Show V WHICH SHALL IT BE four llacrc famed for the Holdine of the Great World V V t ta laIr INQUIRY IIV THE SENATE SPECIAL SPE-CIAL COMMITTEE Colorado Stale Case Democratic Valor Lagging Itfhlml I > in Helena heal e > TeTeOr4lim LolIh jLSI I ronn iv ir M oua tirnSo Whhxo nod > rtr York WASUlaiTo Jtqs 15As briefly uieiiUonrd rTll s Times the Senate special commltUe oil the Worlds Fair of 1S32 met this morning and decided that St Louis be heard today Chicago tomorrow Washington Friday and New York Saturday Governor Franeisopened tbe discussion in behalf of SL Louts He was followed by Colonel C II June J Governor Frauds did lie all time gentleman with him cnffte representing repre-senting a jwople n ho were hospitable hospita-ble by instinct nnd were schooled In I entertaining If they could not convince the committee that SL Ix I rJI the I u great International t t exposition i 1 they would not lay claim to i They believed great good would accrue ac-crue blue nation from the location oftliD fair in St louIs He was followed by Colonel C < 1 Jones of SL Louis who spoke in high eulogy of that city He hoped that every foreign visitor t the coming exposition position would visit Washington andre and-re for himself the home nut workIng work-Ing of our federal government but I witlie that foreign visitor contemplated contem-plated it he would naturally ask Whence come time dynamic forces that propel nnd the wealth that supports I I sup-ports this mighty jiopular engine and the exposition would pInt him I directly to theo the-o FJ UIBUtJ VAMKV time principal Scut of the nation productiveness anti where in the not distant future would lie found n population far outnumbering the teeming millions Kurope In that valley Jay St Louis the central Kanclioii of its distributing system t LouU asked the committee to consider these facts in locating the World Fair One of Ihe competIng cities meaning 3Ccw York tointcd to the case with which Hint city could be reached by foreign visitors I the desire was t create n good impression upon upn foreigners then unquestionably the tnlraboulJ bu held near the centre of the nations i productiveness and i r tL lower It was thequcHlonof population popu-lation which should determine the 1jcallon of the exposition and not tIme preference of a corporal guard I of foreigners tfbo might jwssibly be I induced to attend if I In connection with population he asked attention to a map hung up in the committee room with circles of a V KADirs OK 500 aInLias around time cities of Xew York Chicago Chi-cago and St Luis The map shows ho mold n population of IOJ nrouu York 1OOluno1 I Chicago and COOO around St V Ii The hlgurca were baed UII the census of 1SiO Taldl the llOpiaUon of the imreecnttinte tW iork woulJ repnlt tOOJO ChiCll 11JJu and St Iul TOOOOmW The sjHaker then took the question of I up lu ton transportation fciUl and shown that the railroad rail-road mileage within the Xew York circle scat 11000 wiUiiti the Chicago Chica-go circle 03030 miles and within g the SL Louis circle 70OJO miles V That meant that not only was there a larger population within easy reaching distance of SL Lout but that ely had a very marked advantage over time u other cities JIM un jiiuejicuucni O mo 2000 milS of river navigation connected by the Mississippi Jilter with the hrn of St Lout Jones spoke at romt lengUi of the V ndmlrallu sites l around SL LouIs the Rbundant seater supply hotel accommodations etc and closet d I cO > by saying that should SL Louis peUtion b denied the will not retire re-tire sulking but shall address herself her-self promptly to sit In motion the resources of her trade and territory ExGovernor Stanford followed Mr Joni In a brief address niter which the committee niljourncd unUI Friihy when the Washington committee will be limrj uloro Slate mite DKNVKR Jan S Judge Allen today delivered an elaborate opinion opin-ion II ml lng the Ce of the pw > pe vs George I Graham This bone i I b-one of the four conspiracy cases commenced against Secretary of State Bice Collier b Cleveland W H Lawrence and Graham and Webber Judge Allen holds that the Indictments do not state facts tutllcient to constitute an offense against the Ian d the State and therefore orders that each < of the I I cases bo dismissed This disposes of I the criminal partof muchLiIkedof I irlatt e wherein the defendants I were Indicted for conspiracy t Je fraud the State A Chilean house raIns CHICAGO Jan 5f I awler 1 Co retail do goods merchant confessed judgment today for 35 000 There arc other liabilities amounting to 35000 Time only assets are tile store and fixtures which will hardly realize tOO Besides tills loss tastier sunk oO 000 in ISt igd build up business I busi-ness lie was vainly endeavoring to establish himself In a downtown district where old houses with heavy capital are numerous Damp Ip Ncnnlorn HriXNA Mont Jan 5When the senate met this morning bone of the democratic senators wer press cat A call of the house p dered and the serttautatarms sent out in search of the absent memo bers Pnrberry was found but no fused to come statin there was no authority for taklnir film The Secretary of Stite will not Ign tile certificates of the democratic demo-cratic senatonelect at any hazard Lieutenant Governor Itichani has ordered the rgcantatarms to bring the absentees before the bar ol thu senate even if he has to invoke aid from the civil authorities The latter now trying to enforce or de Governor Toole has recog nicest the organization of the senate by sending in his message |