The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-26
AN OUTSIDERS IMPRESSIONS.
or the New State Capitol, and of Gov
McGraw.


DR.. C. X. Cole. one of the members of
the Montana capitol commission. who
went to Olympia week aw) TO talk with
the members of the Wash agton capitol
commission. has returned to Helena much
pleased with the result OF his visit. Scme
OF his observations will be % special in
terest TO people of this state, especially his
impressions of the state and its governor
and his commentator of the capitol com
mission for reserving the right 10 put IN
such heating and ventiaung system as
il may deem best. Or. Coj- said;
The Montana cC<hmiss;ion went 10 Olym-
pia at the invitation of the Washington
board. and IL was business trip. and while
we only spent one day at Olympia. think
we put the time to good use. We arrived
at Olympia Sunday nig..:. and on Monday
morning we met the arcnitece Of the Wash
ington state capitol. The old state house
is close TO the site for The new cns. and is
now used as the architects office TIE
new capitol has the foIGdation IN. which
Is a sort OF sandstone. and cost nearly &c.
00a The contractor lost about SIS 600 On
the work so the Washington commission
has not lost very much money so far. TIE
architect showed us all the plans fo~ the
Washington capitol. gong over each draw
ing In detail. and giving us sort OF
lecture on the plans. IL was not only inter-
esting. but II was instrIytive also.
I'm the afternoon we met the Washing
ton commission. They told US OF all their
experiences so far as they had gone. The
board there is composed OF the governor
and the state auditor. n addition to TIE
members appointed by tn governor. l was
particularly impressed with Gov. Mc(iraw.
He struck me as 4 very shFewt and sa-
eacious business man, ami found that
was his reputation in the state. Two
points that I remember particularly were
brought out during our conference. One
a. h. hna tive al NaT 4 q
the new building. II was my ides before
I met the Washington people that when we
accepted the plans OF the architect they
should include the syst I'm Of heating and
vcutiIating over there. while the archl-
tsct presents a system o. ventilating and
heating the board reserves the right TO
put in the system il may select. That Is
10 say. the board says What Il wants and
then the architect makes the details 10
conform with e. Af-e- Gov. MrGraw had
explained ths advantages n TINS sepsra-
ton OF the bui'li7g as a whole from Tie
two items nen..o .sd l became convert
70 IT,
pint the subject OF most interest 10 Us
contiru4a DR. Cole twas the financial
question Washington has ls2es acres Tor
its capitol building. and Montana has lsZ,-
on acres The bills providing Tor the erec-
ton az state capitols in Washington ana
Montana are almost identical save that
law draw per cent interest, while ours
draw but Z over there they made Up a
case and took IL 20 the supreme court 20
test the question whether they could dis
pose OF all the warrants in bunch, and
thus have the cash 20 pay their bills. and
at the same time prevent the hawking CT
warrants The supreme court decided the
commission had the right 10 sell all the
warrants al one time and get the million
dollars. I believe the sale was to have
taken place today.
'sof course. when the time comes, we
can have the same sort OF test IN our
supreme court. As you know, we now
have one case before the supreme court
In that two questions are involved one
is as TO the standing Of Gen Lloyd and
Senator Flowerree on the commission The
other is as 10 whether the state board
must audit the bills % the commission. or
whether thu board itself shall audit them
We look for a decision from the court on
Monday.
Meantime. however" he continued.
'awe are not spending anything much ex-
cept our time. Certainly Ee have not spent
much money. But nevertheless we are not