The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-05
The South Against Atlanta.

1t seems a little strange that the chief
opposition to an appropriation of 100000
for a government exhibit at the Atlanta
exposition should come from the south.
There were only few members of the
committee on appropriations present yes
terday when the question of making an
appropriation for the exposition came up
for consideration. 1t is intimated that if
there had been q full committee present
the appropriation would have been de
feated. AS it was the appropriation was
carried by very narrow margin. 1t is
stated that there will be minority re-
port, which means that unless a good
deal of hard work is done before the mat
ter gets before the House strong effort
will be made TO defeat the appropriation.
Those of the committee who supported
the appropriation were from Maine,
New York, Massachusetts, Georgia and
Illinois, while those who opposed it were
from Texas, Tennessee and Indiana.
This is a rather remarkable condition of
affairs. If northern members of the COM
mittee had objected to the appropriation,
it might have been said they were infu-
enced by hostility to the south, but it is
hardly possible that the attitude of the
southern committeeman is due to jealousy
of Atlanta
The argument against the appropria-
ton Is that the times are hard and that
the condition of Che treasury is not such
as to justify such an appropriation. 1t
is further urged that the exposition
| comes too soon after the worlds fair.
The first argument is not a tenable one.
The amount asked is not large, and that
is good reason for thinking that before
the money from the government will be
needed the condition of the treasury
will be greatly improved. There is
no doubt that as soon as the tariff bill
is disposed of there will be an immense
increase in the revenues. and instead of
being deficit there will be a surplus
1t is true the Atlanta fair follows close
after the worlds fair. Its success would
be greater, doubtless, if the date of it
were three years hence instead of one.
| but that is not now debatable question.
| The time. has been fixed and the thing to
| do now is to make it a success.
A newspaper man at Port au Prince
says the shrewd captain of the yacht Ma
talie, which left Savannah last winter
| under mysterious circumstances, sue
ceeded in playing $50 600 Joke on Hippo
/ lyte. According to the story. otter the
| whole Haytian navy had chased the Ma
! tale she was captured and found to be
| merely pleasure craft, with not gun or
| cartridge aboard. A citizen aboard the
| yacht was taken prisoner He had
! papers to prove himself a resident of the
/ United States. These papers put an I'M
/ pleasant aspect upon the case from Hip
polyte's standpoint, and he eagerly agreed
4 to the citizens terms for settlement.
And therein lay the joke on the black
President; the citizen was a Haytian rev
/ olutionlst, and the money went directly
into the revolutionists treasury.
Senators Gordon and Hill never voiced
( public sentiment more surely than in de-
handing that the sugar trust investiga-
ton be conducted with open doors The
people wish. and have a right to know
the truth and all the details of the whole
matter; and they will not be satisfied
with only such information as it NAV
! please the committee to give them. The
arguments of precedent" and usage"
viii not satisfy the public mind, aud if
the committee persists in it's star cham
/ Der course it will only cloud the commit
teemen's regulations 1t was a blunder
in the first place TO make the inquiry
| secret.
1t is refreshing to read the serial stories
| about Mexico and, the Mexicans being
| published by the Georgia weekly editors
who recently made a trip to that country.
! After wadinG through columns about
! grand jury reports, and Atkinson and
] Evans, and the free coinage of silver, and
the county primaries, it is restful to read
the impressions Of the Georgia editor con
corning the home Of the original Aztec.
the realm Of the Toltec, the kingdom of
the Montezumas the republic of Diaz"
For original thought and picturesque
phraseology some of the sketches are
| masterpieces