The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-27

The last Legislature appointed a special
commission ito investigate and report to
the next General Assembly. a plan or
plans, together with the probable cost
thereof for necessary additions to the
State Capitol That committee has per
formed its work and will make the follow
ing report:
REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMISSION.
To the Honorable the General Assembly.
Gentlemen: The General Assembly of
1903 passed the following Joint Resolution
which was ratified 4th of March, 1903:
s'The Joint Resolution of Inquiry as to an
Enlargement of the Capitol.
Resolved by the House of Representa-
tives, the Senate concurring: Whereas,
by the reason of the great increase of the
population, wealth and governmental busi-
ness of the State the Capitol has become
much too small for the purpose for which
it was designed, and whereas the original
plan foreseeing this, provided for the adj
clifton of north and south wing, as is
in the Capitol at Washington; and where
as, further, the Judicial Department, the
State Library, the Attorney General and
Superintendent of Public Instructions
have been crowded out of the present
building, and the valuable libraries of the
Supreme court of the State are exposed
to great danger of fire, and their loss
would be irremediable, by reason of these
, and divers other DEFICIENCIES in the pres
ent Capitol:
Resolved, That committee of five
shall be appointed consisting of one Sena-
tor appointed by the president of the Sem
ate and two members of the House of
Representatives, the Governor of the State
ex-officio and the Chief Justice of the Su.
preme Court, ex-officio, who shall inves-
tigate and report to the next General As
sembly, plan or plans, together with the
probable cost thereof, for the addition of
the aforesaid wings. Said wings shall
provide on the ground floor for additional
rooms of executive officers of the State
including the Attorney General and Sup
erintendent of Public Instruction. the sec
ond floor shall provide a suitable chamber
in the north wing for the Senate and a
suitable chamber in the south wing for
the House of Representatives, the pres
ent Halls of these two bodies to be re-
modelled and converted into committee
rooms. The third floor of the north wing
shall be reserved for the Supreme court,
and its library, and the third floor of the
south wing shall be provided for the State
Library, and an elevator shall be provided
in each wing.
Resolved further, That said committee
shall serve without compensation and
shall fill any vacancy (other than in the
ex-offico members) occurring in their
body. They shall have power to employ
an architect to make the necessary draw
ings and plans, with an estimate of the
cost of each plan reported.
Said committee may avail themselves of
such plans or parts of plans as they may
see fit to use. adopted for similar enlarge
ments of capitol buildings in other States.
In the General Assembly read three
times and ratified this 4th day of March.
A. D., 1908.
In pursuance of said resolution the
undersigned H. E. Norris, Senator from
Wake, was appointed on the committee
by the President of the Senate, and A. w.
Graham, of Granville county, and John C.
Drewry, of Wake county, were members
of the House of Representatives selected
by the President of that body These.
with the two ex-officio members desig-
mated by the resolution to represent the
Executive and Judiciary Departments OF
the State constituting the committee
The resolution outlines the general ma