St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-07
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During the coming working season it
is very probable that the new structure
will attain roof and apex. If material
can be produced for the requirements of
succeeding iron contracts, it is likely
that st. Paul will know the shape and
contour of the new structure by Dec. l
this year. 1t will probably require two
years more to finish and furnish the
building within.
There has been much rumor as to the
probable addition to the building of a
Sixth street front. The opinion pre-
walls that the chief effort Of the repre-
sentalives in congress should be to pro-
cure much-needed addition to the
present appropriation of Ss0O,0O0, and
that when an increase is added the
matter of
Sixth Street Front
should be first in the additional feat.
ures to be recognized. Kansas City,
with a far smaller white population
than st. Paul, received an appropria-
ton of million and half. The work
there, 1t is said, has been idle for over a
year. In Milwaukee, where the appro-
priatiGn is 81, 400, GOO, the walls of the
| building have been reared only few
| feet above the ground in three years.
| Thus. it seems, where the apprOpria-
ITEMS have been ample, there is an en-
/ tire want of the diligence which has
characterized the superintendent OF
| the st. Paul building, the approDria'
ton for which is concededly inadequate.
There is room on the st. Paul site for
an addition Of 100X90 feet-a provision
which, if made, would add materially &c
the term OF the structure for federal
purposes. Presumably the plans of the
structure are being drawn so as not tt
exceed in cost of their execution, the
sum originally appropriated. There
fore, if some succeeding congress shOulC
add to the appropriation, the sum 81
added will be very much reduced by the
necessary tearing down and recon
struction Of the intersgranite walls now
being built on the Sixth street side
Whereas, if that which may eventually
be added could be anticipated at Gnce
and the plans of the structure modified
revised and extended TO specify how the
additional appropriation shall be used
the greater benefit and economy are Oh
viouS
During Congressman Kiefer's activity
upon the stump last fall he vigorously
pictured the probability Of an increase
Before Col. Kiefer left Washington Il
visit this district in the interest Of hi
reelection the congressional committee
on public buildings and grounds haC
already submitted its report recon-
mending an increase of $500, 1000. Thi:
recommendation was proffered in ma
jority report of the committee, which
report was offered to the house as early
as August.
This report was, however, vigorously
| opposed by the minority report of Rep
resentative John l.. Bretz. whose pro-
fuse assertion that an additional appro-
priation would prove a fragrant waste
now that the building had been planned
and partially constructed seems TO have
had the effect of making nullity OF the
work represented in Col. Kiefer's cam
paign cry.
To GLOBE reporter who visited Hon.
E. p. Bassford, who is the local super
intendent of construction, that gentle
man said only that he was gratified al
the progress In the construction made
this year, (which was due to many things
COMMUNICATIVE good weather, the dill
gent aid of the department at Washing
ton, and the prompt activity Of local
contractors, coupled with his personal
aim to finish the building at the earliest
day. When asked for information con-
corning any additional appropriation, he
said that matter was still pending in
congress. The probability of an ade-
quate appropriation for the new post
office is therefore speculation.