The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-20
The Herald's Regular Wash
ingtOn Special.
THE PUBLIC BUILDING BILL.
The Penitentiary -Legtslaeion for the
West-A Costly Constituent
"A Good Story.
THE PUBLIC BUILDING .

gate Game was before the Senat
committee on public buildings an,
grounds yesterday morning urgin
favorable consideration of The bill pro
vidlng for the erection of publ
bull ling in Salt Lake City. The mem
bsrs OF the committee conceded tn
point that Salt Lake City was entitle,
to building, but thought that tb,
amount asked for was unprecedented il
the case of a city of that size and popu.
Gtion. Mr.. Caine contended tina
Salt Lake City was the great metrop-
oils OF the whole inter mountain re.
gion; that IT had a great future
both IN wealth and population; that i,
would not be good policy on the part
OF the government to erect a small OF
| cheap building there. 1t should be
such as would reflect credit upon the
nation and the Territory of Utah as
we'll as Salt Lake City, and he called
attention to the liberal appropriations
made by the Territorial Legislature to
improve the site upon which it was pro-
posed TO erect the State Capital. He
also read the resolution of the City
Council rendering The old Arsenal site
to the United States upon VIII Oh
the public building could be
built, but the committee said that
proposition could not be entertained
unless the title to the lot was vested
absolutely in the United States. They
agreed, however, that it was an excel
lent site for all governmental business,
excep: for postoffice purposes, and the
postoffice, they held, should be as near
as possible to the business centre.
Senator Stanford, chairman of the
committee, spoke in very kind terms of
Salt Lake City and favored the erection
of good building there. In this, it i.
believed, the committee will concur.
THE PENITENTIARY.
The chairman of the subcommittee
of the House committee on public
and grounds. who has cha,g
of Delegate Gaines bill to increase the
for completing the new
Penitentiary in Utah. having asked
Acknowledgement Garland fo- an opir-
ion as to the pTopIiety OF IL easing the
appropriation, as contemplated in the
bill. has received a letter from that
official, in which he approves the prop
1sition and recommends the additional
appropriation. This will probably |
make the bill secure and certain,
LEGISLATION FOR THE WEST.
Among the incipient legislation now
waiting the close OF the tariff debate
an be found two bills. aud, although |
heir objects are comparatively I'M
Known. it will not be unreasonable to
ay that their passage means more to the
Western States and Territories and,
therefore,, to the whole country than
my other bills that have been or will be
during this Congress. Re-
preventative Symes, of Colorado, is the
n hor of both bills and he
las urged them before the
committee with never tirins
consistency. The first bill is known as
/. r. 9053 and its title says it is to aid
q the construction of a system of
eservoirs for the storage of water for
irrigation. In its provisions it enacts
hat there is to be granted to the State
# Colorado 100000 acres of the un-
public lands of the United .
ates, lying within salt State, for the /
suppose of aiding in the construction
t System OF reservoirs. The second !
ill III. r. 90E4) is more general in
Is nature, being for the development
nd uti!iZ ton of the water resources
Il the arid region for The purpose of 1
irrigation. The 'ceasure appropriates
ne sum of 5000 for the investigation
nd development of the water resources
f thu arid region CT the country and
he utii zaticn OF those rs sources. The
money l. to be expended in making (
photographic surveys of the States and
territories within the arid regions and {
rom such surveys to ascertain and To-
ate sites for reservoirs for the storage j
f water, for the irrigation Of the public j
ands and the advancement of agrlcul
ure. The mon Y is 10 be expended
nder the direction of the Geological
survey and the Director of the Geo {
ogical Survey is required to report his
to the first session of the
FIfty-frst Congress. The last section
1 the bill provides that all desert lands {
o reclaimed shall be subject to home !
tead entry, but provides that when
oil these reclaimed lands shall be paid
Of at Hininum price e So per acre
Talking with a Herald correspondent :
esteldly, MI. symes said he felt sa'-
sized that the bills would go through
hey were far more meritorious than |
many Of the sections OF tha river and {
arb0rs bills, by which more money 5
han these called for was expended I
There they could NOT possibly do good. {
n the Senate another effort vii be /
lade toward the same end, for Sena- S
DIS Bowen, Teller and Stewart have {
greed to insist on an amendment to 6
he river and harbor bill. appropriatiDg !
$50, 900 for the photographic survey I
nd for the construction of canals and {
eServoirs. 8
For mar Y yeers this project, which
radically proposes to draw up the
)untain heads of the many tributaries a
n thu Missouri and MiseIssinni and q