf rnia
have taken Sufficient interest in tie fair to
acQuiesce in lie Appropriation of s3OO,U0O to
make our exhibit there sufficiently notable
TO attract attention. There would perhaps
have been more interest felt If the plan Of
exhibit had been better understood. The
constitutional Inhibition Of an appropria-
ton, TO be thrown into the General Fund
was of'couTse known TO every body, possibly
excepting tie Waterman Commissioner
How the appropriation was to be used with
out violating provision of the Constitution
except in the way Of a collective exhibit,
dlstintiyely Californian. and under the direc-
ton of the State Commissioners, is Ques-
ton tn at has not yet been answered.