Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-24
THE WORLDS FAIR.
a Special Message From the Presidsas On
the Subject.

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HE MAKES NO SPECIFIC ACCOMMODATIONS FOB
WITHHOLD JUST AND REASONABLE fURrHHR
SUPPORT UNDER PROPER CONDITIONS.
The President today sent to Congress the
following message:
/ transmit herewith. for the information OF
Congress, the annual report of the worlds
Columbian commission, supplementary re-
port OF the same commission submitted feo-
ruary 16, 1892, the report OF the
board appointed by me under section 10 OF the
act of April %. 1880, to have charge OF the ex-
hibit to be made by the executive departments,
the Smithsonian Institution, the fish commits
sion and the national museum and the report
of the board of lady managers PROVIDED for by
section of the act referred to.
The information furnished by these reports
as to the progress of the work is not only salts
factory but highly gratifying. The plan and
scope adop ted and the site aud buildings Sc
lected and now being erected are fully com
mensurgte with the national and international
character OF the enterprise contemplated by
the LEGISLATION of Congress. The Illinois COR
porat;ons have fully complied with the condition
of the Jaw that 81 900, 900 should be provided
and the government commission reports that
''the grounds and buildings will be the most
extensive, adequate and ornate ever devoted
to such purposes.
Il seems, however. that from five to eight
millions of dollars more will, i'll the opinion of
the local board and the national commission
be necessary to prepare the exposition Tor a
complete and successful Inauguration. 1t will be
noticed from the reports that 1t was first pro-
posed by the local commission TO ask of Congress
a loan of S5,000000 to be repaid from receipts
and that the national commission approved this
suggestion. Subsequently the Illinois EXPOSE
ton corporation reccnsidered its action, and
determined to ask subscription of
a5.OO0.oOc. The supplementary report
oil the national commission seems to
approve this amended proposition. have not
myself that detailed information as to the finan-
cial necessities Of the enterprise which would
enable me to form an independent judgment
of the additional amount necessary, and am
not therefore prepared to make any specific rec
ommendation to Congress upon the subject. I he
committees OF Congress having this matter in
charge will undoubtedly obtain tull and ac-
curate information before final action. The
exposition. notwithstanding the limitations
winch the act contains is an enterprise to
which the United States is so far committed
that Congress ought not, l think, to with
hold just and reasonable further support, if
the local corporation consents to proper con-
ditions. Liberallty on the part Of the United
states Is due to the foreign nations that have
responded in a friendly way to the invitation
OF the government to participate in the EXPOSE
uon, and Will, am sure, meet the approval of
our people, The exposition will be one of the
most lllustrious incidents in our civic history.
transmit also certain resolutions adopted
by representatives OF the National Guards of
the various states, appointed by the governors
to attend convention which was held in Chi
cagO on the 9th of October. 1891, with view
to consider the subject of holding military
encampment at Chicago during the exposition.
The Commissions Report
The report of the Columbian commission
mentioned in the Presidents message is signed
by President Palmer and dated Chicago, No.
vember rs. 1891. A general outline Of the sub
stance of this report has been made public,
though Mr.. Palmer refused to give out the
report when he presented 1t to the President.
The report says that within the twelve
months intervening since the last report most
satisfactory advancement has been made in
every department Of the work and the sub
stantial results already attained not only attest
the energy and efficiency OF the agencies eR-
ployed in its prosecution in their several
spheres. but furnish as well the assurance that
the work Of preparatian will be fully COM
pleted within the period contemplated
by the act OF Congress. and that the
exposition will be inaugurated and conducted
in a manner worthy OF its national anu inter-
national character, and with success in its i'm
mediate and consequential results which will
certainly realize, If they shall not exceed,
the expectation and demands OF the American
people and stimulate them to greater efforts in
all that tends to the material and moral devel-
opment Of the nation and the augmentation of
Its substantial prosperity"
1t then takes up the question OF the EXPOSE
ton site, which, 1t says is exceptionally eligi
BILE and fully adequate to all demands Under
the head Of grounds and buildings the
statement is made that the work is well under
way and is being energetically prosecuted.
The various buildings are enumerated. "a
specific statement, adds the report, "Of the
dimensions and architectural designs of each
of these several buildings would in
volve too much of elaboration and detail, yet
it may. be appropriately noted, in this con-
nection that no feature is the magni-
tude OF the proposed exposition more
clearly emphasized than in the charac-
to be devoted thereto. which are generally
much greater in their dimensions and will
afford a much larger aggregated area Of space
for exhibition purposes than have ever been
hitherto erected therefor. This exceedingly
important and vital branch of the work Is
ton, and energy, good judgment and deter
mination, as well the practical methods
pursued by the directory OF that
corporation i'll its active and undated prose-
cutlon justly entities that body to the confidence
and commentator OF the national commission
and the country, and fully justities the conclu-
sion that the grounds anu buildings will be the
most extensive, adequate and ornate ever de-
voted TO such purposes.
The fifteen departments through which the
affsirs of the exposition are administered, the
report says. with one or two exceptions, In
active operation under the Immediate direc-
ton OF competent and efficient chiefs,
whose monthly reports show that they are
judiciously and economically administered and
demonstrate the wisdom of adopting this
method OF administration. 'Much," the re-
port continues, '.has already been accom-
plished in the line OF preliminary exploitation
and promotion. both. at home and abroad.
The efforts of the department of pub
liclty and promotion, specially charged with
this duty. have been well directed toward
arousing interest, anu what has been thus far
achieved may be accepted as the earnest of its
capacity successfully to deal with the subse-
Quent stages of the work, with the co-opera-
tive aid OF the several other departments, each
whereof within its own sphere is under the
regulations contributing largely thereto The
report then speaks OF the visit Of com mission
to Europe in the interest of the fair and of
the determination to send another COM
mission to European cOuntri.s not visited by
the first commission and special commis-
sion to Mexico, tho latter to defray
its own expenses. 1.-THE national com.
mission" says the report, desires spec
tally to acknowledge the valuable aid
rendered in the foreign field by the diplomatic
representatives of our government at the courts
OF the countries to which they are re-
spectively accredited and also to express its
appreciation Of the active interest anu hearty
cooperation manifested by each department Of