The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-06
WORLDS FAIR BILL
The Council Votes Fifty Thou
sand Dollars.
A VERY LIVELY DEBATE
Rather Lively Day in the Lower Branch-A
Big Weeks wotk in Prospective
Routine Business.
VERY LIVELY DEBATE

The one feature of interest in the Coun-
Gil yesterday was the discussion Of the
Worlds fair bill. 1t arose over the intro
oucuon of report and substitute submit
led by the committee on Worlds fair as
follows:
Your committee on Worlds fair to whom
was referred H. F. No. 80, a bill to provide
Tor the collection, arrangement and display
oil the products of Utah at the Worlds lair
and to make an appropriation therefor, re-
spectfully report the same back with the
recommendation that it be rejected and
herewith submit substitute bill in lieu
thereof. Respectfully.
MoRRELL, Chairman.
1t is entitled bill for an act to provide
LOT the collection, arrangement and display
OF the products OF the territory of Utah at
the Worlds Columbian exposition of 1898,
ana TO make an appropriation therefor. 1t
reads:
Whereas, the Congress of the United
states has provided by an act, approved
April 70, 1880, for celebrating the four
hundredth anniversary of the discovery of
America by Christopher Columbus by hold
Ing an international exhibition OF arts, in
onstrles, manufactures, and the products
OF the soil, mine and sea- in the city of
chicago, In the state of Illinois, in the year
1893, and
Whereas, 1t is Of great importance that
the natural resources, industrial develop
! inenI and general progress of the territory
OF Utah should be fully and creditably dis
played to the world at said exposition,
| therefore
Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative
Assembly OF the Territory OF Utah:
Section ]. That, for the purposes of ex-
I
eraI developments of the territory of Utah
at the Worlds Columbian exposition of
/ 1893, w. H. Rowe, Frank w. Jennings, E.
3. Critchlow, 2. T. Farnsworth, II. c..
Lett, Mrs. w. E. Maginnis, Edwin kim
ball, Richard Macintosh, d. H. Peery,
/ lr., George w. Thatcher, John Carter,
/ William Greer. A. G. Bishop, Mrs. George
Sutherland and E. H. Snow are hereby
! appointed the board of Worlds Fair man
ayers OF Utah.
! Sec. 2. The members of said board shall,
within thirty days after the passage of
/ this act, meet at Salt Lake city, Utah. and
organize, majority of which shall be nee
essary for that purpose by the election of
president, vice-president, a secretary
and treasurer. Here follows the duties
] Of the officers
Sec. 3. The members of the board who
are not officers thereof shall not be en-
titled to any compensation for their SER
vices out of the Territorial treasury, ex-
cept their actual expenses for transporta-
ton and the sum of 81 per day Tor sub
sistence for each day they are necessarily
detained from their homes on business of
SAID board.
Sec. + The Board of Worlds Fair man
ayers is authorized and directed 10 appoint
/ an executive commissioner and to fix his
salary, which shall be payable out of the
appropriation hereinafter made, and said
executive commissioner shall be authorized
I and required to assume and exercise, sub
iect to The supervision OF said board, all
such executive powers and functions as
nay be necessary TO secure complete and
creditable display of the interests of the
territory at the Worlds Columbian exposi-
ton OF 1893, and as the executive agent of
said board he shall have personal charge of
the solicitation, collection, transportation,
arrangement and exhibition of the objects
sent under the authority of the territory to
the Worlds Columbian exposition of 1893.
and OF such objects sent by Individual citl-
zens of the territory as may be placed by
them in his charge. He shall make a re-
port To the board monthly, and shall hold
Office at the pleasure of the board.
Sec. o. Said board shall have charge OF
the interests of the territory and all its
citizens, and the preparation and exhibit
ton at SAID exposition of 1898 of the natu-
tory, and OF objects illustrating its history,
progress, moral and natural DEVELOPMENT
and in all other matters relating to the
said Worlds Columbian exposition. Ii
shall communicate with the officers and
disseminate all through the territory al
necessary Information regarding said ex
position, and in general have and exercise
full authority in relation to the participa
ton of the territory of Utah and its citi
) zens in the exposition. Provided, how
ever that the work Of said board shall bt
, confined within the territory of Utah, ex.
cept where 1t may be absolutely necessary
for the members thereof to aid said com.
missioner at Chicago.
Sec. 6-The said board shall make a re
port Of all its proceedings and expendi
, lures to the next legislative assembl,
;; within the first ten days Of its meeting, to
gether with all the proceedings under thi.
act and vouchers for all moneys expended
by them.
, Sec. For the purpose of carrying GU
the provisions of this act, the sum of $50.
A 600, or so much thereof as may be neces
z sary, is hereby appropriated conditioned
, upon the same being drawn and expended
> by and under the directions of the person!
hereinbefore named as the board of World
fair managers, or such persons as may sue
! coed chem in the manner hereinbefo pre-
scribed, and not otherwise. The auditor i
: hereby authorized to draw his Warran
upon the territorial treasury for sue
t amount, or so much thereof as may b
necessary, upon the requisition of th
! board, signed by its president and secre
z tary, accompanied by estimates of the ey
+ penses and the payment of which tn
I money so drawn is 10 be applied, and til
e treasurer is hereby authorized to pay til
same, but no deficiency whatever, 70
: which the territory is liable, shall be Gre
i ated by said board.
: Sec S. This act shall take effect from al
after its passage.
I Peters Has in favor of adopting the r.
II port of the committee, save section l, Pre-
: riding that the legislature should appoin
!; the board. He thought $4,000, however
d was the correct figure. Doubtless tn
e business and mining men would ccntribut
/, considerable. There had been considerabl
d talk about the fact that the governor woul
e be fair in his appointments, but he was
u the opinion that the governor had ha
! plenty of opportunity to be fair before tn
time.
Evans did not believe in the substitut
s bill, because it had tendency to bring O
q political quarrel. The law under whiC