Up to this time the Chinese exhibits at the Exposition have not had the attention of which they may he sure later, because of the incompleteness that has. militated against everything connected with the In the Fine Arts building, the beautiful display of fine pottery and brie-a-prac is not yet open for visitors, while the pavilion the Manufactures building, although accessible, is not by any means arranged. The exhibit of toys, textile fabrics, ivory carvings, embroideries and curios in this periion is certain to be of great interest, mut just now the visitors continue to con: fine their attention to the exteriors, and the twoer three buildings which by this time may be called reasonably complete. On the Midway Plaisance, the Chinese theatre scheme has been suffering by the action ofthe govemment in delaying the some 200 actors who were intended to come to take part in the plays, Altogether, the Chinese Exclusion Acts have made a great deal of excitement in the country. There has been mush indignation in the extreme west, because the President suspended the operation of the law for the time necessary to secure an opinion from the Supreme Court as to its constitutionality. He was generally sustained however, except on the Pacific coast. The decision of the court that the law was constitutional was a great surprise as well asa disappointment to many people, including otticiake, The day before the lay was to go into effect, President Cleveland telegraphed to the governors of several of the western states, by his Secretary of State, that he had fears of anti-Chinese riots, and wished them to use every means to prevent such. Governor Pennoyer of Oregon startled the country by replying to this effect: "Let the President mind his own business, and I will attend to my own." Even the most bitter of the President's enemies are indignant at the insult.
While it is thus impossible to describe what is within the great buildings of the Exposition is the best of time to tell of what. is without, the general plan of the grounds, the architectural and landscape features, the history of the enterprise, the methods of administration, and all such things, which in an enterprise of such magnitude are of the highest interest and importance. Inasmuch as it is my desire in the course of these letters to cover the subject to completion, possibly it is well that the exhibits are not quite ready, for they would occupy such constant attention, There is a bit of
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