The Monticellonian., 1901-07-05
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The Forest Park Site, at St. Louis, Unanimously Approved by the
 National Convention.
OBJECTIONS TO THE SITE 0VERRULeD.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company to the Powers With Which the National Commission is Invested.

Company to the Powers With Which the National Commission is Invested.
 St. Louis, June 5o.-Without dis senting voice the Louisiana Purchase exposition national commission ap- proved the Forest Park site as the To- cation for the Worlds Fair site in 1903.
 This is the third and last step in the site selection. The first step was talk en Monday afternoon, when the ex ecutive committee selected the Forest Park site. The approval of the selec- tion, Tuesday morning, by the board of directors, was she second step.
 The national commission had been In session since Wednesday morning. On that day visit was paid to For est park under the guidance of the executive committee. Thursday two sessions of the committee were held, at which all phases of the site were canvassed. Two sessions were also held Friday, when the final action was taken.
 The commission received several communications from St. Lousans criticising the selection of Forest park" says one the commissioners. "One attracted attention to the moot ed legal difficulties involved. Others argued in favor of q river-front site. The commission considered all these communications, and approved the C,t .f.I. F,,n ,E Il. conditions.
 The approval of the site by the government commission, after an eN animation of all the legal questions involved, should stop once for all this talk of the existence of legal obsta cles to the use of the park. The com mission has iE its makeup five law years some as geod as there are in the United Lindsey, Thurston, Carter. Giynn and Allen. The facts were fully placed before them, and they ruled that no legal obstacles ex- isted. Opinions were also at hand from a number of learned St. Louis lawyers, including Counsel General Blair
 Objections to Site Considered.
 The commission also gave consider ation to the respective jurisdiction of the commission, and the exposition company ana drew up formal state ment on the subject, which was for warded to the Exposition company's officials.
 The document asserted that, as precedent to valid final action by the Exposition company. submission to and approval by the commission was necessary on the following subjects: Points Contained In Agreement. First=The selection of a site
 Second-The plans and specified tions of building to be used for ex- position purposes.
 Third-rhe plan and scope of the exposition.
 Fourth-The appointment of all judges and examiner for the exposi- tion.
 Sixth-The awarding of premiums. Seventh-All the rules and regula- lions of the exposition company gov erning rates for entrance and admis- sion fees, or otherwise affecting the LIZ lIlSs D4 lN lit Hto Oi liIltl CSlS Ol tnt exhibitors or the public. Agreement between the two bodies on these subjects was reached at n conference held Friday afternoon. The document. in conclusion, assert ed the right of the commission to su- pervise all expenditures of the eX- position company. It said:
 The government appropriation of g., 900 does not become available until SIC, o,ooo, ,O00 has first been expend- ed by the Exposition company for the uses and purposes of the exposition, and the responsibility is placed upon this commission to attest that eXpen- allure to the presndent of the United States.
 It is manifest that the responsibiii ty here thrown upon the commission involves the duty, and, therefore, the right to inspect all contracts, exam inc all accounts, call for statements, and to refuse tc recognize contracts or expenditures incurred unreasona- hle in terms or amount, or without the puryiew of the law.
 At the Friday afternoon session of the commission, President Francis and the committee on buildings aud grounds, on which William H. Thomp- son is chairman, conferred with the commission. It was decided that q minimum of $5,OoO,o00 would have to be expended on buildings by the Ex- | position comDGny.
 The commission adjourned about seven o'clock Friday night, subject to the call of the chair. Several of the commissioners. including Lindsey, Scott and Glynn. departed from St. Louis Friday night. All the others who will not make the trip to Buffalo with the board of directors left Sat urday morning. Commissioner Glynn goes to New York, and returns to Buffalo to be present at the dediea- tion of the Louisiana Purchase build ing at the Pan-American exposition.