The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-17
AN INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION
 NEXT YEAR


 Omaha Aug 16.-A dispatch from Washington states that President Me Kinley has signed the bill which car ried an item of two hundred thousand dollars for the Trans Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898.
 This appropriation is in consonance l with the act of congress passed early l in June, 1S96 which pledged two hun | dred thousand dollars for the purposes of a government exhibit, buildings and proper supervision thereof. The act provides that there shall be exhibited at the Trans Mississippi Exposition by the government of the United States, from it's executive departments. the Smithsonian Institution, the United 1 States Fish commission and the Na- tional Museum, such articles and ma- terlals as illustrate the functions and administrative faculty of the govern ment in time of peace, and it's re- sources as a war power, tending to de- | monstrate the nature of our inst1tu- tions and their adaptation to the wants | of the people; that such exposition shall be national, as we'll as interna- l tional, in its character in which the people of the United States, of Mexico, of the Central and Southern American states, and of the states of the old world shall be invited to participate. Medals, with appropriate devices, em- blems and inscriptions, commemorative of said Trans Mississippi and Interna- | tiona1 Exposition, and of the awards to i be made to exhibitors, will be prepared at some mint of the United States for the Board of Directors Articles im- ported from foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition, upon which there shall be a. tariff or customs duty, shall be admitted free Of payment of duty, customs fees or charges. Regu- l lations governing entries of foreign goods intended for exhibit at the | Trans Mississippi Exposition have been issued by the secretary of the treasury, | By the terms of this act the appro- priation became available for its in | tended purpose whenever the exposi- tion officials could certify that the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dol
 lars from other sources had been con tributed to the funds of the exposition
 This certificate, properly attested, is now in the hands of the secretary of i tilS tItdSuly All CDiltlllUliS HdN1llE,
 been met, the supervising architect of
 the government can proceed at once
 with the plans for the government
 building. That official has conferred
 with MT. c. Howard Walker, of the
 firm of Walker & Kimball chief archi- tects of the exposition, and approved
 MT. Walkers general ideas respecting
 the plan of the government building.
 This building will be erected at the
 west end of the grand court, the dis
 tinguishing feature of which will be the massive government building.
 | Architects who stand pre- eminent in their profession are now perfecting the
 plans of the main buildings-Agricul- ture, Art, Electricity and Machinery,
 Mines and Mining, Manufactures and
 Liberal Arts, and Spectatorium. Pre-
 liminary sketches will be ready for
 publication soon. The cost of the
 buildings will be about one hundred
 thousand dollars each.
 Messrs. Walker & Kimball, chief
 architects, will create designs for all structures other than the main build ings. Their sketches of the Arch of States and the Administration Arch
 are highly pleasing, and their prelimi- nary plans of the grounds and the gen. eral plan of architecture give warrant for the prediction that the architecture of the Trans Mississippi Exposition will
 be second only to that of the World S Fair. The colonnades will be in bril- liant colors. It is to be a Pompeiian rather than white city. Most of the
 buildings will be constructed this year. Bids for the construction of the Ad-
 ministration Arch will be called for soon.
 The United States senate has adopted
 a concurrent resolution offered by Sen
 ator Allen, nationalizing the Trans Mis- sissippi Exposition to be held at Oma- ha, and requesting the President to in vite foreign nations to participate. A joint resolution was also agreed to, sus- pending the Immigration and Chimes St exclusion laws so as to permit foreign labor to take charge of foreign exhibits
 at this exposition.
 The congressional act in aid of the
 exposition of 1898 gives it a nationa
 and international character. In addi-
 ton to the regulations issued by the
 secretary of the treasury governing the
 admission of foreign exhibits, which haveb sent to the United States con-
 suls throughout the world, the State
 department also has prepared a letter | to American representatives accredited Ito foreign countries,- which will soon be