carved and others decorated with paintings of Washington scenery and groupings of flowers, fruits, grains, fish, game, birds, etc.

California.-Among the most interesting exhibits will be a Pampas Plume Palace, consisting of a light wood framework, octagonal, covered partially with blue plumes, the roof being tiled with red plumes, the combination with white pluming thus representing the national colors. An American flag, hanging from a gilded frame, all made of pampas, will surmount the whole. On the inside walls of the palace will be a frieze, four feet wide, which will be made of wire in an artistic design, and the pampas, separated into small pieces, will be tied on. There will also be a dado in the same style of decoration, furnished with mirrors, a fireplace, tea-kettle, Persian rug, etc., all made of pampas plumes.

of New

New Hampshire. The structure Hampshire is fashioned after a Swiss chateau. It is founded upon granite. Within a spacious gallery will be shown raised and topographical ," mineral maps, portraits of "favorite sons,' specimens, etc.

State Commissioners.-Alabama.-F. G. Bromberg, O. R. Hundley, G. L. Werth, William S. Hull. Arkansas.-John D. Adams, J. H. Clendening, J. T. W. Tillar, Thos. H. Leslie.

California.-M. H. de Young, William Forsyth, Geo. Hazleton, Russ D. Stephens.

Colorado.-R. E. Goodell, Jos. H. Smith, H. B. Gillespie, O. C. French.

Connecticut.-L. Brainerd, Thos. M. Waller, Charles F. Brooker, Charles R. Baldwin.

Delaware.-Geo. V. Massey, W. H. Porter, Chas. F. Richards, William Saulsbury.

Florida.-C. F. A. Bielby, Richard Turnbull, Dudley W. Adams, J. T. Bernard.

Georgia.-L. McLaws, C. H. Way, James Longstreet, John W. Clark. Idaho.-G. A. Manning, J. E. Stearns, A. J. Crook,

John M. Burke.

Illinois.-C. H. Deere, A. T. Ewing, Lafayette Funk, De Witt Smith.

Indiana.-T. E. Garvin, E. B. Martindale, Wm. E. McLean, Charles M. Travis.

Iowa.-Jos. Eiboeck, W. F. King, C. N. Whiting, John Hayes.

Kansas.-C. K. Holliday, jr., R. E. Price, M. D. Henry, Frank W. Lanyon.

Kentucky.-Commissioners: John Bennett, J. A. McKenzie. Alternates: D. N. Comingore, John S.

Morris.

man, Clark S. Edwards.

R. L. McDonald.

New Jersey.-W. J. Sewell, Thomas Smith, Frederick S. Fish, Edwin A. Stevens.

New York.-C. M. Depew, J. B. Thacher, James H. Breslin, James Roosevelt.

North Carolina.-A. B. Andrews, T. B. Keogh, Elias Carr, G. A. Bingham.

North Dakota.-H. P. Rucker, Martin Ryan, Charles II. Stanley, Peter Cameron.

Ohio.-H. P. Platt, Wm. Ritchie, Lucius C. Cron, Adolph Pluemer.

Oregon.-H. Klippell, M. Wilkins, J. L. Morrow, W. T. Wright.

Pennsylvania.-R. B. Ricketts, J. W. Woodside, G. A. Macbeth, John K. Hallock.

Rhode Island.-Lyman B. Goff, G. C. Sims, Jeffrey Hazard, Lorillard Spencer.

South Carolina.-A. P. Butler, J. R. Cochran, E. L. Roche, J. W. Tindell.

South Dakota.-M. H. Day, W. McIntyre, S. A. Ramsey, L. S. Bullard.

Tennessee.-L. T. Baxter, T. L. Williams, Rush Strong, A. B. Hurt.

Texas.-A. M. Cochran, J. T. Dickinson, Lock McDaniel, Henry B. Andrews.

Wyoming.-A. C. Beckwith, Henry G. Hay, Asa 8. Mercer, John J. McCormick.

Territories.-Alaska.-Ed. de Groff, Louis L. Williams, Carl Gruhn, N. A. Fuller.

Arizona.-Geo. F. Coats, W. K. Meade, W. L. Van Horn, Herbert H. Logan.

