Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-19
THE COTTON STATES.
Movement on Foot for a Great Inter.
national Movement.
Congress Asked 10 Send . Helping Hand
An ~ Wind, Etc."

WAs-IyGToy, May Especial -
Atlant-s las invaded Washington, not en-
masse c::sctly, but by q very large delega-
ton Of her leading men. Among them
ere Editor Clark Howell Of The Constitu-
tioh; stuart Woodson, president of the
Atlanta chamber Of commerce; John b.
Goodwin, mayor Of the city; ex Governor
Bullock, and many others. With thea
came representatives Of nearly all the con-
siderable cities OF the south. They arrived
Monday evening and were followed ON
Tuesday by a considerable delegation Of
the colored people, the whole movement
being in the interest Of the Cotton States
and International Exposition company,
which is organizing the great exposition
OF 1885 at Atlanta. On Tuesday they were
heard by the house committee on appropri-
ations and thereafter devoted themselves
to interviewing Individual congressman
and incidentally to sightseeing and talk
ing politics. Their bill, introduced by Mr..
Livingston and now before the committee
on appropriations, provides that the Unit
cd States shall send to the exposition all
those articles from the Smithsonian insti-
tuition the fish commission and National
museum which were sent to the Chicago
Worlds fair and a great many other
things; also that all articles imported for
the sole purpose Of exhibition shall be free
of tariff duties, that the government will
provide the proper building and care tax
ers for it8 property there, ana finally that
medals with appropriate devices common
oratiye Of the exposition and for awards
shall be prepared by the United States
mint al cost. The amount Of money which
the government is to cxpend in this per-
Torrance Is loft blank, and as a matter of
course here y, III be the usual lively debate
Oh that subject.
Cotton aad the Colored Race.
'tYou must not think" said Mr. Liv-
inqston In the course OF a lengthy talk cx-
plainin9 his bill, that because this is call
cd a Gotten states exposition il Is confined
to thosa states or even to this country 1t
Is to be not only national, but information
al, and really the Eiain object of il is to Sc
cLrc clostr commercial relations between
this country and all Spanish America
and the West Indies. incidentally it may
aid the Nicaragua canal and other great
project. OF course there is feeling that
tho southern ports will be greatly benefit
cd by the Nicaragua canal and trade with
Spanish America, and equally Of course
Atlanta Believes that she H. III the right 20
sition to benefit by any increase in the
trade of the southern ports. There Is ono
feature Of this schcE2c That ought to lie
widely advertised, ana III Americans ought
to be interested in it, and that is the Gr-
ranger cnt to chow tie progress of the col
ored race in every department Of activity
Bishop Gaines, bishop Tanner and otter
prominent c0!otCd len ere active il this
work. and we think that tho colorcd poo
l,, i,,tn ir,s,
and attractive feature Of tho affair. OF
course it will be the greatest thing of the
sort eve, accomplished, for really nothing
worth mentioning has yet been done in
that line, and the colorcd people Of Geor-
gia are, as we think, rather ahead of those
In any other state or country"
a Useful infection.
Many good Eatured people arc saying