The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-06
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FRHiS I'm i9UU.
There is now every prospect that the
participation of the United States in
the universal exposition to be held in
Paris in 1900 win be on a scale COM
mensurate with the advanced position
held by our products and industries in
the worlds chief markets.
The preliminary report of Moses P.
Handy, who, under the act approved
July 10, 1891 was appointed special
commissioner, with a view to securing
all attainabe Information necessary to
a full and complete understanding by
congress in regard to the participation
of this government in the Paris exposi-
ton, was laid before you by my mes
sage of December g. 1897, and showed
the large opportunities opened TO make
known our national progress in arts.
sciences, and manufactures, as we'll as
the urgent need of immediate and ade-
qUate provision to enable due aglvan-
tage thereof to be taken. Mr.. Handy's
death soon afterwards rendered it nee
essary for another to take up and com
plete his unfinished work and on Ian
uery IL last, Mr.. Thomas W. CTidler,
third assistant secretary of state, was
designated TO fulfill that task His re
port was laid before you by my mes
sage June "A, 1898, with the gratifying
result of awakening renewed interest
in the projected display.
BY a provision in the sunday civil
appropriation act of July l. sos, a sum
not to exceed S650,000 was allotted for
the organization of a commission 10
care for the proper preparation and in
stallatiOn of American exhibits and for
n n n ts nv he
several executive departments particu-
larly by the department of agriculture,
the fish commission and the Smithson-
ian institution, in representatives of
the government of the United States.
Pursuant to that enactment. I APP
pointed Ferdinand w. Peck Of Chica-
go, commissioner general, with an as
sistant commissioner general and
secretary Mr.. Peck at once proceeded
to Paris, where his success in enlarg
ing the scope and variety of the United
States exhibit has been most crafty
ing. Notwithstanding the comparatively
limited area of the exposition site
less than one-half that of the worlds
fair at ChicagoS-the space assigned to
the United States has been increased
from the absolute allotment of I403
square feet reported by Mr.. Handy to
some 100000 feet, with CORE spending
characteristic representation of the
various important branches of our
country's development
Mr.. Peck's report will be laid before
you. In my Judgment, it's recommend
ations will call for your early consid-
GRAFTON, especially as regards an in
crease of the appropriation to at least
one million dollars in ALL so that not
only may the assigned space be fully
a NV
in every class, but the preparation and
installation be on so perfect a scale
as to rank among the first in that I'M
paralleled competition of artistic and
inventive production, and thus C0un-
terbalance the disadvantage with which
we start as compared with other coun-
tries whose appropriations are on a
more generous scale and whose prepa-
rations are in q state of much greater
forwardness than our own
Where our artisans have the admitted
capacity to excel, where our inventive
genius has initiated many of the grand
est discoveries of these later days of the
century, and where the native resources
of our land are as limitless as they are
valuable to supply the worlds needs, it
is our province as it should be our
earnest care to lead in the march of
human progress and not rest content
with any secondary place. Moreover, if
this be due to ourselves, it is no less
due to the great French nation whose
guests we become, and which has in so
many ways testified its wish and hope
that our participation shall fit place thu
two peoples have won in the field Of
universal development.
The commercial arrangement made
with France on the 2Sth of May, 1898,
under the provisions of section of the
tariff act of 1897. went into effect ON the
first day of June following. 1t has re-
lieved a portion of our export trade
from serious embarrassment. Further
negotiations are now pending under
section of the same act, with view