New Mexico.-T. C. Gutierres, R. M. White, L. C. Tetard, Chas. B. Eddy.

Oklahoma.-O. Beeson, F. R. Gammon, John Wallace, Jos. W. McNeal.

Utah.-F. J. Kiesel, P. H. Lannan, William M. Ferry, Charles Crane.

District of Columbia.-A. T. Britton, A. A. Wilson, E. Kurtz Johnson, Dorsey Claggett.

World's Congress Auxiliary.-The World's Congress Auxiliary will comprise a central organization, authorized by the Exposition Directory of the World's Columbian Exposition, and recognized by the Federal Government; a local committee of arrangements for each Congress ; an advisory council for each committee; general honorary and corresponding members, and committees of co-operation, appointed by particular organizations, and recognized by the Auxiliary as representatives of societies or institutions. The Woman's Branch of the Auxiliary consists of committees of women appointed to co-operate with the corresponding committees of the men in making arrangements for Congresses appropriate Mixed commitfor the participation of women. tees are not appointed, but the two committees may act as a joint committee, when occasion requires. In case a separate Congress of Women is desirable, it will be in special charge of this branch of the Auxiliary, of which Mrs. Potter Palmer is president and Mrs. Charles Henrotin vice-president.

The work of the Congress will be divided into seventeen departments: Agriculture, Art, Commerce and Finance, Education, Engineering, Government, Literature, Labor, Medicine, Moral and Social Reform, Music, Public Press, Re ligion, Science and Philosophy, Temperance, Sunday Rest, and a General Department emotherwise assigned. bracing Congresses not

These general departments have been divided into more than one hundred divisions, in each of which a Congress is to be held. Each division has its own local committee of arrangements. Representative men from all parts of the world will participate in the proceedings.

The Congresses will be held in the permanent Memorial Art Palace, on the Lake Front Park. This building will have two large audience rooms, to seat about 3,000 persons each, and more than twenty smaller rooms, which will accommodate from 300 to 700 persons each. Popular meetings will be held in the main audience rooms. Meetings of chapters and sections of different Congresses for the discussion of subjects of more limited interest will be held in the smaller rooms. It will be possible to have two general Congresses and twenty special Congresses or Conferences in session at the same time, and, if necessary, to have three times as many meetings within a single day by arranging different programmes for morning, afternoon, and evening. At least one hundred congresses will be held in Chicago during the Exposition. The proceedings of the Congresses will be subsequently published in permanent form, and a programme is now being arranged for the various departments and their divisions by which the great specialists and advanced thinkers of the age may participate in discussing the important questions of the day.

The officers of the Auxiliary are Charles C. Ronney, President; Thomas B. Bryan, VicePresident; Lyman J. Gage, Treasurer; Benjamin Butterworth, Secretary.

Objects. The objects of the Congress are: "To provide for the proper presentation of the world's intellectual and moral progress, with the assistance of the leaders in all the chief departments of human achievement; to provide places of meeting and other facilities for kindred organizations_to unite in Congresses in Chicago during the Exposition season, for the consideration of questions in their respective departments; to conduct popular Congresses in which will be presented summaries of the progress made and the most important results attained in the several departments of civilized life; to provide for the proper publication of the Congress proceedings as the most valuable and enduring memorial of the Exposition; and to bring all the departments of human progress into harmonious relation in the Exposition."

Woman's Progress.-Includes all the fields in which women have achieved success; and will embrace a General Congress of representative women of all countries, beginning May 15, 1893.

Public Press-Includes the Daily Press, Weeklies and Magazines, the Religious Press, Trade Journals, Scientific and Professional Journals, etc. Congresses will be held during the week beginning May 22, 1893.

Medicine.-Includes General Medicine and Surgery, Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery; Eclectic Medicine and Surgery; Medico-Climatology. Congresses will be held during the week beginning May 29. The Congresses of Dentistry, Pharmacy, and Medical Jurisprudence have been transferred to the week beginning August 14, 1893.

Temperance.- -Includes the Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Catholic Temperance Societies, National Temperance Society; Independent Order of Good Templars; Sons of Temperance; Templars of Honor and Temperance; Royal Templars of Temperance; Non-partisan W. C. T. U.; Law and Order Leagues; Vegetarian Societies and similar organizations. Congresses will be held during the week beginning June 5, 1893.

