Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-23
MUST HAVE MONEY.
t Is a Ground Hog Case with
the Big Fair.
AND IT MUST BE FIVE MILLIONS.

SIM allsr Amount Will Not Do-Chfcago
Does 81, 900, 900 Better Than HerAgree-
ment and Uncle Sam Mast Loosen His
Purse Strings-The Fair Fund Waxing
Iowa Sanguine Telegram from
WAshington-The Labor Question
Bonney's Great Educational Enterprise
Notes of the Big Show.
CHICAGO, July 23.-Dispatches from
Washington yesterday announcing that
the conference committee might compro-
mise on a smaller amount Of money for
the fair caused many directors to shake
their heads solemnly. at will never do to
compromise" they said. "In asking for
IS, ,OoO, 600 we put our figures low enough,
and to take less would simply mean that
the people of Chicago would have to raise
the difference in addition to the 81 0O0, 600
or So, ,OOO, coo they will have to secure after
getting $5,O0O.0OO from the government"
Friends of the fair in congress were urged
yesterday to stand out for the full amount
and to decline all overtures to compromise.
Funds Arc . Necessity.
The truth is that the directors must
have the money. They cannot get along
without it unless they adopt extreme
meas ures. 1t is too late to issue any more
city bonds in aid of the fair, and it is also
doubtful whether a proposition to bond
the city to the extent of another 8, ,0O0, 900
would succeed. The feeling is general
that Chicago has already done as much
both as q municipality and through her
citizens, as could be expected of any city.
The directors say that in raising $1l ,0OO,-
900 for the fair they have performed a
greater feat than was ever performed IN
connection with an international exposi-
and hay- do ink hair hrrr,1 Ion
should be increased.
Couldn't Raise 1t by Subscription
1t would be an absolute impossibility 70
raise the additional s., 600 600 or more by
popular subscription. Some OF the larger
stockholders might double their holdings,
but Treasurer Seeberger's clerks could not
take in money fast enough in this way TO
meet the enormous outlay that will be
necessary between now and the dedlca-
tion ceremonies in October. The build
ings and grounds of the exposition are
supposed to be finished by that time.
Getting to the Bottom of the Pile
The con tractors are rushing the work
along at very rapid gait, and the con-
tractors must be paid regularly or their
army of 5000 laborers will quit At the
present rate of expenditures Secretary See
berger will see the bare floor of his strong
vault in very few weeks, perhaps before
Septem Der l. At that time every depart
ment will be working under pressure, and
the delay of even a day would be impos-
sible.
Sanguine of the Bill Passing.
A telegram from Washington to The
Herald says: monday next the Worlds
fair battle will be fought over again in the
house and the S5,O0O,OOo appropriation
will be agreed to by majority of more
than twenty votes. Early in the aft
ernoon of that day the conferrees are ex-
pc cted to report inability to agree with
the conferrees on the part of the senate
and to ask instructions to persist in their
disagreement. Durborow will move as
an amendment that the house recede from
its position, and this motion will prevail
The majority in its favor can scarcely fail
below twenty, and 1t may rise above
thirty"
Settled the Labor Question.
Another telegram says that General St.
Clair over his own signature has positive
ly denied that Devlin, Hayes or Wright
ever made a proposition 10 him looking in
the least to making money out of the fair.
The conduct of the knights, he says, was
entirely honorable from first to last. The
labor question has been settled by agree
days work on the part Of the workmen,
that none but citizens, and those who
have bona fide declared their intentions
shall be employed. and that labor disputes
or differences should be al bitrated, with
some other minor points.