New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-15
THE NEW CAPITOL INVESTIGATION

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. CONCERNING Mr.. GILMAN's TEs-
TIMoNY BEFORE THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OF
THE STATE SENATE.
To .the EditOr OF The Tribune.
SIR: The telegraph always makes wild Work
with tho TerminOlOgy Of Architecture. IL gets along
perfectly well with the technical terms or law, ana
fairly with those OF medicine and theology; out as soon
as it ventures into the domain OF architectura'
styles or orders it seems to DO all abroad
In fact. If 1t should again alIude to one
Of the ord as the Pointed onc and to another as the
Open Cathartic Ns the Personal Column" OF Hdrpers
asserted it had already done) 1t could scarcely 90
beyond tho areuge line o. some OF It's recent perform
ances. For example, in my testimony given before the
Finance Committee OF the Senate on the evening OF the
18th inst f0d the Geographic news Of the next morn
ing reporting the following extraordinary aud unintei-
lgible tumble. viz:
On the crossex animation he admitted that he and
Mr. Fdller present architect IN charge at the New
the Italian, Mr. Fuller to the Dorc The two schools
differed widely did The two leading schools OF med
cine" Thus 10 stands in your own JOurui OF SATURDAY
And doubt more than thousand ana one archtecte
road 1t on That morning aud (knOwns that Tue DoIe
order was always freely in Italian RenaIssance)
their professional heads and wondered what
the deuce ne meant Dy that.
What did say, and what beg you will do me the
Justice to repeat this viz. that tho design OF the
New Capitol was made by myself. aud purely Of
Italian Renaissance that the architect who Is now
iutru ted with carrying this Italians work was
brought in widely different chool-that or the
advanced English Gothic mot Doricand had little or
no sympathy with the Renaissance and that In fact
the principles. methods, and details OF the two
styles differed as widely" &c., &c / ADDED,
what am sure every person in the crowded
library Of the Senate who heard will recoec that
in bls own lue-that of Gothic desgn-Mr Fuller was
an excellent architect" As to having admitted on
crosse animation that 1 wanted to supersede Mr..
Fuller, &C." If the dispatch had stated that on my
direct examination for more than two hours mad been
showing what waste and leakage had occurred
under the present administration OK Capitol matters
that so per cent OF what had been appropriated
for tho work Tor about s26jO,0O) had totally
disappeared, evaporated. and could not possibly
10 accounted for any measurement or valuation or
the work. and that had offered to the Senate Commit
tee to put my shoulder 20 the wheel 10 stop the
waste and confusion by putting the whole under con-
tract and agreed finish the building ready for occu-
pancy exclusive Of towers, for the sum OF about
81 GjOOOo II would have given the spirit OF my test-
nony more nearly. 1t is not necessary TO say that
admitted on crossexaminatiOn," as II 1t had been
yrung out Of me unwingly, what had IN fact occu-
uied these two OF direct examination IN insist
ing Oh ana endeayorng to prove.
haye already stated in your own columns that vas
highly incened being dropped from the execution Of
nyogn work; the affair had landed just where knew It
would viz: Five millions aud half spent, and tho work
about ono third done that had TO believe that
the only reason was dropped was that stood in the
way OF the that was prepared to be carried out
and that If allowed return and put the work under
contract | could finish 1t for one-third of the
prices these Commissioners had. all along been pre-
tending TO pay. And IL thore Is anything dlshon-
orabo or unCerlanded in admitting on
cross examiBston" what had twice published IN one
OF the most widely circulated journals IN the country,
confess my inability 10 discover IT, TO so much OF my
testimony leasr, am perfectly wiling 10 assist IN
giving the EXTENDED publicity Very respectfully,
your Obedisut servant, ARTHUR GILMAN.
40. 273 Fylhace., March 10, 1875.