Moral and Social Reform.-Includes Philanthropy, Prevention, Charity, and Reform, as represented by the National Conference of Charities and Correction; Women's Exchanges; Lodging Houses; Newsboys' and Bootblacks' Homes; Humane Societies; Provident Associations; Industrial Schools, Chil

dren's Missions; Children's Aid Societies; Day Nurseries; Relief Societies; Orphan Asylums; Homes for Old People; Asylums for Incurables; Hospitals; Little Sisters of the Poor: Fresh Air Work; Soup Houses; Penal Institutions; Woman's Refuges; Houses of the Good Shepherd; Reform Schools; the Salvation Army, and the like. Congresses will be held during the week beginning June 12, 1893.

Commerce and Finance.-Includes the general divisions of Banking and Finance; Boards of Trade; Stocks and Bonds; Water Commerce; Railway Commerce; Commercial Clubs and kindred organizations; Insurance; Building Associations; Mercantile Business, etc. The Insurance Congresses will include Fire Insurance, Marine Insurance, Life and Accident Insurance, Mutual Benefit and Assessment Associations, Fidelity and Employers' Liability Insurance, and Insurance Specialties. Congress will begin on June 19, 1898. The Water week of August, simultaneously with the EngineerCommerce Congress will be held during the first ing Congress.

Music-Includes Orchestral, Art, Choral Music and Training, Songs of the People, Organ and Church Music, Musical Art and Literature, Musical Criticism and History, Opera Houses and Music Halls. Congresses will be held during the week beginning July 3, 1893.

Literature. Includes Libraries, History, Philology, Authors, Folk-lore, and Copyright. Congresses will begin on July 10, 1893.

Education.-Includes Higher Institutions of Learning and University Extension; Public Instruction; the Kindergarten; Manual and Art Training: Business and Commercial Education; Education in Civil Law and Government; Instruction of the Deaf: Education of the Blind; Representative Youth of Public Schools; College and University Students; College Fraternities; Psychology-Experimental and Rational; Physical Culture: Domestic and Economic Education; Agricultural Education; Authors and Publishers. The General Division of Public Instruction in Music is transferred to the Department of Musical Art. Congresses will begin on July 17, 1893, and will be followed by the World's General Educational Congress, in which all Departments of Education will be represented.

Engineering.-Includes Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Military Engineering, Marine and Naval Engineering, Aerial Navigation, Engineering Education. Engineering Congresses and Water Commerce Congress will be held during the week beginning July 31, 1893,

Art.-Includes Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Decorative Art, Photographic Art, Governmental Patronage of Art-Art Museums, Art Education, etc. Congresses will open on July 31, 1893.

Government. Includes Jurisprudence and Law Reform, Political and Economic Reform, City Government, Executive Administration, Intellectual Property, Arbitration and Peace. Jurisprudence and Law Reform will include the Laws of Nations, Expatriation, Naturalization, and Extradition: International Privileges of Citizenship, the Administration of Justice, etc. Political and Economic Reform will include Political Economy and Economic Science, Profit-sharing, Social Science, the Single Tax and other Theories; Public Revenues, Statistics, Weights and Measures and Coinage, Postal Service, Suffrage in Republics, Kingdoms, and Empires, Civil Service Reform, etc. City Government will include Municipal Order, the Public Service, Public Works, Police Protection, Public Revenues and Expenditures, and other important subjects. Executive Administration will include the nature, office, and application of Executive Power, in Municipal, State, and National Government. Intellectual Property will include Trademarks and Patents, both National and International.

Copyright has been transferred from Government to Literature. Arbitration and Peace will include the

establishment of permanent International Courts of Justice, the substitution of Arbitration for War, the establishment of Courts of Conciliation and Árbitration for the voluntary settlement of private controversies, etc. Congresses of this division will begin on August 7, 1893, and may extend into the following week. The Economic Congress will be deferred to the week beginning August 28, and held simultaneously with the Labor Congress.

