Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-12-08

Ihere is now every prOSpect lnbb tDs
participation of the United States in
the Universal Exposition to be held in
Paris in 1900 will be on q scale com
mensurate with the advanced position
held by our products and Industries in
the worlds chief marts
The preliminary report of Mr. Moses
p. Handy, who, under the act,approyed
July 10th, 1887, was appointed special
commissioner, with a view to securing |
all attainable information necessary to |
d full and complete understanding by |
Congress in regard TO the participation |
of this government in the Paris Ex- |
position, was laid before you by mes
sage of December 9th, 1897, and showed
the large opportunities opened to make
known our national progress in arts,
science, and manufacture, as well as
the urgent need of immediate and
adequate provision to enable due adj
vantage thereof to be taken. Mr..
| Handy's death soon afterwards rem
dered it necessary for another to take
up and complete his unfinished work,
and on January 18th, last, Mr.. Thomas
w. Cridler, Third Assistant Secretary
Of State, was designated to fulfill that
task. His report was laid before you
by message of June 9th, 1898, with
| the gratifying result of awakened re-
newed interest in the projected display.
| BY provision in the sunory civil APP
preparation act of July 1st, 1888, u sum
not to exceed $3.50, 900 was allotted for
the organization of commission
to care for the proper preparation and
installation of American exhibits, and
for the display of suitable exhibits by
the several executive departments, par
tcularly by the department. OF agricul-
ture, the fish commission, and the
Smithsonian Institution, IN repre-
sentation of the government of the
United States.
i Pursuant to that enactment, ! ap.
pointed Mr.. Ferdinand w. Peck of
Chicago, commissioner general, WITH
an assistant commissioner general and
secretary. Mr.. Peck at once pro-
ceeded to Paris, where his success in
enlarging the scope and variety of the
United States exhibit has been most
gratifying. Notwithstanding the COM
paratively limited area of the ex-
position site Less than one half that
Of the worlds fair at Chicago--the
! space assigned to the United States
has been increased from the absolute
allntment of 157, 403 square feet re-
ported by Mr.. Handy to some 202, GOO
. square feet, with corresponding
augmentation Of the various important
/ branches of our oountry's development.
Mr.. Peck's report will be laid before
you. In my Judgment its recommends
tions will call for your early consldera-
ton, especially as regards an increase
), of the appropriation to at least
81, ZOO, 600 in all, so that not only may
Inc assigned space be fully taken up
:. by the best possible exhibits in every
! class, but the preparation and in
. stalation be on so perfect a scale as te
= rank among the first in the unparalleled
= competition of artistic and inventive
= production, and thus counterba1anct
the disadvantage with which we stand
as compared with other countries whose
! \ appropriations are on, a more generous
= scale and whose preparations are in
= state of much greater forwardness thar
: our own.
> Where our artisans have the ad
: mitted capacity to excel where, our in
:, ventive genius has initiated many o
u tho grandest discoveries of these late
q days of the country and where tht
I. native resources of our land are a
IL imitless as they are valuable to appl.
the worlds needs, it is our province, a
10 it should be our earnest care, to Leaf
IS in the march of human progress AM
r not rest content with my secondar
II place. Moreover if this be due to our
p selves, it is no less due to the grea
m French nation whose guests we become
80 and which has in so many way
d testified its, wish and hope that on
3, participation shall befit the place tn
10 two peoples have won in the held G
N universal development. N7f
" COMMERCIAL, ARRANGEMENTS.
n The commercial arrangement mad
nj with France on the Goth of May, 1851
10 under the provisions Of section 5 {
ts the tariff act of 1897, went into effet
!. on the first day of June following.
10 has relieved portion of our expo
e trade from serious embarrassment
mr. Further negotiations are now pendin
- under section of the same act, wit
a view to the increase of trade betwee
!, the two countries to their mutual az
~ ~ vantage. Negotiations with oth'
sss governments, in part Interrupted /
U the war with Spain, are again ]
Oh progress under both sections of u
40 40 tariff act. hope to be able to, al
q; nounee some of the results OF the
= negotiations during the present sesslc
NJ Of Congress-
n Negotiations to the same end wit
10 Germany have been set on foot. Mea
VI, while no effort has been relaxed
~ convince the imperial government
W the thoroughness Of our inspection
oi pork products for expectation, and
We is trusted that the efficient admin
, We tration of this measure by the Depar
,so lnent of Agriculture will be recognize
~ as a guarantee OF the healthfulness
'oss the food staples we send abroad
countries where their use is large al
,ra necessary.
re L transmitted to the Senate ON Il
no 10th of February last, informati
i'o touching the prohibition against 4
importation of fresh fruits from ii
country which had then recently be
ion decreed by Germany on the ground
as danger of disseminating the San Jo
AN scale insect. This precautionary, met
lie ure was justified by Germany on Il
an score of the drastic steps taken
,rd several States of the Union again
NE the spread of the pest, the elabora
ere reports of the Department OF Ag
aly culture being put in evidence to sh'
NE the danger to German fruit growi
III interests should the scalelobtain a Led
he ment in that country. Temporary
in lief was afforded in the case of lar
mn consignments of fruit then on the W
!, I by inspection and admission VIII
at found on-infected. Later the pl
ble hibition was extended to dried fru
!, OF every kind, but was relaxed so as
m. apply only to unpeeled fruit and fri
ith waste. As was to be expected,
~ alarm reached to other countries, a
, TO Switzerland has adopted u similar
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