Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-06
CUTS APPROPRIATIONS
: IS on State Capitol Will Di-
yert State Funds From
State Institutions
E ,sLEM is MUCH COMPLICATED
,sLEM is MUCH COMPLICATED
The Money Actually Needed is Much
More Than the Money in Sight and
Members of the Legislature Agree
That the Capitol Repairs Must be
Made at Once State Capital News.
Special TO Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. Jan. 6.--The loss by fire
on the state capitol is causing gloomy
forebodings among the members of the
legislature who are charged by their
constituents with securing appropria-
tions for institutions at their respee-
tive homes. 1T seems certain" said
leading member of the senate. that
the loss on the state capitol will have
to be provided for in the present bien-
MUM. 1t will not do 10 say that the
repairs can be made at some future
time The entire work must be done
before another legislature is called to
meet here. That is the first thing we
will have to provide for. Nothing can
stop the work. The estimates of what
are needed on this vary great deal.
but 1t Is certain the sum Is so large
that we will be forced to cut down APP
preparations at other places. This IS
unfortunate, for we believe that there
has not been anything asked for by any
board or body that Is not actually
needed. and we should have given the
Institutions all that the funds of the
state would stand.''
The situation increases the difficult
cuities ahead of the appropriations
committees of the houses. The prob
lem for these committees to solve was
already & complicated one. The
money actually needed was vastly more
than the money in sight. Now the
pairing process viii have to go a step
further.
Some comment has been made to the
effec, that the fire has undone much of
the work provided for by the last leg
islature at the state house This Is
no; true. The members OF the capitol
commission estimate that from $4,000
To $4,000 Win cover the loss on the
new work that was put In by the COM
mission. What the commission has
done is largely down in the basement
where there are miles of new tubes and
pipes and grea. quantities of machin-
cry. The new elevators We're not
harmed. II they had been destroyed
then all hope OF new elevators for
this year would have been gone for
they could not have been restored very
soon. But the elevators are all right
and will be in full operation before the
week is over. One of the motors
which operated fan for ventilation in
the north end was ruined but the other
is unharmed. 1t was fortunate that
the commission had got no further with
the work and had not reached the in,-
poriant matter of decoration. 4 the
walls of the corridors and halls had
been covered with valuable frescoes,
as 1t is intended they shall be in time,
the damage would have been immense.
Every wall in the building is smoked
and covered with SCOT and dust. But
there were no new frescoes to be in
jured at this time and thus one Way
in which the loss might easily have
been great was avoided.
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The members who are here are
talking little else than about the fire.
They all agree that the repair work
must commence at once. Ii is generally
also. that the work of making
the repairs rendered necessary by the
Gre. shall be placed In the hands of the
present commission. They have done
the work well that they had in hand
and there has been no criticism of the
same. The commission will be badly |
in the matter of a consult
ing engineer. Much dependence was
placed on CHAMPION L. Linley.i the
young man who was killed on Tuesday !
morning. He had impressed himself
at once on the commission as man
of fine quality and scholarly attain
ments and the regret over his untiniely |
death was general among the persons |
who knew him Only few had formed |
his acquaintance. Another will be Sc
lected a, once 10 take his place in COM |
pleting the work in hand. The sugges- +
ton is that the present commission be
TO practically stop the general |
repair work in hand before and take up
the work of repairing after the fire |
and when this is done that the work
that Will be dropped now shall be fin |
ished. In this way the capitol will be |
finished as one complete job and there
VIII be no conflict. This will neces-
sarily prolong the life of the present |
at least two years more. I
Both John Herrott and George w.
Clarke are in the throes of committee
at the present time They are
themselves at present to lis
tening to the members and their friends f
and considering the merits of the diff
ferent persons Artists of committees
are tentative only and subject 70
II is the hardest part of the i
work of man getting ready for the
session. About one-fourth of the mems
bers are now in the city.
City politics has developed a merry
var in at least one political club in
Dos Mones, with prospect of COM
llete dismsmbsrme'at Of The club. This
; the SweiishAmerican Republican
Tub The Sweie voices are very in
luenlial on the east siae and they are
Practically all repubheaas They have
Generally maintained a strong repub-
lean club, which has taken an active
art in state. congressional and city
,oi..es Some ,lti,ss ago the club
.ad 300 members and preparations
we're being made to run 1t up to at