THE WORLD'S FAIR.
By consent, Mr. Furnas' bill [H. R. 346] to provide for a Superintendent and Board of Managers for this State at the World's Fair, to be held in the city of New York in 1883, being read the third time--
Mr. FURNAS said this is a bill to provide for Indiana's representation at the World's Fair. We have great mineral, agricultural and horticultural wealth, but we can not exhibit it, of course, without some expense. The object of this bill is to make our resources fully known to the world and induce a better class of immigration to settle in Indiana. The appropriation asked for is not as extravagant as those of our sister States. Kansas appropriated a great deal more money, also Illinois and Ohio. Indiana being situated right in a central location, with all its railroad facilities and resources yet to be developed, it would be a shame not to be represented at the World's Fair.
The bill failed to pass--yeas, 40; nays, 40--for the want of a constitutional majority.
