Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-03-03

COn>truCtiOU-Statc Fair at North
Yakima Hirnniai Census TroVi-
sion Repeated appropriations fer
state Reads Legislature Resolve
To Visit Everett The Governor
..Grt IcH'' on ~ Veto.
The new revenue law passed the
Senate, Tuesday. 1t excmpts church
property.
Van de Nanter of King introduced
memorial urging Congress to speed
lily appropriate sum sufficient t.
construct that portion OF the LAX,
Washington canal from tide water t
Lake Union and from Lake Union Il
Lake Washington in the specifies,
manner consistent with good work
The memorial was laid on the table
subject to call.
The Committee on Public Building.
rendered most favorable report or
the Richards capitol bill, urging tn,
immediate disposition of the land,
granted for that purpose, and appro
priating $250,O0O for the coming fisca
year and $4,000 for the year after
The report is as follows:
Your committee to whom has beer
referred Senate bill No. Ill, providin,
for an act entitled An act to provide
for the location and erection OF CAPT
tOl building, and declaring an emer
gency," respectfully report az follows
BY the provisions OF sections II ant
II of the enabling act, the federal gov
eminent granted to the State of Wash
ington 1872 600 acres of land for the
construction of public buildings at the
State capital. of this amount 57,14;
acres have been selected by the State
Land Commission, and their value ap
praised at $l,235,640. At the same
rate the entire grant will be worth be
tween two and half and three mil
lion dollars.
Public sentiment and sound view
of the public welfare alike require tina,
these lands be disposed of as soon a.
practicable in order that they may be
added to the productive resources and
to the assessable wealth of the State
and bear their proper burden of taxa
ton. The large sum that the State
must necessarily realize from this
valuable grant insures the erection oil
q magnificent capitol building that
will meet every necessity of this State
for generations to come without a
particle of expense to the tax payers.
The sale of these lands will soon
place in the Treasury a very large sum
of money which can be devoted to no
other purpose than that of the cree.
ton of public buildings at the State
Capital.
These considerations make it adj
visable to enter at once upon the
erection of capitol building, to pre-
vent the accumulation of this fund
in this Treasury. The building of a
capitol must necessarily extend over a
period of several years. By beginning
the erection of capitol now, we thall
be able 10 make the work OF constrac-
ton 60 hand in hand with the collec-
ton of the proceeds from the sale OF
the lands, thus promptly putting these
funds to the use for which they were
intended. and employing the produc-
ing classes Of the State, and saving the
accumulation OF vast sums in the
Treasury where they cannot be used
for the benefit Of our tax pay.Fs CT
the producing classes.
The fact that ct no time in the
past could the work be accomplished
cheaper than now, and that It 10 hot
likely to be cheaper at any future
time than it is at present. and that at
no time in the history of the State
has the demand for employment by
those of our citizens who toll, been
more acute and imperative, strongly
reinforces the argument for the early
commencement OF this beneficial and
important work.
1t is not necessary here to empba.
size the imperative necessity for ade-
quate facilities for the conduct of pub.
lie business. The cramped offices that
the State officers are obliged to put up
with. the wholly unsuitable chambers
in which the deliberations of this body
and OF the House have been conducted
forcibly impress upon Us the necessity
of erecting a proper State house with.
out unnecessary delay.
| Conceding the wisdom md necessity
for the early erection of q capitol
building, Senate bill No. III, the bill
accompanying this report, seems ad'
mirably calculated to secure the object
in manner most advantageous to the
State. Every safeguard is thrown
about the selection of plans, the letting
of contracts, the purchase of material
the employment of labor and the ex'
penditure of money, go that the chance
of loss to the gtate is reduced to 9
minimum. OF the fyS commissioner
who are to have the building Ia charge
three are State Offices, thus relieving
this commision-burdened State of ar
expensive commission. The heavy
bond required of the two commission
ers who are not State officers and thu
severe penalties imposed for any par
, ticipation, however remote. ia any
contract connected with the building
or the furnishing OF supplies therefor
insure an absolutely clean manage
mont of this great public enterprise
The amplest competition 10 invited
and required by public notice for the
letting of bids for construction or ma
terial furnished in excess of the sun
of $500. The appropriation is limited
to 1925 900 for the ensuing fiscal year
and $4,000 for the following fisca
year.
Inasnuch as none OF this money il
to be paid by the taxpayers OF thu
a.. State and Is likely to come well with
in the limit of the probable proceed,
from the sale of the public lands o
the State and can be paid only from
the fund created by those sales, Il
, seems to your committee that the sun
called for ought TO be appropriated
: The bill provides that the buildin@
! shall be located on the most slightly
and most suitable place in the present
capitol grounds, The title and pos
: session of these grounds having beer
i. in the Territory, now State OF Wash
ington since 1855. In addition to thi,
tract Of upwards Of IL acres the peopl,
of the city of Olympia have recently
procured deeds to the State of Wash
, ington for an avenue 100 feet in
width, leading from Main street to tn,
center of the capitol grounds on th'
west, the reasonable value of which
tract Is $4,000. This will furnish .
handsome apprQach to the capitn