Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-27
STILL MORE DELAY.
THIS TIME 1T is THE ARCHITECT
AT FAULT.

The Commission Will, However,
Make Ready, by Grading the
Grounds and Digging the Cellar.
for which Contracts Will he
Awarded After go Days, Adyer-
Using.
The Capitol Commission met Tues
day, but had little to do, as the re-
studied" plans had not been received
from the architect. 1t seems strange
that as thoroughly competent as Mr..
Flagg is claimed to be, he should
have been compelled to make such
radical changes in the interior Of
capitol building, for which he has
model at nearly every State capitol in
the Union. How he should have pro-
vided accommodations for the State
Library in room considerably smaller
than that provided for the State Treas
urer, seems unaccountable, unless he
imagined that free silver would ulti-
mately triumph and the vaults be kept
continually filled with Populists' dol
lars. We may indulge reasonable
hope that what is left of the original
plan and its amendments will be re-
ceived sometime before the snow flies,
for the Commissioners telegraphed for
him to send all his plans at his earliest
convenience.
Advertisements for bids for grading
will be inserted in Republican news
papers at Seattle, Spokane and in this
city Immediately, for the excavation,
which will run 90 days.
The following series of resolutions
were adopted by the board, the Olyns-
plan ingenrously says, to show /" how
anxious they are to get the building
under way:
WHEREAS, Ernest Flagg, OF New
York city has prepared and sent to
this commission specifications for the
surface grading and cellar excavations
of the proposed new capitol building;
WHEREAS, 1t appears that the de-
tailed plans and specifications OF the
entire building are not yet complete,
and
WHEREAS, In the judgment OF the
commission it is desirable to proceed
with the work of constructing the
building to the extent of calling for
bids for the surface grading and cellar
excavations as a separate contract,
Now be it Resolved, That the Secre-
tary of the commission be and he is
hereby authorized, empowered and d.
rected to advertise for bids for period
of twenty days in accordance with law.
for doing said surface grading and
cellar excavating on the new capitol
building, according to the plans and
specifications thereof, submitted by
the architect. Ernest Flagg; that the
Secretary be and he is hereby directed
in such notice or advertisement to re-
serve the right to reject any and all
bids.
Be it further Resolved, That nothing
in this resolution shall be held or con-
strued to bind the commission to the
final adoption of the plans OF the State
Capitol building now in preparation
by the said Ernest Flagg unless upon
the completion of such plans and
specifications and their examination
by the commission, it shall appear to
the satisfaction of the commission,
that the building provided for in said
plans and specifications can be fin
ished in accordance with the require
ments Of law within the appropriation,
namely, within 81, 100000.
"The purpose in view by the COM
mission in calling for bids, for the
grading and excavation OF the grounds
at this time is to avoid as far as posi-
BILE, any further delay in beginning the
construction of the building"