The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-08
Asphalt Company at Work at
State House Once More.
Walks and Drives Will Be Com
pleted Without Delay.
TRUST TO FORTUNE
No Pay Unless Next Legislature
ApprOpriates.
Other News Cleaned in the State
Departments.

The Kansas City company which Sc
cured from the Populist executive coun-
Gil the contract for putting asphalt
walks and drives in the state house
grounds and did not complete the work
owing to the advance of cold weather
last fall, today commenced work to
complete the contract.
The company will complete the work
and then go before the legislature at the
next session to secure payment for it,
There is now about $4,000 in the fund
provided for this purpose and the con-
tract will amount to $25, 220.09 when the
walks and drives are completed.
The work which has already been
done has been pronounced unsatisfac-
tory both by the executive council
which made the contract and it's sue
cessors, the present state officers.
To remedy this difficulty the company
will go over the work already done and
put it in first class shape and then COM
plete the walks left unfinished when the
snow came last fall
The work already done amounts to
about $4,000. by measurement. Before
going out of office the Populists consid-
cred the ACCESSIBILITY of bringing suit
on the company's bond to compel the
completion of the walks and drives al
ready commenced in accordance with
meaning of the contract. Nothing was
done as the election interviewed and
made way for a new executive council
which at once announced that the
work would not be paid for because it
is not satisfactory. This announcement
put a stop to negotiations concerning
the work and the company sought to
secure. some arrangement with the pres
ent council whereby the contract could
be completed.
The council declined to have anything
tors. of their own volition, have re-
turned to complete the work and will
take the chance of getting paid through
the forthcoming session of the legisla-
ture.
r. B. Kepley, of this city, who put in
the curbing is also at work to complete
his part of the work which measures
$500 feet.
The work to complete the walks and
drives under the old contract is being
pushed without authority or interior
ence from the present executive council
The Republicans do not look with fav-
or upon the asphalt which is being put
down in the state house grounds and
declined to have anything further to do
with it The old contract is on file in
the Office of the secretary of state and
under the provisions of this instrument
the work to complete the walks was in
augurated today.
The paving company will then con-
tend with the legislature to secure pay
for the work. The present council viii
take no part the aTIalG at TINS TIME
except to approve the work if it is sat
asfactory. The council unless the
work succeeds better than that already
done, will be slow to approve it. and
without the approval of the council the
company would experience great diff
Guilty in getting the money for the work
Yet, the managers of the concern have
an abiding faith in the process which
they use in constructing walks and are
confident of their ability to put every
thing in a satisfactory condition.