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House further insist upon its disagreement, and
that the bill be sent to conference.
Messrs. Dingley, Hopkins and Bingham i'm.
mediately demanded q second.
Mr.. Holman asked that second be considered
as ordered, but to this Mr.. English On. j., Dem.)
objected.
Tellers were ordered, and reported the vote
as being liz to %. Although this was far short
of a quorum, no one raised the point.
Mr.. Bingham said that personally he was
without information as to the action taken by
the Democratic caucus yesterday. He under
stood from perusal of the papers that some
arrangement had been made. 1t must be pre-
sumed that the newspaper reports were fairly
correct. He would like, however, to have a
more official announcement from the other
side.
Mr.. REILLY PA. d. made an explanation Of
the agreement; which, at the request of the
Republicans. was read at the clerks desk. He
stated that it had been agreed that vote
should be taken on the Durborow bill,
amended so as to appropriate S2,50O,OO0 out
right for the Worlds Fair; not later than
o'clock Saturday.
Mr.. Culberson-I do not understand that
there is any agreement that that should be the
legislation of this Congress
Mr. Reilly-Of course no such agreement
could be made
Mr. Cate-But that we would allow vote to
be taken on it.
Mr. Reilly-Certainly.
Mr.. Culberson-But that the agreement is
the bill should be considered on that basis.
Mr.. Williams Qll)-And until final vote
is taken.
Mr. Reilly-The idea is to submit the Dur
boraw bill, or the bill reported from the Com.
mittee on the Columbian Exposition, to the &C.
ton of the House for its determination, instead
of the House taking action on the Senate
amendment.
Mr.. Pickler-Then the enemies of the propo-
sition concede nothing?
Mr.. Reilly-It brings the matter to direct
! vote.
Mr.. Pickler-They reserving the right to
fight the proposition on a new basis
Mr.. Reilly-The question is to come before
the House for its final action.
Mr.. Bailey-The gentleman from Pennsyl-
vanis, as understand him, undertakes to say
that that is an agreement on the part of this
| side of the House. / desire to say to him that
l expressly reserved my individual right to do
as believe to be proper under such circum-
stances as might arise. That being the condi-
tion, am unwilling that the gentleman from
Pennsylvania should put me in the attitude of
agreeing in advance to this proposition.
In answer to a question, Mr.. Reilly said that
the agreement bound nobody, but was the
unanimous agreement of the Democratic eau
| Gus.
Mr.. Henderson (Ill.)-Does this proposition
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port the Durborow bill?
Mr.. Reilly-It does not.
Mr.. Henderson-Then in my opinion, it is
the invitation of the spider to the fly, "Will
you walk into my parlor?" Laughter
Mr.. Reilly differ entirely from the gentle
man.
Mr.. Reilly moved to suspend the rules and
adopt resolution providing that Immediately
after its adoption the House proceed to the con.
sideration of substitute for the Durborow bill.
| such substitute to be considered as an original
| bill. The consideration shall continue from
| day to day, and at j o'clock tomorrow the
Committee of the Whole shall report the bill
to the House and the previous question shall be
considered as ordered on its passage. No in.
tervening motions shall be entertained until
the bill is finally disposed of.
Mr.. Bailey protested against the resolution as
being high-handed aud unprecedented pro-
ceeding. The resolution violated the agree
ment of the Democratic caucus. Nowhere in
! the agreement was there any resolution requr-
ing the Democrats to vote for closure resolu-
| ton. The adoption of the present resolution
meant that the Treasury doors were opened and
an Illinois corporation was permitted to walk
| in and take out $2500000.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.
Mr.. Picker rs. d., r. moved to increase the
sum appropriated for the Fair to s., 100000
| which was defeated.
Mr.. Atkinson PA, r. offered an amendment
prohibiting the sale of Intoxicating liquors.
Mr.. Picker moved to amend the amendment
! prohibiting the sale of liquor in the House
restaurant.
Mr.. Pickler's amendment was withdrawn and
| Mr. Atkinson's defeated.
Several other amendments were defeated,
and the committee then rose and the House ad-
| journed.
FRIDAY, AUG. 5.
The Senate met at 2 o'clock p. m, and mme-
| diately went into Executive session. While in
Executive session message was received from
! the House, with the Worlds Fair bill.
The bill having been read in full, and the
Vice-President having declared that the bill
was open to amendment, Mr.. Vest said that if
he could defeat it by any sort of parliamentary
tactics, he should do so very cheerfully. 1t was
| very evident, however, that the bill would pass,
and all that he could hope to do, under exist
ing circumstances would be to delay action
upon it for number Of days only. The people
had been told, when the question Of the site of
the Exposition was in dispute, that the people of
Chicago would be amply able to make good
| every guarantee given. This was business
enterprise. and would, if ali said about it were
| true, give large returns TO the investors. Un-
] der the pending bill. however. the grant was a
| pure and naked donation of 81, 10000 of the
tax money Of the people of the United States.
From this the people would never receive one
| cent. In his judgment the bill was utterly
indefensible and utterly without foundation.
Mr. Cockrell also opposed the bill, but said it
was useless for him to consume time in discus
sion Of the question.
Messrs. George, White, and Harris spoke
against the bill.
Mr. Cullom spoke in favor of the BILL and
stated that Chicago had subscribed $4,000, 900,
all OF which was paid in, while the act only
called for $l0,000,0 900 from the city.
Mr.. Sherman expressed the opinion that Con-
gress occupied very unpleasant attitude in
reference TO the Exposition. The City of Chi
cago had done everything required of her by
pie. They had invested between 10 and IL
million dollars in the enterprise. without the
certainty Of any return but with the hope that
probably portion would be refunded The
buildingsin Chicago now were greater, grander,
most costly and more appropriate than those Of
any other Exposition in the history of man.
kind.
He did not like the way that this money
was to be paid on the part of the Government.
He would rather that Congress had appro-
pristed five or ten millions and shared in the
profit and loss of the enterprise. But here
this $2,500,000 was thrown ungraciously to
Chicago like bone to dog. If the bill stood
alone, without its surroundings, he would vote
against it. IL he were a citizen Of Chicago he
would not accept the money in the way it was
offered. But now the President of the United
States detained in Washington under cir
cumstances which called for the sympathy of
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