The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-17
A MONUMENT TO LAFAYETTE
AMERICAN SCHOOL CHILDREN
WILL BUILD 1T.
To Be Unveiled at Paris In 1900
Can American Colonies" Be Rep
resented at Exposition.

Chicago, Aug 16.-According to pres
ent plans, Lafayette, the French hero
who came across the sea in colonial
days. with sword and money to aid the
j birth of liberty on American shores, is
TO have his grave marked with a $780,
600 monuments tribute from the pa
triotic school children of America Pres
| ident Mckinley has concurred in the
plans proposed by Ferdinand w. Peck,
commissioner general to the Paris eX-
position. for the unwilling of this beau
/ tiful memorial at the Paris exposition
of the Fourth of July, 1900a 1t is to be
| the feature of Omitted States Day" at
| the exposition.
At the commissioner generals office
it is announced that President McKin-
ley will soon issue a proclamation, de-
signaling a date, presumably October
49, as Lafayette Day. for general OBJ
servance in every school district
throughout the United States. Cover
nCrS of states and superintendent of
instruction will be urged to cooperate.
On that date. which is the anniversary
Offthe surrender of CORVALLIS at York
town, historical exercises will be held
in every school in the country which
a nominal admission fee will be charged
to witness. Millions of pennies and
dimes are expected to be received from
the rising generation of patriots and
will be applied to the monument fund
1t is expected that more than enough
will be realized than to erect a monu-
ment which will be the pride of two
continents.
Commissioner General Peck is puZ-
zling over the problem of whether or
not the United States newly acquired
possessions may be properly termed
colonies" If so, the country will be
eligible to space in the colonial build
ings at the exposition. If the islands
must. on the other hand, be consid-
cred mere territories. no space in the
building can be obtained.
The colonial building will be for dis
tinGtively colonial exhibits. In it Great
Britain will display the products of In
dia. Canada and her other colonies and
ether European nations will exhibit the
wealth of their dependencies in all
quarters of the world. Spain has ap-
piled and been given space, but owing
to the loss of her principal colonies. will
now not make so much of a showing
Commissioner General Peck is anxious
to procure all the space possible and
wishes to have the original allotment
of Spain, which he says she must soon
relinquish. He says he would have ap-
piled long ago but for the doubt in de-
fining the word colony"
Mr.. Peck says he has found the con-
census TO be that the possession of col
onies is not permissible under the con-
stitution and that America can have
no space in the colonial buildings, but
he thinks a compromise of some kind
may be effected by which additional
space will accrue to the United States.
The commissioner general says he is
determined that Cuba, Porto Rico, Ha-
wall and the Philippines shall be rep
resented IN the American exhibit. Ac-
cordingly he has sent letter to Sena-
tor Cullom of the Hawaiian commission
requesting him to urge the islands to
tiers will. the commissioner general
says, be sent to the military governors
of Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philip
pines as soon as they shall have been
appointed by the president.