Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-09-05
WORLD'SFAIRSNARLS
THE RESOLUTION TOUCHING THE
OPERATION or MklNLEYIsMs
An Estimated Excess Of xxpsusss sao sns
Desired Loan from the Govern-
msut--Sundsy Closing
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CnrcAeo, Lie. September AT the
opening of the sessions Of the National
Columbian Commission this morning
communication from President bsker. oa
tho local Worlds Fair corporation.
asking tho cooperation Of the nationai
commission in securing o loan OF $o.UVo'vw
from the, Government for the use OF tine
Fair, to be repaid out of the first receipts
and resolution of the Executive Commit
tee of the commission endorsing the re-
Quest, were read and referred to the Com-
mittee on Judiciary.
Commissioner Towsley, OF Minnesota.
presented a resolution to the effect tnat
the resolution heretofore passed for ta9
appointment of a committee to recommeno
certain notifications of the tarih law III
the interests of the Exposition be recon-
sidered and expunged from the minutes.
In speaking to his resolution MIR. Towsley
said that the rules of the Treasury Depart
ment provided for the whole work whicn
IL was proposed for the committee 70 90 III
the matter of the admission OF goods In
tended for exhibition at the Fair: This ac-
tion of the commission, he said. was ia
BILE to misconstruction. 1t had been pup
licly misconstrued as an attack by the
thermOre, it would put the Commission at
odds with Congress and would interfere
with its work in securing the proposed
81, ,000, 900 loan for the Fair.
COMMISSIONER HARRIS, or VIRGINIA.
the author of the resolution which it was
proposed TO rescind, said the resolution
would have applied alike to the old tariff
law or to the Mills bill had 1T become
law. The resolution was entirely non
political; its object was merely to relieve
Foreign exhibitors of unjust burdens.
After long discussion the resolution Tor
the appointment of committee was re-
considered by vote 81 yeas to rs nays,
and 1t was referred to the Committee on
Legislation. after Commissioner Walker, OK
Connecticut. had made a. speech depre-
eating the political turn which the matter
had taken in the public press and in tho
commission. He declared that no politics
was thought of when the resolution was
| passed, and said that when the Democrats
| got ready to fight the Mckinley law they
| would do it openly. not under cover OF an
| insignificant resolution.
A resolution pledging the commission
| to take up and consider the Sunday closing
question as 500 as 1t should properly come
| before the BODY was unanimously passed.
ESTIMATED EXCESS OF EXPENSES.
The Auditing Committee presented Its
report, she wing an estimated excess OF
expenses by the commission for the year
ending July 1st next over the appropria.
| ton of $4,000. In order to avoid this
the committee recommended that the
April meeting Of the commission be post
poned till July; that tue payroll OF the
director General be reduced by $4,000
and that the salaries of $4,000 each of the
president of the commission and the vice
chairman of the Executive Committee bt
discontinued after October lst. Vice
Chairman Mckenzie, of Kentucky. said
that the report seemed to be aimed a
him; it appeared that there was con
spiracy to eliminate him from the com
mission. This was unnecessary, as, IN hi:
own good time, he would eliminate him
self. The whole trouble was that he had
refused to sanction report of the Finance
Committee which he had not an oppor
tunity to see. The report was referred tt
the Committee on Bylaws, and the com
mission adjourned till 2 o'clock this after
| noon.