The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-29
A GREAT BANQUET.
viscount oroks Says England Win
be at th . Worlds Fair.
mr.. GLEDSTOEE'S KINDLY WISHES
For Americas Future and the Pro-
gross of herr Great Resources and
Institutions Some Very Polite
speeches..-TIE Ee Committee Starts for
Paris.

LONDON, july 98.-The foreign com
mittec of the d olumbian Worlds Fair
ended its stay in England to-day in a
blaze of glory with luncheon at the
Savoy hotel. This luncheon was at
tended by company Of distinguished
guests seldom collected beneath one
roof. Over eighty guests were assem-
bled ut the luncheon.
The dining room was beautifully dec
Grated for the occasion with flowers,
plants and flags. Ex.Congressman But
terworth presided. sirRichard Webster,
the Attorney General, sat on his right,
and Mr.. Lincoln and Yiscount Cross
were seated on the left. Tho first
toasts, "The President Of the United
States" and "The Queer" were drunk
with great enthusiasm. Mr.. Butter
worth, Mr.. +. w. Peck and Major
Moses P. Handy made speeches which
were most automatically worded and
which were well received. In Substance
they neatly returned thanks for the
hospitality accorded them and clearly
explained the objects and interests OF
the Columbian Worlds Fair.
Mr.. Lincoln, in ahappy speech which
was heartily applauded, related in de.
tail the cordial manner in which Lord
Salisbury had received the American
committee when the latter called upon
the Premier in the foreign office and
explained to him the progress being
made towards laying the foundations
for the fair and the hopes expressed as
to seeing an exhibit worthy Of Great
Britain, in Chicago in 1898.
The United States minister also said
that ono stumbling block which had up
to quite recently been in the way Of
foreign exhibitors had been removed
when he was authorized to announce
that any provisions in the United States
alien act which could be construed to
operate against exhibitors in the United
States would be removed. Foreign ex-
hibitors, he added, were assured that
the United States would use every effort
to facilitate foreign exhibitors in being
represented at the fair.
Mr.. Lincoln concluded with the re-
mark: "Chicago has never yet failed
in any public undertaking and never
will.
The most significant speech made
during the banquet was that OF Wis
count Gross, Secretary OF State for
India. AS Viscount Gross is a cabinet
officer, and as he is honoredswith the
friendship OF the Queen, his utterance
upon this occasion is said, beyond
doubt, to have been authorized by the
government. The Viscount said that
he wished to assure America in the
strongest terms that England was
heartily and entirely with the United
States in this matter and that she would
do everything possible to insure the
best representation at the Fair, not
only OF England, but Of India and the
Colonies.
Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew expected to
be present at the banquet, but at the
last minute he was summoned to meet
Mr.. Vanderbilt at Vienna and wrote to
the committee expressing his regret at
not being able to be present.
The Right Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone
sent an autograph letter to ex Congress-
man Butterworth, in which the old
statesman said: II shall not, l hope,
transgress the limits OF courtesy in eX-
pressing the hope that those at least
who come after me may live to sec the
industrial glory of America freed from
every fetter and her unparalleled natu-
raj resources turned to the best ac-
count"
The foreign committee OF the Colum.
bian Fair starts for Paris tomorrow
morning.