Evening star., 1901-11-27
PREDICTS IT'S READINESS
REPRESENTATIVE BARTHOLDT ON
THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION.
Movement for a Larger Appropriation
-Favors Chinese Exclusion and
Prefers Reciprocity to Revision.

Representative Bartholdt of ST. Louis has
arrived in Washington for the session MT.
Bartholdt Is most enthusiastic over the out
look for the success of the exposition to
be held in st. Louis in celebration of the
Louisiana purchase. Although there has
been some question as to Just when the
exposition will be opened to the public, he
states that all will be In readiness by May
l. 1903. The first friction which has oc-
CURED between the members Of the nation
al commission and the board of local man
ayers has just manifested itself. The con-
tention is as to which body shall be the
body of last resort in disputed questions
relating to foreign exhibits. The matter
will be referred to board of arbitration.
as provided for under the act of Congress,
making the approximation of $5.0OO.00O for
the exposition.
Mr.. Bartholdt believes that an effort will
be made at the coming session to obtain
larger appropriations for the construction
Of the government buildings at the fair.
The amount provided for this purpose at
the last session was $250,000, which was
the amount expended by the government
at Chicago. The board, made up of repre-
rentatfves from each department of gov
ernment. which has control of this matter,
Mr. Bartholdt says, will make the appeal
to Congress. The basis of this appeal will
be that the st. Louis fair Is to surpass
all previous efforts in the exposition line
and that the government buildings should
be commensurate with other structures.
Just what amount will be asked for has
not yet been determined upon.
For Exclusion of the Chinese.
There are number of legislative mat
ters of national Importance which Mr..
Bartholdt has come prepared to act upon.
He viii vote for the re-enactment of the
Chinese exclusion law; for the construc-
ton of an :sthmian canal and for a Pacific
ocean able.
On the question of the reduction of the
war taxes he is prepared to take a decided
stand. II shall use what little influence
/ may possess" he declared, "to have the
special taxes imposed on account of the
Spanish war entirely wiped out The rev.
enueS we are collecting. under the Dingley
law are larger than were expected by
even the most sanguine Our Income under
these revenues is sufficient to meet all rea-
sonable demands There will doubtless be
some economies praeticed in some of the
branches of the government. For instance,
I think the Post Office Department is con-
sidering a measure to this end in the
handling OF seeond-class mail matter
However, l am opposed to one-cent post
age on first-class matter, on the ground
that such reduction would be of no ma
tefial- benefit to the masses of the peo-
pie"
Prefers Reciprocity to Tariff Revision.
On any serious intention to revise the
tariff Mr.. Bartholdt said he was one Of
those who believed that progress In such a
direction should be made very slowly
THE country has enjoyed wonderful pros
perity for more than four years because
of two prominent facts. One Of these facts
is that the business world has felt Sc
cure because the tariff question was re-
garded as settled. The other is that the
he
because they regarded the financial ques-
tion as settled.
If we attempt to disturb the tariff now
it will have the effect of diminishing that
feeling of security, with also the accom-
panying effect of diminishing our pros
perity. at least to some extent. OF course.
in considering this matter it will be well
to take into account whether the benefits
of tariff revision in certain directions
would outweigh the general injury.
would much prefer a general policy Of
reciprocity to correct what tariff evils may
exist. In this way We would get some re-
turn for the tariff concession whereas in
simply revising the tariff law We simply
make so many presents to foreign coun-
tries f-,
Mr.. Bartholdt will stand for a liberal
immigration policy so far as Europe is
concerned, but believes the country is not
yet prepared to "assimilate" the millions
OF Chinese that would come to this coun-
try if the exclusion law should be allowed
to lapse. This law should be re-enacted at
least for period of several years to come.
The question of allowing tariff conces-
sions on Cuban sugar, Mr.. Barthofdt says,
will have to receive serious consideration,
in view of our own beet sugar interests.
He said in this connection that Germany,
through a system of encouraging the rails
ing of beet sugar, had for the last thirty
five years made 1t possible for her farmers
to reap larger profit from the produc-
ton of sugar beets than our own farmers
had derived from either wheat or cotton.
This fact he believes, should cause serious
attention to be given to this industry in
the United States. particularly when 1t
was a question of hndering our own de-
yelopment to be accommodating to Cuba
or the sugar trust.
Mr.. Bartholdt has taken up quarters at
the Congressional Hotel.