Show f U DR AM N qua UR im PASSED senator carter bet believes IMS congressi congress should help the far west washington feb 6 tho senate passed the bill providing for the participation by the united states jn in the alaska yukon exposition at seattle in 1909 in id the discussion before the vote was taken burkett opposed the bill as ashe lie said he had opposed every other bui for the purpose since he had bad beella congress mr LT tinman illman advocated the exposition idea senator carter beH believed eved the idea of 0 equity should influence con congress greas in ap for an exposition in the far west as so little had been done in aid of that thai section I 1 during the debate mr burkett taid ald the proposition to hold the exposition did not originate in alaska it has been put forward 11 he said by a lot of bompers boomers of seattle who purpose to boom their real estate and their private interests the men who promote these expositions eions said bald mr burkett are 6 men who have to bear the responsibility for the bills incurred they start on an exposition and unload their ideas on the community and then demand our money and the money of every nation on earth to pay for it mr burkett read a 11 list st of expositions in the united states showing that had bad been expended by congress in ild aid of them 1 mr tillman tallman supported the idea of holding expositions saying tho the charleston exposition had brought a great man many people from the north to the tha south sout ak to be civilized there he believed in expositions in order toen to encourage couii ge travel among the people from one ne section to another 7 |