General Department of Subjects Specially Assigned.— Includes Congresses not properly belonging to any other Department; also Congresses which could not be held in their appropriate places in the other Departments, such as the Dental Congress, Pharmaceutical Congress, Congress of Medical Jurists, Congress of the African Continent and People, Horticultural Congress, and Chess Congress. Congresses will begin on August 14, 1893. The Congress of Pharmacists will be held during the following week in connection with the Congress of Chemists.

Science and Philosophy.-Includes General Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, Meteorology, Ġeology, Geography, Chemistry, Electricity, Botany, Zoology, Microscopy, Anthropology, Ethnology, and Archæology, Indian Ethnology, African Ethnology, Psychical Science, Philosophy. Congresses are assigned to the week beginning August 21, 1893. The Congress of African Ethnology will open during the preceding week.

Labor.-Includes Historic Development of Labor, Labor Organizations, Couflicts of Labor and Capital, Labor Economics and Legislation, Woman's Work and Wages, Domestic Economy, Child Labor, Education, Public Opinion and Progress. Congresses will be held in the last days of August and the first days of September, closing on "Labor Dav," Sept. 4, 1893.

Religion. Includes the following General Divisions, subject to additions: Baptist, Catholic, Congregational, Christian, Evangelical Association, Evangelical Church, Friends, Jews, Lutheran

General Council, Lutheran General Synod, Lutheran Synodical Conference, Methodist Episcopal, New Jerusalem, Presbyterian, Protestant Episcopal, Reformed Church of North America, Dutch Reformed Church, Reformed Episcopal, Swedish Evangelical, United Brethren, Unitarian, Universalist, Missions, Evangelical Alliance, Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations, Society of the Christian Endeavor, Epworth League, Brotherhood of Christian Unity. The Catholic Congress will begin on Sept. 5, the World's Parliament of Religions on Sept. 11, the Denominational Congresses on Sept. 21, and the Missionary Congresses on Sept. 28, to be followed by Congresses of the Evangelical Alliance and other bodies

named.

Sunday Rest.-Includes Physiological Relations, Economic and Business Relations, Governmental and Political Relations, Social and Moral Relations, and Religious Relations of the Weekly Rest Day. Congresses will be held in October, immediately after those of the Religious Societies.

Con

Public Health.-Includes Sanitary Legislation, Public Health Authorities, Governmental Administration in relation to Epidemies and Contagions, Food Inspection and other Food Problems. gresses will follow that of Sunday Rest in October. Agriculture.-Includes Farm Culture and Cereal Industry, Animal Industry, Agricultural Organizations and Governinental Departments of Agriculture, Agricultural Education and Experiment, Good Roads, Household Economics, and Horticulture. Congresses begin on October 16, 1893.

Awards.-The report of the sub-committee on Awards of the Judiciary Committee, made September 15, 1890, upon the question of the rights, duties, and powers of the Commission

under the act of Congress, named, as among the "original and exclusive powers of the Commission," the power to appoint judges and examiners for the Exposition, and to award all premiums." At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Commission held October 18, 1890, a resolution was adopted authorizing President Palmer to appoint a committee of four from the Commission to confer with a similar committee from the local directory, and to determine character of awards shall be made, if any." 'whether awards shall be granted and what

This committee reported the following among other recommendations:

"That awards be granted upon specific points of by a board of judges, who shall be competent exexcellence or advancement, formulated in words perts; that the evidence of awards be parchment certificates accompanied by bronze medals."

"That there be but one class or kind of medal, to be made of bronze, and to be works of art selected from competitive tests by the Committee on Fine Arts of the Commission, or, if more desirable, by the Joint Committees on Fine Arts of the Commission and the local directory."

These recommendations were adopted by the commission; and at the meeting of its Executive Committee held Sept. 1, 1891, the following resolution was adopted:

"There shall be a committee on awards, to be

appointed by the president, consisting of twelve commissioners, which is authorized to meet at the call of the chairman and shall have charge of the subjects of awards, and who shall, in connection with the Director-General, select and appoint the board of judges, subject to the approval of the Commission."

This committee, it is understood, will be formed by the appointment of one member from each of the committees representing the twelve great departments of the Exposition.

Finance. The following is a recently published authentic statement concerning the estimated receipts and expenditures: