The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-07-07
The Capitol MIDDLE.


1t is astonishing how deity this cap |
itol building material muddle has been
engineered all through from its very
inception until this blessed moment.
Early last summer beautifully polished
pieces of Burnet granite in all sorts OF
fanciful shapes were industriously
distributed among the newspaper
Offices of Texas, and found their way
into many private offices, where they
were intended TO do tie most good.
No one knew exactly what this all
meant. II was an advertising dodge;
every one understood that much, but
lust what direction IL was to take no
one knew. The days dragged them
selves on slowly, until at last II began
to be whispered about that the Dat
manvillc rock, out of which the capt.
toll was being constructed, was play
ing out. The general public began to
get slight glimpses of the mouse in the
meal tub. II was a monstrous idea,
that the state had gone ahead and
predicated an enormous work on the
theory that the rock there was either
faulty IN quality or deficient in guam
tity after plenty of money had been
spent in determining these two
thugs. But so it seemed, and all the
state held up its hands in dismay
What then was to be done. Plainly,
nothing but substitute Burnet gran
tie for Oatmanville lime rock. That
WAS all very well, but to the scheme
of substitution was attached eight
hundred thousand dollars III
cost for difference in mate
| rial alone. To this Original
cost was to be added perhaps a. full
half million in difference in construc'
ton brought about by the change IL
) material. The syndicate nor the cap
ital board proposed to do this except
al the cost of the state, aud these pre-
liminary Establishments were made I,
: familiarike the public mind with thu
! idea of change, with the idea of th'
great superiority of Burnct granite
: and with the extra million or more II
cost. 1t was neat scheme, and as W.
have said above, was very deftl!
), managed. Directly IL became bruite'
9 about that one member of the capita
. board was a principal owner in th
o Burnett qusrries. Then the cat,
g well developed, fully clawed ANNA
sprang out of the bag with yells an
gyrations of peculiar yigor and force
D. The said member of the capital boar
: resigned, virtuously and self-abnega'
ingly, resigned. lie could not be COZ
= nected with or lcgislate upon matte
with which his personal pecuniar
10 interests were so intimately conncc
rs ed. Indignation swept the state
fierce gusts. Although piteously b.
= moaning the exhaustioDs OF Oaima'
willie and the necessity of the substit'
- ton, Burnet under the circun
stances, would not go down. VIII
next? What was to he done III
legislature banked Mt the difficult
1t lacked the backbone to !
% at the people in any such wa
and the nineteenth adjourn,
us aud left the board to graphic wi
1t. the matter alone. Il was shifting
their shoulders n mountain of rcspo
p" sponsibility. The board banked
IL was expected, and it stands baulk,
to-day. The consequence is that q
~ foundations of the new state capt.
an stand yawning for tho superstrr
ture, and the syndicate is revcling
the land grants already made to the
I'll on the ratio of completion egrc
al upon.
ny When 1t was found that Burn
would not go on any sort of tern
Ia the patriotism and state pride of I
m people were appealed to by the pr
"a position. buy lime rock in Indian
~, We don't believe that the India
scheme was in earnest at all. 1t "
dragooning measure. II must la
lat been known that his exccllenoy won
Isl veto the measure when the time can
is In the fullness of time the boa
OF agreed TO the Indiana project u
nothing was wanting but the gov,
:, nor's all important approval. This
m has come to be understood-and al
49, for the schemers, before the peOI
were dragooned into the Burnet ID
he would veto the measure as pre-
dent of the board. In the meantil
no we are without our capitol, and
3 chances really seem remote for Il
hat ting IL in any reasonable time, uni
en-. the board go back 10 Oatmanyille
the originally contracted. Some poiiti
heads will fall very low ON this p
position before long, and he will
AGO rated II lucky politician who has !
to the good sense to esGhew 1t.
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