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WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 



Committee recently issued the following list of 

 necessary expenses: Grading, filling, etc., $450,- 

 400; landscape gardening, $323,490; viaducts 

 and bridges, $125,000; piers, $70,000; waterway 

 improvements, $2- J 5.000 ; railways, $500,000; 

 steam plant, $800,000; electricity, $1,500,000; 

 statuary on buildings, $100,000; vases, lamps, 

 and posts, $50,000 ; seating, $8,000 ; water sup- 

 ply, sewerage, etc., $600,000; improvement of 

 lake front, $200,000; World's Congress Auxil- 

 iary, $200,000: construction department ex- 

 penses, fuel, etc., $520,000; organization and 

 administration, $3,808,563 ; operating expenses, 

 $1,550,000; total, $10,530,453. 



This sum, added to the amount to be expended 

 in the erection of buildings, makes neces-ary a 

 total expenditure for Exposition purposes of 

 $18,530,453. (In round numbers, allowing a 

 margin for contingencies, $18,750,000.) This 

 does not include any part of the United States 

 Government appropriation, or any part of the 

 appropriations of the several States, or foreign 

 countries. Of this $18,750,000 it is estimated 

 that $17,000,000 will have to be paid out before 

 the opening of the gates of the Exposition on 

 May 1, 1893. 



Legislation. The act, of April 6, 1892, provides 

 that no citizen of any other country shall be held 

 liable for the infringement of any patent granted by 

 the United States, or of any trade-mark or label 

 registered in the United States, where the act com- 

 plained of is or shall be performed in connection 

 with the exhibition of any article or thing at the 

 World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. 



The act of May 12, 1892, provides that any Na- 

 tional bank located in Chicago may be designated 

 by the World's Columbian Exposition to conduct a 

 banking office upon the Exposition grounds, and, 

 upon approval by the Controller of the Currency, 

 may open and conduct such office as a branch of 

 the bank, subject to the same restrictions and hav- 

 ing the same rights ; provided, that the branch 

 shall not be operated for more than two years, 

 between July 1, 1892, and July 1, 1894. 



The act of August 4, 1892, changes the date of 

 the dedication of the buildings of the World's 

 Columbian Exposition from October 12 to October 

 21, 1892. 



The act of August, 5, 1892, provides that for the 

 purpose of aiding in defraying the cost of complet- 

 ing in a suitable manner the work of preparation for 

 inaugurating the World's Columbian Exposition, 

 there shall be coined at the mints of the United 

 States silver half-dollars of the lei$al weight and 

 fineness, not to exceed five million pieces, to be 

 known as the Columbian half-dollar, struck in com- 

 memoration of the World's Columbian Exposition, 

 the devices and designs upon which shall be pre- 

 scribed by the Director of the Mint, with the 

 approval of the Secretary of the Treasury ; and 

 said silver coins shall be manufactured from uncur- 

 rent subsidiary silver coins now in the Treasury. 

 All provisions of law relative to the coinage, legal- 

 tender quality, and redemption of the present 

 subsidiary silver coins are applicable to the coins 

 issued under this act, and when so recoined there is 

 appropriated from the treasury the said rive millions 

 of souvenir half-dollars, and the Secretary of the 

 Treasury is authorized to pay the same to the 

 World's Columbian Exposition, upon estimates and 

 vouchers certified for labor done, materials furnished 

 and services performed in prosecuting the work of 

 preparing the Exposition for opening as provided by 

 the act of April 25, 1890 ; provided, however, that 

 before the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to the 

 Exposition any part of the five million silver coins 



satisfactory evidence shall be furnished him show- 

 ing that the sum of at least $10,000,000 has been 

 collected and disbursed as required by said act ; and 

 provided, that the Exposition shall furnish a satis- 

 factory guarantee to the Secretary of the Treasury 

 that any further sum actually necessary to complete 

 the work of the Exposition to the opening has been 

 or will be provided by the World's Columbian 

 Exposition. 



The appropriation thus provided shall be upon 

 condition that the Exposition maintain and pay all 

 expenses, costs, and charges of the great depart- 

 ments organized for conducting the work of the 

 Exposition out of the Exposition funds. Fifty 

 thousand bronze medals and the necessary dies 

 therefor, with appropriate devices, emblems and 

 inscriptions, celebrating the 400th anniversary of the 

 discovery of America, shall be prepared under the 

 supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury at a 

 cost not to exceed $60,000, and the Bureau of 

 Engraving and Printing s^hall prepare plates and 

 make therefrom 50,000 vellum impressions for 

 diplomas at a cost not to exceed $43,000. The 

 medals and diplomas shall be delivered to the 

 World's Columbian Commission, to be awarded to 

 exhibitors in accordance with the provisions of the 

 act of Congress approved April 25, 1890, and there 

 is appropriated, from any moneys in the treasury 

 not otherwise appropriated, $103,000, or so much 

 thereof as may be necessary, to pay the expenditures 

 authorized by this section ; and authority may be 

 granted by the Secretary of the Treasury to the 

 holder of a medal, properly awarded to him, to 

 h;ive duplicates made at any of the mints of the 

 United States from gold, or silver, or bronze, at the 

 expense of the person desiring the same. 



All appropriations herein made for or pertaining 

 to the Exposition are upon the condition that the 

 Exposition shall not be opened to the public on 

 Sunday ; and if the appropriations be accepted by 

 the World's Columbian Exposition, upon that, con- 

 dition, it is made the duty of the World's Colum- 

 bian Commission to make the necessary modification 

 of the rules of the Exposition corporation. 



This bill, in its final shape, passed the Senate 

 without discussion. In the House the vote was : 

 Yeas, 131 (Reps. 82, Dems. 49) ; nays, 83 (Dems. 75, 

 Inds. 8). 



Officials. The revised list of officials is as 

 follows : 



President, Thomas W. Palmer, Michigan ; First 

 Vice-President, Thomas M. Waller, Connecticut ; 

 Second Vice-President, M. H. de Young, California ; 

 Third Vice-President, Davidson B. Penn, Louisiana; 

 Fourth Vice-President, Gorton W.Allen, New York; 

 Fifth Vice-President, Alexander B. Andrews, North 

 Carolina; Secretary, John T. Dickinson, Texas; 

 Vice-Chairman Executive Committee, James A. Mc- 

 Kenzie, Kentucky. 



Commissioner s-at- Large. Commissioners: Aug. G. 

 Bullock, G. W. Allen, P. A. B. Widener, Thos. W. 

 Palmer, R. W. Furnas, Wm. Lindsay, Henry Exall, 

 M. L. McDonald; Alternates: Henry Ingalls, Louis 

 Fitzsjenild, John W. Chalfant, James Oliver, Hale 

 G. Parker, Patrick Walsh, H. C. King, Thomas 

 Burke. 



Exposition Association of Chicago. Director-Gen- 

 eral, George R. Davis ; President, Harlow N. Higin- 

 botham ; First Vice-President, Ferd. W. Peck ; 

 Second Vice-President, Robert A. Waller; Secretary, 

 Howard O. Edmonds ; Treasurer, Anthony F. See- 

 berger; Auditor, William K. Ackerman ; Attorney, 

 William K. Carlisle ; Chief of Construction, D. H. 

 Burnham ; Traffic Manager, E. E. Jaycox ; Direc- 

 tors, William T. Baker, C. K. C. Billings, Thomas 

 G. Bryan, Edward B. Butler, Benjamin Butterworth, 

 Isaac N. Camp, William J. Chalmers, Robert C. 

 Clowry, Charles H.Chappell, George R-Davis, Arthur 

 Dixon, James W. Ellsworth, George P. Englehard, 



