The leader., 1902-03-26
MISS. EXPOSITION BUREAU.
THE GOVERNOR MAKES FOUR sPLEN-
DID SELECTIONS.
I. G. Enochs of Hinds, Frank Burkitt of
Chickasaw, v. Z. Still of Tate and
o. Is. Quin of Pike.

1. c. Enochs of Kinds, Frank Burktt of
Chickasaw, V. p. still of Tate and
| q. Il. Quin of Pike.
Picayune's Mississippi Bureaul
JACKSON, Miss, March Ex-Governor
Longino today announced the mem
bers of the Mississippi exposition bu-
reau. They are: Hon. l. c. Enochs, of
Kinds; DR.. o. B. Quin, of Pike; Hon.
Frank Burkitt, of Chickasaw, and Hon.
V. p. Still, of Tate. Four more rep
resentative citizens, perhaps, could
not have been found in the entire
commonwealth, and the geographical
distribution is most admirable. The
law appropriating $4,000 for an ex-
hibit of Mississippi's products and re-
sources at the centennial exposition,
authorized by an act of congress to be
held at st. Louis next year, in COM
memoration of the Louisiana purchase.
provided that in order to carry out
the work, that this bureau should con-
sist of the governor, who should be its
exofficio president, and four other
members, to be appointed by the gov
ernor. 1t also provided that this bu-
reau should appoint State commits
sioner to perform such duties in order
to effectuate magnificent exhibit of
the vast and varied resources of this
matchless commonwealth.
The appropriation for this exhibit is
the crowning plume in the cap of a
progressive and devoted State admin
lstration and the patriotic legislature
breathed into existence by the sover-
eign people at the polls in November,
1883. Mississippi during the past sew
eral years has made some history of
which the press and people are proud.
The session of 1900 provided for
million-dollar new statehouse, which
will be completed next year, and will
be the pride and glory not only of this
generation, but of posterity. The
same session provided for State
prison farm of 1900 acres, on which
100000 has been spent, and which,
when organized, will be worth half
million dollars, and be the model farm
of the world. Two thousand acres of
this farm, which is situated in the far
famed delta, is in cultivation this year.
By 1904 10000 acres will be in cult
vation, from which 6,00O bales of cotton
annually will be raised, besides ample
corn to run it. The Textile School at
the A. and NJ. College, at a cost of
$4,000, marked an epoch for mill
building in Mississippi. Thirty thou
sand dollars was spent in steam heat
ing and for an electrical plant at the
State University, which has educated
thousands of Mississippians, both in
law and literature. Thirty thousand
dollars was spent for dormitory and
a hospital for the Industrial Institute
and College, founded for the noble
daughters of the State in 1884, the
same being the pioneer of the world.
That session of the legislature also
provided branch experimental sta
tion in the piny woods section of the
State, and the recent special session of
the legislature appropriated $4,000
with which to make it's operations
effective. The two sessions of the
legislature increased the public school
fund a half million dollars in order
that the children of the common
wealth, white and black, should receive
better common school education, and
at the same time largely increased the
appropriations for the State Uniyer-
sity, the A. and NJ. College at Stark
vile and the Alcorn A. and M. Col
lege at Westside, the latter being the
negro State institution. Under this
State administration the pensions for
Confederate soldiers has been in
creased 100000, while $500 more has
been expended for the Confederate
Annex at Vicksburg. All the eleemosy-
nary institutions of the State have Ie-
ceiveI increased appropriations, and
$4,000 has been expended for an
nexes to the Mississippi Insane Hos
pital at Jackson. Four hundred thou
sand dollars of Inherited bonds have
been retired. These are some of the
things accomplished by the State ad-
ministration, and the tax levy, instead
of being increased, has been reduced
from 6 ID mills to 6 mills. Not a
single dollar of the million dollars of
bonds authorized to be sold for the
statehouse has been sold, and there
are thos who believe that with con-
tinuance of the wise, conservative and
honest conduct of public affairs, that
it will be possible to escape the sale of
a single dollar of bonds. This is
record of which any State would be
proud TO boast. 1t stands, perhaps,
without rival in businesslike State
craft. Every one of these achieve
ments was advocated by Governor
Longino, in his several State papers,
and is tultillment of the policy out
lined by him in his inaugural address.
The appropriation of $4,000 for an
exhibit at St. Louis Was "a necessary
chapter in the history of such phenom-
email accomplishments.
The members of this bureau named
by the governor, save one, are native
Mississippians. Captain Burkitt had
the misfortune to be born in Ten
nessee, but he atoned for II matter over
which he had no control thirty three
years ago by moving to this State. All
the members of this bureau, including
Governor Longino, were born upon a
farm, and every one of them, while en-
gagged successfully also in other voca-