St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-30
STATE CAPITOL.

On the whole we believe the COM
mission has made good start and the
indications are that the states interest
Will he looked after honestly and in
business like manner.-Canton Leader
s. site for the new capitol has been
selected by the capitol commissioners
at cost OF $685. 200. This is the prop
erty that the owners asked $500, 900 for
when the matter was first broached.-
Alexandria News.
The city of st. Paul should have do
mated the site for the sake of retaining
the capitol. The people of the state
generally believe that IL the matter had
been handled properly in the interest
OF the state this result would have been
attalned.-Austin Transcript.
This commission has been at work
since early last summer, endeavoring to
obtain desirable situation for the
building without paying the exorbitant
prices asked by the capitalists, who, in
most cases, were the owners of the prop
erty Observation-Disclosures Democrat.
A new capitol site has been selected
some blocks from the old site ON the st.
Paul and Minneapolis lnterurban eiec-
tTle line. We are glad to note this, as it
settles the question of new buildings.
The commissioners have done WE'LL
Dakota County Tribune.
st. Paul will strain every nerve to
secure the new capitol, but great many
people are opposed to spending millions
OF dollars for new capitol when times
are so hard, and will probably elect
men to the legislature who will assist in
piucking the capitol flower before it
goes to seed.-Litchfield Saturday Re-
view.
A new capitol would be nice thing
for the state to have, and, if there were
prospects of better times inside of the
next five years, the people might be
willing to build one, provided it was
placed where it belongs, at Midway,
and where the best Site can be secured
tree OF cost to the taxpayers.
Lake Review.
At last the state capitol commission
has selected and purchased a site for
the proposed new state building. Two
squares have been purchased at the
head OF Wabasha street. st. Paul, for
the sum of S256, 075. This is the same
tract that was formerly held at $3.50, 900,
until the state press made such howl
that the st. Paul real estate sharks
came to their ses.-OrtonYille Her
ald-Star.
1t is in st. Paul, of course. and, if we
may believe the statement of the city
dailieS. more desirable location could
not have been found anywhere else in
the state, Oh, no: certainly not! And
the price paid is a mere bagatelle.
Nothing to what the property is worth
Nevertheless, it makes quite siZeable
hole in the 100000 appropriation
Sherburne County Times.
The minority rule yielded by the
United States senate is quickly followed
by the st. Paul ring, in giving 1856, 075
for capitol site against the wish of
the entire state; when a choice location
could have been had for nothing. A
ring is hard to beat. no matter how great
the majority against it. But it's none of
our business; all we have to do is to pay
the taxes and keep our mouths shut
Morris Sun.
The state capitol commission bought
about eight acres of ground some three
blocks from the present site, and the
price paid was 1856, 075. This is about
half what the real estate sharks first de-
handed, but just the same it was an eX-
pendlture unnecessary to the state, as
other localities, aud just as suitable
ones, would gladly have contributed the
needed ground without cost.-Lanes-
boro journal.
The capitol site has finally been Sc
lected at cost OF S256, 900, as against
$3.50, 900 asked for this same piece of
land some months ago. The reduced
price is satisfactory to the commission.
and Will undoubtedly be to the state at
large. On the whole, we believe the
commission has made a good start, and
the indications are that the states in
terests will be looked after honestly
and in buSiness-Iike manner.-Preston
Times.
1t may be well enough for Minnesota
to have new capitol building, one
more commodious, on larger grounds,
and more becoming One of the first
states in the great Northwest; but it
would look better to wait until the la
boring classes have sufficient work to
do to enable them to pay the taxes on
their homes. 1t is all right for the rich
to increase the taxes, but it would be all
wrong for the poor to do it with the
present outlook of business, with hard
times bearing down heavily upon so
many.-Detroit Record.
There is no need of new capitol yet,
and the taxpayers of the state are not in
shape to put up from $4,000, 600 to SlO,-
900 for something they can do without.
The people OF the state are not able to
pay the expense of booming st. Paul
when wheat is selling for 4S cents, and
the country has received a setback
from which it cannot recover for the
next four years. But what is the use of
talking, st. Paul wants the new build
ing and it is going up. 1t will put an
additional burden upon the people, but
1.-The people be ID" they have moth
ing to say about it.-Battle Lake Re-
view.
The location is undoubtedly good
one, and the purchase price reasonable
enoug h, and frcm st. Paul point of
view the whole business is o. <. But
the people of the balance of the state
cannot help but feel that St. Paul
should have donated site for the privi-
lege of retaining the capitol. As good
site could have been gotten in Mime
apolis free of cost, but the three-quarter
mile limit in the capitol bill gave the
commissioners no alternative except To-
cate it in st. Paul, or not locate it at all.
Minnesota's capital building is not in
keeping with the immensely and wealth
OF this great commonwealth, and it is
proper that we should have a new
building, but the provision in the capt.
tol bill limiting the location of a new
site TO three-quarters of a mile of the
present one was inserted at the instance
of the st. Paul real estate men, aud
should never have gone in. - Polk
County journal.