The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1893-07-01
FRANKFORT, JULY l, 1893,
Frankfort for the Next Century.

SUaHUly Retarded Dy Un6 apparent uh-
certainty as to whether or not the
Capital would remain here perma-
nently. This cloud hung over all
her interests and perpetually threat
ened her prosperity. Those persons
in various parts of the country who
really desired to locate at the seat Of
government and raise their families
where they would have all the bene-
fits supposed to flow from a constant
association with the leading persons,
and the best thought of the Cover
nors and chosen representatives. of
the people have been deferred from
investing their means in houses or
business in Frankfort for fear of the
possible removal of the seat of gov
eminent to some other place. That
fear has now passed away forever,
and the capitalist and ambitious
citizen desiring to rear his children
at the seat of government need no
longer hesitate-the ghost of capital
removal has vanished forever.
The adoption Of the new Consti-
tuition, in the fall of 1891, containing
the provision that the Capital should
remain permanently at Frankfort un-
less removed by two-thirds vote of
all the members of both houses OF the
General Assembly, by majority of
nearly $4,000 votes of the people,
indicating very clearly that the peo-
pie of the State deliberately intend
ed to say that they desired and ex-
pected the seat of government to re-
main at Frankfort for the next CEN
fury to come, and this preference
has been emphasized and confirmed |
by the recent vote on this subject |
taken separately at different times in |
the Senate and House. The vote in
the Senate was taken over a month |
ago on simple resolution to take
the sense of the Senators as to |
whether it was desirable to remove |
the seat Of government at all, which
gave the removalists an opportunity |
to unite and combine all their votes |
against Frankfort, but when the vote
was taken only7 Senators out Of the |
entire body voted in favor of remov-
al. The removalists, having lost in the
Senate, then determined to test their |
strength in the House where there |
are 100 members; and after bringing
every legitimate argument and influ-
ence to bear the removalists were only |
able to cast 81 votes, little more
than one-half the number Of votes |
necessary to pass the measure in the |
House. And now with all these |
votes fresh in their minds, the people |
of Kentucky, within the next few
mouths, will nominate and elect full |
Senate and a full House of Repre-
sentatives to assemble at Frankfort !
next January, to carry out the will of
the voters Of the State 30 emphati-
cally and SO recently expressed.
There can be no doubt that the |
members of the next Senate and |
House will feel themselves instructed |
by the 10000 majority for the new
Constitution, and by the recent over
whelming vote in both Senate and .
House in favor of Frankfort, to the .
effect that the Capital removal fight .
which has lasted for hundred years,
is now happily ended, and that it
will be their duty, as well as their
pleasure, to vote the small appropri-
alton which will be necessary to
cree a decent State House at Frank
fort. 1t will not require five or six
millions Of dollars, as it might have |
required if all entirely new capito |
building would have had to been .
erected in some new place; in fact the .
appropriation of one-tifth Of that |
amount will be all that will be re-
quired at Frankfort, where other
buildings on the ground already own
ed by the State can be utilized, and
this is true whether the main build
ing is added TO the wing on the old
State House square, or whether all .
the present buildings on the square
are taken for Auditors office and
offices Of other heads Of departments,
and the main capitol building erect
ed on the beautiful ground now own
ed by the State on East Main street,
Immediately in front of the Feeble