The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-27
PUBLIC RuILpINe BILLS.
a Final Effort to have Those Pendin
Passed.

WASHINGTON, Aug. PA determined
and final effort is being made by those
members interested in pending public
building bills 10 have them considered and
passed at this session Of congress. A de-
mand was made to-day on the speaker and
his associates upon the committee on rules
TO have day set apart for the considers-
ton Of these bills The request was signed
by the thirty-six members, republicans and
democrats, whose public building bills were
passed by the committee of the whole
House last May, and have since that time
been on the calendar Of unfinished business.
A statement carefully prepared by Repre-
sentative Strube of Iowa, setting forth in
detail the facts about public building legls-
lation of this and the preceding congresses,
accompanied the demand.
SUMMARY OF THE STATEMENT.
A summary Of this statement is as fol-
lows:
l. That the gross sum of the allowances
for public buildings that have passed the
House this session, including that for the
w Washington pUstoftice, is So lS, $50 81, from
which should be deducted S3l5, 900 carried
In the bills vetoed by the President, leaving
total of S4,9j6 $50 81.
2 Of the foregoing amounts that have
passed the House only 1885, 900, exclusive
OF the $660.000 for tae Washington postof-
nee site, have been appropriated for use
during the next fiscal year.
8 The number of bills of this character
now on the unfinished calendar is thirty-six,
and the total amount of the limit as fixed
by the committee Of the whole Is 81 900.
THE TOTAL LIMIT OF COST.
T. On the basis of the actual appropriations
made thus far by the House on bills already
passed by it, were all these bills 10 become
laws and were the House at the present
session to appropriate for them the same
per cent as for the bills above referred to,
1t would require only about $1,000, 900,
making the total limit of the cost of all
such bills for the session 50, 6Sl. 639, and the
net amounts appropriated therefore for use
during the fiscal year S3J5. 900
D. The Fftieth congress appropriated
Sl2, 1888 at will thus appear are the
words of the petition, that notwithstand-
ing the enlarged needs of the country for
public buildings, this congress, so far as
the House is concerned, has very largely
fallen below the allowances made by the
tftleth congress. We submit that it would
be unjust to us to deny the House itself the
privilege of considering these bills, or such
OF them as it may desire to consider"
THE BILLS INVOLVED.
A list of the public buildings asked for is
subjoined: Bar Harbor, SIS, 0O0; Wankato,
$780, 600; Meridian, $4,000; Milwaukee, in
crease, $500. 900; Youngstown, O.. SIS, 1000;
Camden, Ark, S250O0 Sioux Falls, $780,
600; St. Albans, VT, $4,000; Stoc ton,
Cal, $4,000; Norfolk, Va, Sl5).OO0; Bea-
trice, Neb., 100000; Davenport, Ia, $780,
600; Rock Island, Ill, $4,000; Reidsville,
n. c, S25 900; South Bend. Ind, $4,000;
Fargo. N. D., 100000; Newberry, n Y,
$4,000 Madison, mn Ind; $4,000;
Ia, 100000; Lima, O., SIS, 900:
Portland, Ore, 100000; Haverhill, Mass
$4,000; Charleston, S. c.. $4,000; Bloom
Ington, Ill, 800, 900; Lewiston, Me-, SIS, 900;
Kansas City, Mo, S1,2)O,O0O; Taunton,
Mass. $4,000; Racine, Wis, 500, 900; Sa-
vannah, Ga, increase, 5000, 100; Pawtucket,
4. l.; $75, 0OOi Akron, O., 800, 900; Rome,
Ga; $1,000; Rockford, ILL.,, 100000; Fort
Dodge. Ia, S75, 900: Sheboygau, Wis, $780,
600. Total, $4,7l5,O0O