The World's Fair

Chicago, June 27. - The National Commissioners of the World's Columbian Exposition assembled at the Grand Pacific Hotel yesterday, and were called to order at noon by Commissioner Ewing, of Illinois. Judgo John T. Harris, of Virginia, was electod temporary chairman, and R. R. Price, of Kansas, temporary secretary, with W. E. Curtis, M his assistant. A banquet was tendered the commisBioners at the Palmer House Thursday night. Addresses were made by several members, and it was officlally announced that the lake front as a site for tbe fair was deemed impracticable and had been abandoned by the directora o( the local organization. Senator Thomas W. Palmer, of Michig an, was on Friday nnanimouly eleoted president of the World's Columbian Exposltion, and John T. Dlckinson, ol Texas, was chosen as secretar?. Below is the full list of the cotnmi ioners, nearly all of whom ar bow harei AT LARGE. Commëtumm. AUrrnsttê. A. O. Bulinck, Masa. Henrjr Incalí. Mo. Thos.W. Palmer, Mich. James Oliver, Jr., In4 B. C. Kerens, Mo. R. W. Fumas, Neb. G. W. Alien, N. Y. L. Ftlzreralí, N. Y. P. A. B. Wldener, Pa. 3. W. Chalfant, Pa. Willlam Llndsay, Ky. P. J. Walah. 0%. Henry Exall, Tex. H. L. Klng, Tex. Mark McDonald. Cal. Thomas Burke, Wmgív. ALABAMA. 0. R. Hundley, William S. Hull, F. G. Bromberg. G. L. Werth. ARKANSAS. 1. D. Adams, J. T. W. Tillar, Lafayette Gregg. Thomas H. Leslle. CALIFORNIA. M. H. De Young, George Hazleton, William Forsyth. Russ D. Stephens. COLORADO. Fred J. V. Sktft, O. C. French, Eoawell E. Goodell. John A. Porter. CONNECTICUT. Leverett Brainard, Charles F. Brooker, Thomas M. Waller. Charles K. Baldwin. DELAWARE. W. H. Porter. Joshua T. Marvel, George V. Massey. William Saulsbury. FLORIDA. Richard Turnbull, Jesse T. Bernard, Joseph Hist. Dudley W. Adama GEORGIA. Charlton H. Way, John W. Clark, LaFayette McLaws. James Longstreet. ILLINOIS. Charles H. Deere, Lafayette Funk, Adlai T. Ewing. De Witt C. Smith. INDIANA. E. B. Martindale, Charles M. Travis, Thomas E. Garvín. William E. McLcaa. IOWA. W. I. Buchanan, Joseph Efboeck, William V. King, John Hayes. KANSAS. Eeese R. Price, Frank W. Lanyon, Charles K. Haliday, Jr. J. F. Thompson. KENTÜCKY. John Bennrt, D. M. Commingore, James A. McKcnzie. John S. Morris. LOUISIANA. Davidson B. Penn, Thomas J. Woodward. MAINK. Augustus R. Bixby, James A. Boardman, WUliam J. Davis. Clark S. Edwards. MARYLAKD. James Hodgos, George M. Upshur, Lloyd Lowndes. Daniel E. Conklin. MASSACHÜSETTS. Francia W. Breed, George P. Ladd, Thomas E. Proctor. Albert C. Houghton. MICHIGAN. M. Henry Lañe, Ernest H. Fisher, Charles H. Richmond. George H. Barbour. MINNESOTA. M. B. Harriaon, L. P. Hunt, O. V. Tousey. Thomas C. Kurtz. MISSISSIPPl. Eobert L. Saunders, Joseph H. Brinker, Joseph M. Bynum. Fred W. Collins. MISSOURI. C. H. Jones, R. L. Maodonald, T. B. Bullene. O. H. Picher. MONTANA. Lewls H. Hershfleld, B. F. White, A. H. Mitchell. Timothy E. Collin3 NEBRASKA. Albert G. Scott, John Lauterbaeh, Euclid Martin. William L. May. NEVADA. James W. Haineí, Enoch Strother, George Russell. Richard Rvland. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Charles D. McDuffle, Frank E. Kaley, Walker Aiken. George Van Dyke. NEW JERSEY. Thomas Smith, Edwin A. Stevens, William J. Sewell. Frederick S. Fish. NEW YOIiK. John Boyd Thacher, James Roosevelt, Chauncey M. Depew. James H. Breslin. sunra Carolina. A. B. Andrews, EHas Carr, Thomas B. Keogh. G. A. Bingham. NORTH DAKOTA. Hamline P. Ruckcr, Charles H. Stanley, Martin Ryan. Peter Cameron. OHIO. William Rltohte, Lucius C. Cron, Harvey P. I'latt. Adolph Pluemer. OREGON. Henry Klipycl, J. L. Morrow, M. Wilkius. W. T. Wright. PENNSYLVANIA. John W. Woodside, John K. Hallock, William McClellan. R. Bruce Ricketts. RHODE ISLAND. Lyman B. Goft, Jeffrey Hazard, Gardiner C. Sims. Lorillard Spencer. SOÜTH CAROLINA. A. P. Butler, H. P. Hammett, J. C. Colt. E. L. Roche. SOÜTH DAKOTA. William Mclntyre, L. S. Bullard, M. II. Uay. S. A. Kamsey. TENNESSEE. Thomas L. Williams, A. B. Ilurt, L. T. Baxter. Kusk btrong. TEXAS. John T. Dickinson, Lock McDaniel, A. M. Coohran. H. B. Andrews. v;:hmont. H. H. Mclntyre, Aldaee F. Walker. B. B. Smalley. Hiram Atkins. VIRGINIA. JohnT. Harria, Alex. McDonald, V. D. Groner. Chas. A. Heermans. WA8HTNG , Chas. B. Hopkins, 0. P. Fiagley, Henry Drum. Wm. Bingham. WEST TIUlIMA. J. W. St. Clair, W. Vrooman, James D. Butt. M. J. Finley. WISCONSIN. Philip Allon, Jr., ' E. Gordon, John L. Miu-luU. ion Reed. AI1I7.ONA. George F. Coa1 s, W. L. Van Hom, We Zechendorf. Heroert H. Hogan. DISTRICT OF rOI.UMIHA. Alex. T. Britton, E. Kurtz Johnson, Albert A. Wilson. Dorsey Claggett. IDAHO. George A. Manning. A. J. Crook, John E. Stearns. John M. Hurke. ÜKU1IOJ1A. J. D. Miles. Joseph W. McNeal, Othneil Beeson. John Wallace. n::w sm-'.xico. Richard M. White, Loviis C. Tetard, Thos. C. Gutierres. Charles B. Eddy. UTAH. Patrick H. Lannan, Wm. M. Ferry, Fred J. Kiesel. l halles Crane. wyomi.vi;. Asahei C. Beckwith, John McCormick, Henry G. Hay. Asa S. Mercer. Chicago, June 30.- At the meeting of the World's Fair National Commission Saturday Thomas M. Waller, of Connecticut; M. H. De Young, of California; D. 1!. Penn, of Louisiana; G. V. Allen, of New York, and A. B. Andrews, of North Carolina, were eleo ted Presido nis.