The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-01-14
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lu thc acts of 1895, page
- was certainly the under
lg off the senate and il was
Repeatedly upon the floor In
81 upon this resolution that the
D. "disinterestod expert meant
the architect who should be
pioyei under this resolution 10
aka the examination of the build
'g should under no circumstances
ie "a competitor for the plans of the
new building Ii was the desire of
the legislature. as / believe, and |
know of the senate that the archi-
toct who made this examination
should not be influenced in the
slightest degree by the fact that if
the capitol was dangerous and that
the building was IN such a state
that it could not Doe repaired, 10.
would thereby afford him an oppor
Wnity 10 compete for the plan
The Governor selected Mr. Wealth
ers, of Memphis, Tenn, a member
of the architectural firm of Weathers
d Weathers, TO make this inspection,
who reported the capitol TO be dan
gerous and thereupou the legisla
ture passed q resolution appointing
the governor the secretary Of state
and the attorney general a commit
tee to advertise for plans and spec
iticatiou for a new capitol and 10 col
late the same and obtain all inform
alton possible and report fully to
the next legislature.
CAPITOL COMMITTEE USURPA-
TION.
When the legislature met in eN-
uaordinaly session in 1897 they We're
faced with the fact that this COM
mittee I'm violation of the resolution
of the legislature had TO cOllated all
Of these plans and had absolutely
disobeyed the letter and the spirit
of the resolution, employing an az
rhitect to examine the condition of
the capitol and had selected the
plans of Messrs. Weathers q Wealth
ers, of Memphis. Tenn, and had
sent every other plan back to the
architects. Eighteen architects had
completed for the plan of the capitol
and the Governor in his message TO
the legislature had endorsed every
one of these architects and in effect
had endorsed every one of their
a.gus and used this language in his
message
AS The report shows the com
.iftes had a cousiderablenumber of
plans before them and they We're all
excellent. drawn and presented by
skulfui architects and accomplished
Gentlemen ana while 1t required no
effort 20 select q good plan there was
n great difficulty IN making deter
minati0u
The committee tu their report to
the legislature said.
- An examination o.. a. plans ggcu-
bied several days, each Oh. Infect be
Inc allowed all the -me desired to
explain his designs.
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YEA IEttN PLAN .'l-'si-.. - Ell
1t was found that one of he firm
of Weathers & We4thers was on the
pround with his plans and -pgcifi-
cations and almost confident and in
fact entirelvso that he had obtajued
+be p,ize and that his plans would
be finally a1oDted by tine legisIa-
t1ra. and q lobby was already or
oanizad when the LEGISLATURES qas-,,-
blsd and LARGE c9ntr5r+ira frm
had its representative IN .Tsrlyson
baking ta ~ s1,p+io, If The
WaarheI- MAN and avnaatiug IN hid
r-a0 f5is contract a ranTesenta-
five If rhis lobby reDeatedIv stated
d. different gan+larnan without he's
teton IN, o,2a.+ion f+ba names of
theaa o,an+Iar1an can he Given If This
s+sto,7a1+ j. denied tbaf ona If the
fi,a+ tbinos that ba nrocaaded IN do
whom he go+ ia Jaclylon wos to nav
e25o IN one of the goveTno1,,s brdtb-
ars IN Iobhv for the Wea+bars Man
II, +I,io connection MIGHT sta+a +Tot
tho oantIan1en Who raTrasantad
those 7con+ractore when we fnaIiv
odon+aJ The Gordon Tian told that
if was y blow to his clients as tbe
Waatbers Man would have been
,,,77ch hat+aT. fo,. +ha con+racto,e
as i ,ro71d have raallirad GO n1any
aI+ara+ions and eytras with avtro
nav tbat there wae no TELLING how
much it would cost
y i9,tll s9eiiiee' ~ 10 ~ nv ~ -
plan, but some gentleman had seen
the plan Of Mr.. Gordon and liked it
better than the Weathers plan and
telegraphed to Mr.. Gordon to come
on and bring his plan with him
When he came to jackson l don't
believe that he was personally ac-
quainted with a single member of
the legislature. There was the
yfT.p1tpCt difficulty in gratti,,C ay-a11 a