The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-22
SESSION OF SENATE
ARCHITECT or WHITE HOUSE IS
 CRITICIsED.
Teller and Hale Make Attack, While MT. Newland'a of Nevada De- fends Committee for Thomp-
 son Funeral.

Washington, March Reconsideration in the Senate today of the bill providing for the purchase of a site and the erec- ton of a building for the Department of State, Justice and Commerce and Labor was the occasion for adverse criticism of the architect who planned the White House offices,
 Messrs Teller and Hale led the charge on the architect and Mir. Newlands de- tended him. At the opening of the ses- sion. Mir. Hoar introduced by, request a colonization bureaa., which he said was perpared by officers of the Salvation Army to secure settlements on public lands. He said It wss prepared on the had he 4lievod would Nave been iHtr0aucea by him. The bill was referred to the Committee on Public Lands.
 Mir. Carmack introduced a resolution directing the Committee on Judicary to inquir and report as to the legality of the order of the Commissioner of Pen- sions granting pensions to soldiers of the iCvil War who had reached the age of 62 years. The resolution went over until tomorrow.
 The bill to provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of building for Departments of State, Justice and Com merce and Labor was laid before the Senate. Mir. Newlands took exceptions to criticism that have been made against the architect of the White House addi- tions. He said that the architect did not know the office building was to be constructed when he first took hold of the matter. Mir. Newlands said that the arcades on each side of the White House were in accordance with the original de- sign. He also asserted that the cost had been reasonable instead of entrava- gant.
 Mr. Newlanls, discussing the White House office, said that there had been no material change in the general appear ance of the exterior whereupon Mir. Tel Ter said:
 "They have added to 1t what I think Is a monstrosity and destroyed the beauty and symmetry of the building. I have yet to see any one who has not agreed with me-"
 MT. Hale declared that the intention of Congress had not been carried out. There should have been a two story building so the President would have his office upstairs and I've who go there would not have to be put into holes and cor ners.''
 Mir. Hale said that members of the Ap- propriatlons Committee went to the President and urged him not to have the original plans of the White House changed. The President assured them that If he had to sit up nights. he would see that the oriignaf plans were not dis turbed by any architect.
 Mir. Hale spoke of what he termed the '1mpudence" of the architect in declar- ing that the executive office was tenn porary affair. The Idea of the committee. he said, was that 1t was to be a perme- nant affair and the appropriation bill so provided. He criticized the payment Of enormous fees to the architects employed in connection with the White House im- provements and said they had received S9 900 for the plans. Then he said. they charged a percentage on the whole con tract as well a sa percentage on every payment of the contract and drew out of 1t 1000.
 No one. he said, not even the Senator from Nevada, "who seems to be enamor- ed of architects and sees nobody else" could make him believe that the pay ment of the amount was necessary.
 Discussion of the bill had not con- cluded when the Senate at 3:2 D. m, ad- journed out of respect to the memory of the late Representative Thompson of Alabama who died yesterday. The Presi- dent pro tempore appointed the follow the funeral: Messrs Morgan and Pet tus, Alabama: Culberson, Texas; Mo Laurin, Mississippi; Overman. North Carolina; Spooner. Wisconsin; Nelson. Minnesota and Deliver. Iowa.