The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1886-04-06

house refused to suspend the pending
business tu tukr uu tine hiIl lhu n,
u.ul kilicd IT, That hin was tu confer
un the capitol board aud capita
commissioners authority to chang,
Hoe capitol contract, so ~ io haNri
vcuccriug OF granite put ou the out
Idle ui The new capitol For tai,iugt,
pas the bill the nineteenth legislator,
VS.. abused, yillilied and bclittlc,
generally 10y the paper, friendly {,
mcmncrs ot the capitol board. The
members of the house were generally
u favor ot granite. but they had AT
opinion of the diplomatic powers %
& ul Ahnrr Taylor the contractor. s,
high that they were apprchcnsiy,
hat the states chosen representative,
ou the board and cummi- sion wuult
not hr able TO cope with him. la ul,
time uarlAncc th,S believed hr ~ uuI,
snap hem clean utnut.' Mat an ole
Texan ha- refused to give his sol
authority to tradc oI a horst. because
of precious bad trades The clpitu
hoard had made some precious ba,
trades " th Col TAYLOR. II there u
any, hing an Old Texan Hdmircs, it d
splendid trading abilities. INcy ad
mirc Col TAYLOR but with him the,
didn't want that capitol board IT, Il,
any trading. because lac had already
set II on much worse mag than II
started with
The capitol building commission
cr's report To the governor ct dat,
January /. 1855, shows changes ul
| specifications, Tor which no interest
OF TrNa. called They were worth
many thousand dollar. To- the con
tractor.
II would run this article to great
/ length to show all the injurious
changes in the capitol contract thai
/ have hcen made previous TO the ms
-cmhling of the 18th Legislature They
| have been sufficient tu convince me
| that that Legislature did right in re-
| iusiug to trust nny further discretion.
| urN powers to the capitol supervision.
/ \ few will he here sci forth;
Refer 10 page 81 OF the appendix To
said report. by lhi, change the ten
| SION strength Of the cement, for the
whole building, was reduced from
$50 pounds per square inch to 100
pounds. There was Ten be an expo
sure of one week after mixing. Ihr
$50 pounds was an almost imuus-thlr
specification. The best English aud
J liclg an Portland cement wall reach
500 pounds in one week and $3.50
pounds in ten days. Failing 10 be-
able To procure the 800 pounds -pcci-
lied strength the board would have
been justified in reducing 10 500 aud
taking the best Portland But that
then cost - 20 per barrel more than
the Louisville. The Louisville cr-
mcnt was taken and specifications
reduced TO 100 pounds by
that the saving to the contractor was
about ifly thousand dollars ou the
thirty thousand barrels necessary
The Louisville IL ID good common
ccmrnt. hut no mason ur maker of
artificial stone believes it,lul to
Portland, which now sells here ut
, - per barrel more than the Louis
willie. The gentlemen who lay slice.
walks here aud set curh-, buy and
u.c Portland, because they snN H."
other is reliable Captain Ead- for
The strongest OF his ictty work. bought
many thousand barrels OF Portland.
II H. presumed that, engineering AL
hi- life in the Mississippi aud ONO
valleys. lac knew all about Louisville
cement.
At the same time with this change
the stone specification in the con 'rcic
was changed SO as to putin Colorado
pebbles Instead of hard limcstou
broken iuto piece. OF two inches di
mcnsion. The use Of pebbles is gen
orally condemned ~ concrete, for the
reason that being sound aud smooth
lhry do not furnish good chnging
| sur nee for the cement mortar, where
II. hard broken limestone docs FUR
ush -uch',uriacc. The pebbles being
very abundant within lrs, lhnu mile
| did not cost ouc-third rs much rs the
broken limestone would have cost,
aud they were taken.
4 good deal has been SAID about
| the rubblc foundation for the dome"
"3s. An interior walls aud backing
| to the cut stone work will be built OF
| nat bcddcd stone, AS per sample No
/ Is. ON file with the commissioners
| lald on their natural beds, wei
( bpdded and banded together, To b,
! laid in thickness of curu,r IA That VIII
/ make "A regular aud true baud witt
/ the cut stone work will out the H.,
1 of >paws in any of sad work. ia,
/ Joints not to exceed three. uurih- nI
an inch in thickness, and juluicd VIII
cement, and each side OF tine wall I,
| he hid TO n true line
Those dome walls were fully foui
Zee, thick. lfthc cement in the above
modification had not been altered, bu
wn- the best Portland, there wuul'
have been no need of ANY change
When the cement was weakened thcl
it became necessary To build ~ diller
cnl wall under the dome.
A other change that wAS made
shown ON page ~ of said Appendix
IA wasthis: Around the whole build
iug. AT the top of the foundation, r.
granite water table, or pclt oi gran
' lie four or live feet wide. The ,pccl
q licalion called for finish on tai
known As Sand ruhh,d It, worth pc
, -uuarc foot, over one dollar NOR
! linn what is known ~" toCk iucr
u Tint specification wa- altered, ~ vi
F, hc seen on page named, hii
u the wutcr table has taken rock In
The change HpproNiuHlcd ten lhuu
-. and square feet, nnd was worm ih"l
u unu ten thousand dollars To the cui
=, tractor. There were several olh'
VI important changes utterly unnrr'7''
~ Tor any interest OF IcNhr,
These ARE enough Tor present pu
u poses. I hey were - lAll iudcA
" what the capitol board would do
given authority aud the house q"
w right In refusing to confer H.