The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-20
sUNDRY CIVIL BILL UP.
Senate Discusses Addition to tn
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 Washington, April 19.-The question of additional accommodations in way of offices and committee rooms occu- pied the attention of the Senate the greater part of the day. The subject | arose in connection with the provis- | ions in the sundry civil appropriation bill, one for an extension of the east front of the Capitol building, in ac- oordance with sketches left by Archi- tect Walters, and the other for an out side Senate office and committee build | ing. Much variety of opinion was ex- pressed and the question was still un- der consideration when the Senate ad- | journed. Several minor bills were pass- ed during the day.
 The sundry civil bill was laid before the Senate and its reading concluded. Several minor amendments suggest ed by the Committee on Appropria- tions were adopted. among them the | following: Appropriating $25,OOO to enable the United States to partici- pate In the Leige, Belgium, exposition of 1905; approprtating $20,0O0 for a railroad map of the United States to be made by the geological survey; au- thorizing the issuance of medals for exhibitors at the St. Louis exposition without cost to the United States. The amendment provided for the erection of an office and committee room building for the use of Senators was opposed by Mir Berry, who said that before it could be completed the building would cost not less than $4,- 800, 900, or $50,00O each for the mem bers of the Senate. He pronounced it "a piece of extravaganza which sur passed anything he ever had seen of tered in the Senate"
 MT. Bailey supported the amend ment. He said that MT. Berry's com ment as to the cost of the proposed building might be applied to the Cap ttol. That building had been erected Cor the Congress as a whole, and he considered the best none too good in the way of accommodations. He did not want Oriental magnificence. but he did want splendid buildings. Sena- tors in Washington should not live in huts nor stop at wagon yards, nor should they have their offices in inac- cessible portions of the capital. He said the Senate annex now used for sena- torial offices was a fire trap.
 Mir. Berry said that If the proposed extension of the capital building was made it would provide ample accom- modations for the senators who were not already provided for.
 MT. RlatC. (COnn.) also OD1eCted to the retention of the provisions for both the addition to the capitol and the new building. MT. Hale contended that the capitol addition does not com init the Senate to that addition. For himself he was most pronouncedly op- posed to the adoption as he thought 1t would vulgarize the east front of the capitol.
 MT. Bacon of Georgia declared the addition would be httle less than sac rilege.
 MT. Allison suggested an addition to the Capitol sufficiently adequate to &C., commodate the Supreme Court He advocated the retention of both pro- visions.
 MT. Teller opposed the east front extension. but advocated the new build ing, saying that as the country grows demands on the Capitol will grow. He expressed the opinion that the time would come when 1t would be neces- sary to provide accommodations for Senators from Alaska and Porto Rico and gave voice to the hope that 1t might be necessary to make room for Senators from what is now the Do- minion of Canada.
 The Senate went into executive ses- sion and at 5:30 adjuorned.