The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-24
1t Is Apparently Settled That
Kansas Will Have
No General Exhibit at the
Paris Exposition.
WILLIS BILL FAILS
To Command Sufficient Votes to
Pass 1t.
Still Hope For AndersOn's Bill
For a Corn Exhibit.

Kansas will have no general exhibit
. at the Paris exposition next year. The
matter has not been definitely settled,
but that viii be the final outcome Of it.
Mr. Willis bill for the appropriation
OF $4,000 for a Kansas exhibit across
the-Atlautic came up at $50 O'Clock
Thursday afternoon. 1t was expected
that the bill would go through with lit
tie opposition in a very few minutes,
but the expectations were not realized.
There were more members on the floor
of the house who were opposed to the
appropriation than there were in favor
of it, and when the roll had been gone
over the bill lacked fifteen votes of
having a constitutional majority.
A call of the house was demanded and
the doors were locked. Not member
nor anyone else was allowed to leave
the hall, while several sergeants-at-
arms were dispatched to hunt for alb
sent members. After SkirmiSh1ng
around the building for a while they
found enough to make the vote SO for
the bill to 81 against it. The friends of
the bill could not get enough votes to
carry it, and its enemies could not Sc
cure a constitutional majority against
it.
After waiting for some time Mr..
GeisSler moved that the call of the
house be dispensed with. Speaker OS-
born ruled the motion out of order un-
less it carried with it a suspension of
the rules. A vote on this proposition
was taken and lost Then followed a
wrangle over parliamentary rules dur
hng which the house became all tangled
up. Members crowded around the
speakers desk and shouted simultan-
eously for recognition or argued with
one another. Others laughed and just
''hollered-" To people in the galleries
the scene resembled a stormy day in
the Chicago wheat pit.
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members were getting hungry. Men
wanted to be excused. Others wanted
the sergeant-at-armS to be instructed
to bring in lunch. At length the
friends of the measure began to fear
that some members would grow so tired
of waiting that they would change
their votes and defeat the bill. Law
renee and Babb each changed from aye
to no with the understanding that Mr.
Lawrence would have a motion to re
consider recorded. The call of the
house was then raised and the mem
bers went home to supper.
This will probably put an end to the
bill for a general exhibit, but Senator
Anderson's bill for a corn exhibit only
ds still pending. The friends of this bill
claim that this proposition is the most
feasible one from a business standpoint
that has been devised The idea is to
teach the nations of Europe to eat
corn, which they know little or nothing
about at present, and in that way in
crease the demand for our surplus corn.
i mere Is q movement on loot IN 6aCn
of the corn producing states to have
each legislature appropriate it's share
towards accomplishing this object.
Cheap, nutritious food is the problem
IN Europe and Asia The masses over
there eat very little wheat, but subsist
chiefly on rye and other cheap grains
Corn is much better food than any of
the cheaper grains, but Europe does not
know it, and it devolveS upon America
TO teach Europe how good corn is. The
national government has appropriated
only SIS 900 for a display of our entire
agricultural resources. This will be in
sufficient to do more than give a general
idea.
The American Maize Propaganda,
which was organized at a meeting in
Chicago over which Secretary Coburn
presided a year ago, has this to say
along this line:
Every business man to dispose OF his
wares must bring them to the attention
OF prospective customers. He must adj
vertise- Individual farmers can not do
this, but in this age of expanding COM
mercial relations it becomes the duty
of the state to represent the citizen. The
Paris exposition of 1900 will be q show
ground for the worlds prodScts and a
battle ground for the worlds commerce.
At the various international eXpOSitiOnS
an which our government has taken
part corn has never received any at
tention. The coming exposition offers
opportunity to demonstrate the food
value in such a practical manner as to
attract the attention of the whole world
People from every quarter of the globe
Will be there seeking commercial in