Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-24
THE PosToFFIcE BUILDING.

The success of Senator Stanford in Sc
curing an increase of $4,000 in the APP
preparation for the public building in Sac
ramento has been seconded in the House
by Mr.. McKenna, and the sum has been
raised $4,000 more by the committee re-
porting the bill, with the total Of $780,
600. This will send it back to the Senate
for concurrence, but it is certain to be
there approved. We may hope, therefore,
for the speedy passage of the measure, and
that another year will see the building
well advanced. The people of the district
Will not forget the services of Representa-
tive McKenna in securing the appropria-
ton where it was most endangered A
dispatch of yesterday conveys the in
formation that Mr.. McKenna will now
make an effort to get the bill
through some time this week. 1t was
right thing to do to order a public build
ing erected here in the first instance. As
matter of economy it was a wise
step. The only regret is that the de-
lay in getting things into practical
shape has been so great. The Government
has selected the ground and it has been
paid for and is in possession of Federal
authority. Another lot adjacent to it
should be added to the original purchase
and the increased appropriation will just
ify it. Philosophical citizens have Sc
cured the refusal of this lot for the Gov
eminent by pledging their personal credit.
When the bill shall have finally passed,
there viii remain but one obstacle 10
commencing work upon the structure the
coming fall, and that is the abandonment
OF jurisdiction over the ground by the
State of California That action cannot
be taken until the Legislature meets in
January, 1889. But if, as it has done in
other cases, the Federal Government will
waive the abandonment for short time,
several months of time can be gained in
advancing the work That is to say, if
the Government can be prevailed upon to
order the plans drawn, specifications pre-
pared, contracts let, etc, prior to the meet
ing of the Legislature, the whole scheme
will be advanced by nearly a year. If
however, no preparatory steps can be
taken and nothing whatever done until
after the Legislature acts, it will be far
into next spring before the Federal au-
thorities will begin to make ready for the
work, and a second rainy season will set in
long before the walls of the structure are
up. What needs to be done now, there
fore, is to continue the effort to secure the
waiver of the abandonment for few
months. If that is achieved, all the prob
abilities are that the building will at least
be under roof when the rain of 1889
comes on.
THE New York Ecening Post sees fit to
take up Mr.. Cleveland's cudgel in the
trouble with the Grand Army Posts 1t
insists that it understands the aims and
purposes of the Grand Army better than
the membership. Now, if respectable
number of the Grand Army in New York
an Brooklyn feel so aggrieved because of
the position of the Democratic Admins
tr;'tion upon pensions, and the disposition
OF battle flags and other matters. that
they do not wish to be reviewed by
Mr.. Cleveland IL seams 70 rs that thair
objections are worthy of hearing. More
over, since the Grand Army organization
is exactly upon level with other CONTRA
ternities, and is socially, politically and in
every other way on the plane of Odd Eel
iowship, Redmanship, Masonry, and all
other private civic associations, that it is
the business of the Order when and before
whom it will march, and not the concern
OF anyone else. When the Post declares
that this sort of thing is rapidly making
people weary of the Grand Army" it is to
be replied that it is the Grand Army's af-
fair alone and not matter iustifying abuse
1t. Even admitting, for arguments sake,
that it is in bad taste, and rude and indie
feasible to object to the President of the
United States reviewing Decoration Day
parade in New York, it is the great
American privilege of the Grand Army
men to act in that way-as they say in
Arkansas, " there's no law agin it."