The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-02-06
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For Heldlng an Expcsitiea % sostAssa
Predicts Next Fan Dsanw Enth
cAlly Pushea-The Prollnnlnnk Co.'S
Aiteee On OrEanisatipa aad the Opellno
Of the Plans Cpon WhloA it Il Proposed
to Hold the Expositloa.
cHrcAso. Jan. a0I-Local capitalists,
business men, public oflcials and
prominent citizens generally have
taken an enthusiastic interest in the
preliminary work for holding = gcner-
al exposition of southern products and
resources in Chicago during next Sep
tember and October. The prehminary
committee on Organization, which has
just been formed, is headed by vii.
liam A. Giles, public-spirited capital
ist, and associated with him are eight
prominent citizens, including Col.
Henry Z. Turner, commander of
the FIRST regiment Illinois national
guard, who made triumphal
entry OF the south during the
Atlanta exposition. This COMMITTEES
of the Chicago-Southern States Exposi-
tion Go. viii assist Mayor Swift in the
work OF bringing delegations from the
south and getting similar delegations
from Illinois to meet together in Chi
cago, February 10; also, to obtain full
information regarding the exposition
building, it's RENTAL the cost of COM
Quoting the exposition from now to its
opening and from its opening to the
close, and other information for the
benefit of the delegate convention.
Mayor Swift, upon his return from
Florida, will send official requests r.
the mayors of the principal cities in Il
southern states, asking them to for
ward to the governors of the respec'
tive states requests for the appoint.
ment of five commissioners from each
ing. Petitions signed by the citizens
Of these So cities to the same effect win
accompany the letters of the Mayors
to the governors. 1t is proposed to
have the same number of delegates to
represent Chicago.
At this meeting steps win be taken
TO incorporate the theexposition.company,
and the necessary stock will be sub
scribed for. It has been estimated by
Malcolm Mcneil, secretary Of the Chi
cago and Southern States association
and secretary of the preliminary COM
mission, that less than 800, 600 will be
needed for the exposition and that
handsome surplus will remain in the
treasury after all expenses are paid.
There will be no dividends, how
ever, the decision having been reached
to give to charity any surplus of re-
ceipts over expenditures, including the
repayment of the money subscribed
Chicago citizens will take half the
stock and the remainder will be sub
scribed for by the 13 states participa-
ting in the exposition, or as many
states as join hands. Chicago will
bear the expenses of q preliminary
character and pay for the building,
ETC., while the southerners will be ex-
pected to pay for transportation, in
stallation and care of exhibits. It is
proposed to present all the non-perish-
able exhibits at the close of the expo
sition to the Field Columbian museum
as the gift of the various states to
Chicago.
The plan proposed is that the presi-
dent, vice-president and general man-
ager, assistant managerdnpd secre-
tary of the exposition shalfUe Chicago
men, as the southern promoters Of the
project so desire, and that the direc-
tory be composed of one from each Of
the southern states represented, with
the same number from Illinois.
1t is also expected that each south.
ern state will be represented by vice.
president of the company, who will be
chairmen of the state commissions.
The names of Potter Palmer, Charles
Counselman, Harlow N. Higginbotham
(prcsident of the Worlds fair), Ferd
w. Peck and ex-Unitcd States Senator
Charles b. Farwell have been present.
ed for president. and that of David X.
Hill, of the Willoughby & Hill firm Of
clothiers, for general manager.
ANOTHER BOUNDARY QUESTION
Tho United States Accused OF Usurping
MnlIous of Acres ON tho Pacific Coast.
MONTREAL, Jan. 3O.-The Stars Lon-
don special says: Lord Salisbury and
Rt. Hon. Mr.. Chamberlain have been
considering the result of inquiries into
records here made on behalf of British
Columbia which show that the United
States has no right under the Anglo
Russian treaty of 1925 to 5000, 900 acres
of land opposite Prince of Wales island
on the Pacific coast, which is of high
stragetic value and which the United
States has usurped since buying
Alaska.
The records of the dispatches of
Bagot to Lord Canning show that
Clarence Strait and not Portland Inlet
is the correct boundary. It is sug-
gested that the Canadian members Of
the Alaska boundary commission have
been misled into assuming the correct
ness of the United States assumption.