The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1900-08-30

broken.
The suggestions that the want of
more committee rooms for use of the
legislators during a sixty days session
every two years is responsible for
the "muddled condition of the legis-
tation," is a reflection upon the intel
ligent and patriotic citizens of Flor
ida who have been members of the
Legislature. During the entire his
tory of the State all the committee
rooms needed by legislators have
been furnished to them without cost
to the State. If the Legislature
should at any time desire more COM
mittee rooms they are readily acces-
sible and obtainable on demand at
very small cost Legislative COM
mittees have not :been noted for hes
itating about what they needed or
wanted, and in the past they have
not wanted more committee rooms
than they have found at their dis
posal, otherwise they would very
soon have ordered them to be pro.
vided, for there always have been
and are now plenty of rooms aVaila-
bic for such use.
1t is difficult Ito understand why
the State officials should be criticized
for utilizing, to the States advantage,
all the space in the present Capital.
The rooms wereibuilt to be used, not
to lie empty, and the officials deserve
credit, not criticism, for using them
for the transaction of the peoples
public business. The pertinent
question is: Have the several de-
partments sufficient room and ac-
cOmmOdatiOnS for the proper per-
formance of THEIR work. The con-
elusive and indisputable answer to
this question Is found in the fact
that not a single State official is COM
planning of insufficient room or ac-
cOmmodations in the present State
House. Nor lave the citizens of
Florida who have business dealings
with the departments complained of
any lack of promptness and eff
cheney in the manner their affairs are
handled in this Capitol.
The building utilized for the, labo-
ratory of the State Chemist is adj
mirably adopted for his use, consist
ing of one large cOmmOdiOus room
for the work of analysis, and another
somewhat smaller for weighing
room and Officei
This is substantial brick building
with an attic cbvered with a metal
roof and as this is dry and airy is
utilized for storing Journals of the
Legislature viii fh are left over after
each session.
The State Chemists laboratory is
very properly located in a building
separate from the Capitol proper.
The acid fumes! generally objection
able and noxio4s, daily generated in
the laboratory would make that
bureau, if locat ed in the main build
ing, decided nuisance to all the
other officials lin the building, and
form serious impediment to the
: proper performance of the work of
2 the departments.
There is not!a single book belong
S ing to the judicial library to be found
S anywhere in the building except in
n the Supreme Court room and in the
e consultation rooms of the Justices
e where they are carefully kept and
It preserved in excellent condition
r The railroad commission had it's of
2, flee in the briilding for nearly two
ii years, but preferred to occupy apart
is ments in quiet place where theil
1t deliberations will be undiSturbed
le The office used by the Attorney
1T General is thirteen by eighteen fee
e, and ample for his use.
he The increase of accommodation
'e contemplated: by the bill introduced
O. at the last session of the legis
In lature was !for the cOnvenienc
and luxury Of the Legislators, thei
OF needs being already supplied to tn
rs G2fiSfa otiOn Gf mann barc o,,o,. eino