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THE NEW STATE HOUSE BILL
S. G. DEW ELL.

lssa The NEW STATE HObSG DILL.
The committee on state house and
capitol grounds has finally evolved a
bill from the chaos the question was
submerged IN week or two ago, and
and has introduced the measure. IN
passing it is well to state that this com
mittee was created especially at this
session fer the purpose of deyising a
4 means to provide a capitol building for
& the state at Pierre. the voters by a big,
round majority, having signified their
desire to have the seat of government re-
mainat this city for all time to come.
The member of the house, where the
said committee reports, is from this
county, the Hon. John Sutherland.
/ For reasons known to many the bill he
drew upand introduced contained SER
ious objections, One of these was the
fact that itproyided for an expensive
capital commission, whose pay, before
the completed structure was ready to
1 turn over to the state, might amount
to q neat sum.
The new bill, which passed the house
yesterday by very decisive vote of "A
IL
TO IL, is simplicity itself. 1t only COW.
ers four pages, including the title, and
provides for a capitol commission to
consist of the governor, secretary of
state, state auditor and land commits
Toner, who shall serve without pay, 9th
er than the regular salary they now
draw They shall have charge OF the
new capitol, for which $i5o,90O is APP
propriated, with an emergency clause,
toput itin force at once.
This amount is all that is to be ex-
pended during the next two years, and
will provide an adequate home for the
state library, the historical records. the
supreme court chambers and all the
supreme court library and court offiic-
sials, as well as the records that should
be stored away for safe Keeping, from
the different branches of the state gov
ernl1ient. In the language of the bill
this wing to be erected within the next
two years 'may be a symmetrical part
OF q completed capitol building, which
when done. will cost all the way from
half to million dollars. The idea
{ Of the bill is ito make d start with this
sum, and let future legislatures de-
4 ternine Just how much will be done in
the next decade of years.
The state Isl To loan the money for
the purpose OF putting mp this wing,
& and Is 10 be paid back with interest,
from the sale Of lands appropriated by
the general government for this spec
iaiA purpose, which, When sold at the
minimum price Of ten dollars per acre,
will SO over eight hundred thousand
dollars. BY this arrange ment the state,
sors the tax erss u not be- out 4 cent,
/; There sill be no chance for graft, and a
new capitol will pc started and ready
Tor usein the shortest possible time
Ss The bill al outlined above will he
passedsbs the senate during the coming
week by the same ajority AS il passed
the house yesterday as II is y measure
that nos one can find fault with. Me
4 governor will undonbtedIy sign il, as il
in line With the views he Has often
xEpreased Consed uently III Will not
Sasl, long beff Fore ground Will be broken
aud NJ ia going on towards the first
IL 5 erfnanent sta Is house South Dakota
eyer had !. The capite commission
state otliesrs llas il within its pow
& 3fs "a III Sthat Tho new wing ~ put Up
D. a MN short order and considering the
|sa thef ansaff & condi lion of state records
S|||| na libraries Ip ~ present quarters
tslies comsn "a ee win make haste to ~