The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-08
Worlds Fair Matters.


CHICAGO, Sept. THE national CoIum-
bian commission reassem bled this morning.
The report OF the committee on awards,
recommending the appointment of a com
mittee of eight to have charge of the awards
Of premiums. was adopted after being
amended 10 make the number twelve. and
referred to the judiciary committee to
frame rules and bylaws for its govern
ment.
Commissioner Mercer, of Wyoming. in
troduced resolution setting forth that the
bureau OF publicity and promotion had
sent out statement that there would be-
several theatres On the Worlds fair
grounds to which separate charge for ad-
mission would be made, and declaring il to
be the sense of the commission that only
one price of admission should be charged
for everything on the grounds. Referred
to the committee on judiciary
A committee of four was appointed To
prepare suitable resolutions touching the
death of Commissioner Bingham, OF Wash
ington.
request from the board of lady man.
ayers for permission to extend their session
for one or two days, was scceded to.
The committee on resolutions, touching
| the death of Commissioner Bingham. made
a suitable report, and, after adopting il.
the commission adjourned until 2 o'clock.
At the afternoon session resolution was
adopted instructing members of the COM
mission to labor with members of Congress
from their respective states to vote for the
proposed government loan of So, OOG, 600 To
the fair.
The committee on tariffs and transporta-
ton reported that low rates for visitors
and exhibits would be made by the railroads
of the country, and asked permission to
request from the railroads passes Tor the
/ ar Iolr
from commission meetings, thus saving
large items Of expense. The report was
| adopted.
| Tine committee on judiciary reported upon
/ the recommendation of the auditing com
mittee in regard to the prospective deficit
| in the commissions appropriation for the
current year The auditing committee
recommended that the salaries of President
| Palmer ana Vice Chairman Mckenzie
of $1,000 each be cut off; that
So, 600 be taken from the salary of the
director general and that the April meet
/ ing of the commission be postponed until
/ July, in order to avoid an expected deficit.
| The judiciary committee reported the local
directory had offered to lend the commits
sion the necessary $4,000 until such time
as the amount for repayment could be
secured from Congress, thus saving the
proposed cuts in salaries.
Commissioner Waller, of Connecticut.
opposed the adoption of the report. He
thought it would be undignifed and put the
commission in an embarrassing position to
/ accept a loan from the local directory. The
doficit would not occur in any case before
the close Of the fiscal year or June 80, 1892,
and in the meantime the commission could
apply to Congress for the necessary funds
Commissioner Massey, of Delaware, de-
Tended the report of the committee
A number of warm speeches followed.
Commissioner St. Clair, of West Virginia,
closed for the judiciary committee in favor
of borrowing the directory's money. He
said the auditing committees proposition
was to cut off the -chairman's salary.
but not the director generals, that would
be taken by the south as political move.
He hoped the commission would see its
mistake in such action.
Commissioner Butt, ST Clair's colleague,
who is Republican, objected to the init.
nation that politics had anything to do
with the salary cutting report Vice