The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-21
NEW DEAL FOR
PORTLAND FAIR
Change in the Commission Is
Under Consideration.
EXHIBITS READY TO SHIP
ST. LOUIS FINANCES TO BE IN
VEsTIGATED MONDAY.
EXHIBITS READY TO SHIP

Changes in the personnel of the Port
land exposition commission that may go
a. far as the appointment of an entirely
new commission are expected before the
adjournment of the legislature. Governor
cutler. who Decarn cX-officio cha irr11ar N
OF the commission on his Inaugural ton
l. considering the matter. and is said to
nave determined TO make changes. The
commission as made up at present in
S.uoes. III dduilIon To the governor. II. y.
dawson and George =. Holman Of SAT-
Lake. Senator A. b. Lewis of Beaver and
L J. Kiesel Of ogden.
There appears to be some question as
70 the governors power to make changes
j. the CONN ission arbitrarily. and il may
TIE purpose With I legislature so un-
evenly divided as the present one fl is
thought there will he little difficulty in
getting the measure through
Exhibit Ready TO Ship.
or the appropriation of $4,000 voted at
tho last session the Lewis and Clark com
mission still has about $500. the only eX-
peudltures to date having been for sta
tonery- Tho exhibits that were at St.
Louis arc now boxed and stored i'm SAT-
Lake ready for shipment to Portland as
soon as the fair is ready TO receive them.
The concentrating mill which was one of
the notable exhibits al St Louis. with the
TtotorS and all attachments, is reDOrtpd
TO he I'm splendid condition 70 6e set up
ct Portland.
The conference committee named to in
Louis commission will meet at o'clock
Monday 10 take up the matter A man
no is in a position to be informed is au-
t1"fltT for the statement that the COM
W'ttee viii find vouchers for every cent
expended by the committee. with not even
slight discrepancy anywhere IF the
commission IS censurable. he says il can
T." CenSUred only on the ground that it's
il dSmeut was at fault and he takes the
position that the judgment of the com
mission will be indicated when the facts
are known.
Other State Spent Excess.
There was but one state that did not
eNpend more than its appropriation at St
LOUIS. he said, and that state was
Missouri which was saved bv the fire
that destroyed its building Every other
state went over its appropriation. UTAH
excess expenditure was smaller than anv
olher state s. The commission could have
closed the exhibit in October and returned
tho exhibit to Utah without exceeding. the
appropriation. but that would, in large
measure have defeated the purpose of
the exhibit. As il was. the state made A
Cledltable showing against some Of the
Ti"hest states in the nation. The short
hihlts home. If they had been left at
- Louis the commission would have kent
WITHIN the appropriation. but they had to
b, saved for the Portland fair"
The shortage Of the St Louis commits
sion Is not deficit because it does not
stand against any iund Of the state The
commission had no authority to draw on
any fund but its own and the obligation
l. therefore, only an indirect obligation
e the state The loan has been guaran-
teen by private parties whom the com
mission desires to reimburse Among
1nOSe who guaranteed the loan are mon
TONED Former Governor Heber NJ Wells
Samuel Newhouse. President Josepb r
smith. W. 5. Mccormick and Governor
John g. Cutler.
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