Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-05-12
NUMBER 49,


Here Is the Chicago Times account o
the division Of the directory's Fedora
Legislation Committee into ''loan men
and appropriation or nothing men.
and Of the sweet compromise scheme
to strike Congress for loan and al
appro oriatIon too:
The loan men are President Baker
and NJ. OdeIl. The a. or N men
are MessI's. Gage. Walker. and Waller.
Mr.. Butterworth. a usual, i waiting
TO see wich side Of the fence the turkey
falls on before announcing his position.
I Mr.. Gage and Judge Walker are
hopeful that they may still have good
chance for grant outright. failing in
which they are not certain whether
they would accept a loan or not.
Messrs. Parker and Odell don't think
there Is any chance whatever of getting
AN appropriation. but hope to get a
loan. II they borrow from Congress
rather than from local money loancrs.
they will save the Tx position Com pany
an interest charge Of about $2jJ 300.
and will. they think. have greater free
dom of action than if Chicago money
loaning syndicate held a first mortgage
on the gross receipts for S7-O0J,OJJ or
10000 This seems to be the al
tentative which the opponents of a
Congressional loan would have the
company accept.
1T is said that if the Directory Com
mittee become convinced they cannot
/ get an appropriation for themselves,
| they will take a loan and urge Congress
to appropriate $1,000 900 to the Ma
| tional Commission for the maintenance
| of the Departments of exhibits, thus re-
| lieving the local Board of the burden
of their support.
Gen. St. Clair, Chairman of the
Commission's Committee on Legisla-
ton. Director-General Davis, President
Baker, and others are now pretty near
ly agreed that bill embodying a
81. 900. 900 loan for the director. with
81, 900. 900 appropriation for the Com
mission. can be passed and ought to be
agreed on.
In the Washington dispatches of the
Chicago Tribune for April % is found
this ingenious admission of Chicago's
readiness to take any appropriation,
with this expression OF the hopeless
ness of trying to get any appropriations:
The question is broached whether
a request for a g. 500, 900 or 50. 900, 900
appropriation would stand any better
chance than the sum S5.000,0 900. 1t
would not. for she objections of Con-
gressmen are not to the amount. but to
the principle of an appropriation.
Those who are against it would fight
the smaller sum as bitterly as the great
er. The Illinois Congressman are
pretty unanimous in their advice to the
directors to abandon the appropriation
and concentrate on loan"
In the fame edition of Mr.. Medills
newspaper are to be found some re-
marks by a distinguished Illinois Dem
ocrat. the Hon. Adlai +. Stevenson a
friend of the show, but also person of
good judgment:
The Chicago people seem to assume
that the alternatives is left to them be- |
tween an appropriation and a loan. |
That is an error. There is no longer |
any question of an appropriation. |
doubt if there has been such practic- |
al question. However that may be, a |
direct appropriation will not be made.
That is my deliberate judgment. Nor
is it certain that a loan can be secured.
The Chicago people are said to be
whether they will accept
TO II ~ l.
for them to decide whether they will |
accept or refuse a loan which may be
rendered them. That is also an erron-
eous assumption. 1t is certain that
there will be no appropriation. Yet it
is by no means certain that there will
be a loan. The Congress will not ten
der loan to Chicago on silver salv
er. 1t will require very earnest, con-
tinuOus. and enthusiastic work on the
part of the friends of the Fair to secure
a loan of $7,0O0,000 without interest.
Such a bill will meet with formidable
and persistent opposition. I think a
loan bill might pass, but that is not
certain
Before the Worlds Fair bill was pass
ed, Chicago said: I'VE will ask no
money from Congress except what may
be required for the buildings and ex-
hibits of the Government. Yet in the
last few weeks She has been asking
Congress for an appropriation of
s.. ODJ,OO0, or an appropriation of
81. .00J,00o, or an appropriation of
s., 900, 900, or a stock subscription Of
5000, 900, and until baf1led in all her
petitions she seems to have made up
ler mind. or to be near making up her
mind, to content herself with the prop
)sition for $4,000 ..loan. .''-New
York Sun.
Defeat the Fraud Food Bill.