Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-03-24
STATE AFFAIRS
And Capital City News of State
Interest.

Condition OF the State House.
Work on the state capitol building
will stop before many weeks. The ap-
preparations made by the legislature last
year only provided money enough to
put the building in shape to stand idle.
The appropriations were, for building
steps on the north and south fronts,
ST, 1860; for completion of present con-
tracts, $4,000; for laying concrete floors
and protecting work already done, $685.
40; for completion of the basement Of
the south wing as early as practical,
$4,000.
This work is all nearing completion.
The coppering on the dome is largely
finished, only the ribs remaining uncov-
cred. The north and south steps are
well along towards the end and the bar
rem windows are being boarded up to
stand and peer as the great, sightless,
pitiful eyes of a noble work, suffering
to be completed.
The finishing touches are now being
put on the first floor of the south wing,
that is to relieve to a limited extent the
very crowded condition of many of the
state offices. 1t is receiving a Temporal
~ finish in light wood and with its
sparkling white walls will make some
fine office rooms. On the east side of
the south wing the supreme court com
missioners will be given quarters, and
they will soon vacate the sky parlors
they have been occupying in some of
the senate committee rooms on the third
floor Heretofore the commissioners
have been bundled off down town when
the legislature was in session.
Another change will be to take the
Colonel Goss collection of birds to the
new rooms. The room occupied by the
collection will then be transformed into
the adjutant generals office. This move
will be for the purpose of giving more
room to the attorney general who is
probably the worst crowded man in the
building. He has no private Office and
only little closet of a room besides the
general room for all his clerks and many
visitors. He will be somewhat relieved
by having the east partition cut through
and being given the present quarters of
the adjutant general
The supreme court remains unrelieved.
The most digniied body in the state
house viii continue to hold its sessions
in the clerks office.
The state library is another depart
ment that has been sadly crowded.
Valuable state documents have had to
be slowed away in all kinds of places.
Some in the attic to be damaged by
heat; others in the basement where there
are rats and coal dust.
The state historical society-well, step
in sometime, and if you see where
Judge Adams could store another book
or relic, he would probably be glad to
| have it shown him. And here the in
convenient basement is again used to
| file all the newspapers, that valuable
collection that will furnish, some day, a
/ wonderful store for the historian.
The board of pardons is stuck away.
up in the northwest corner of the west
/ wing, in a little room that must also be
vacated as soon as the legislators arrive.
The State Board of Agriculture has
| to do all its work in the museum that
should be devoted to the public, and
! the labor commissioner has three clerks
| and all his voluminous documents in a
little room not large enough for single
bedroom.
And so it goes.
AS one of the state officials said,
''this would not be so bad if we did not
have great building here hanging over
us, all but completed.