Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-01-07
SEATTLE EXPOSITION
WILL PROVE Big ADVERTISEMENT
F0P PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Legislature will be Asked to ApprO.
pirate 100000 for the Alaska
YukOn-PaCifie Exposition, to be
Held at Seattle in 1909. will
Probably Grant II.
Especial Correspondence.)

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SEATTLE, Jan. 5.-Now that .he holi.
days are over and the Washington state
legislature will soon be in session, the
management OF the Alaska Yukon Pacific
Exposition is concentrating all its efforts
toward securing rapid legislation on the
Dill calling for an appropriation OF
$l,OO0,000 that will be introduced to
authorize the worlds fair in 1909.
Commissioners have been appointed to
visit every state that holds its legislative
meeting this winter. These commission.
ers are already in the field, and are now
waiting for the state OF Washington to
act before they can secure appropriations
from their respective commonwealths.
Further, the exposition bill that has
been introduced in congress will not be
acted upon until Washington stands
sponsor for the exposition. And then,
congress will take its cue from the sum
Washington appropriates in determining
on the amount the government will
spend on its exhibits.
In speaking OF the appropriation by
the state of Washington for the Alaska
Yukon-Pacifc Exposition, Henry f.
Reed, director of exploitation, has the
following to say:
"1t is absolutely essential for the sue.
cess OF the exposition, that The state of
Washington shall act promptly and show
a generous spirit to its appropriation.
The exposition bill should be the first
measure introduced at the forthcoming
session. and should be advanced to final
passage without unnecessary delay. Un.
less Washington, through its legislature,
shall show that measure of interest in
the exposition which this corporation
has created in the highest official circles
in the United States and the Dominion
OF Canada, the result Of this winters
work before congress and before the
legislatures of the various states, which
will be conducted at very considerable
expense to this company, will be griev.
ously disappointing to every friend Of the
exposition. If, on the other hand, the
response of the state shall be prompt and
liberal, there can hardly be any doubt
that, by the middle of March, the expo
eition will be state, Interstate and ma
tional in character, leaving the interna-
tional scope to be subsequently acquired
through foreign participation to be se-
cured by our own representatives. AL.
though this is short session OF congress,
there is precedent for the passage OF
exposition Legislation at a short session,
as was illustrated in the case OF the
Buffalo Exposition, wherein the act OF
the Legislature Of New York became a
law March l, 1899, and the act of con-
gress was passed March 5. 1899. This
company has proceeded as far as can for
the present with preparations for the ex-
position OF 1909. Its commissioners to
Canada and the several States are already
in the field, and the Washington and
Alaska members OF congress are ready
to act. All that remains is for the mes
sage to be sent out from Olympia that
the state OF Washington has become
sponsor for the Exposition Of 1909"