The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-23
SENATOR MAY YET GET APPRO.
PRlATION THROUGH FOR
PUBLIC BUILDING.
Speaker Cannon Has Modified His
Views on the Public Building
Question.


milton Of his bill introduced in con-
gress few days ago providing for the
erection of a $350,J00 public build
ing in Walla Walla. Speaker Cannon
who at first violently opposed any
public building bill going through at
this session of congress, has modi-
fed his views and it is now believed
that Walla Walla's chances of Sc
curing a public building are most ex-
cellent. The bill introduced by Sen
ator Ankeny. known as Senate Bill
No. 1872, is as follows:
Be it enacted by the senate and the
house Of representatives Of the United
States of America in congress as
sembled, that the secretary Of the
treasury be, and he hereby is, autho-
rized and directed to purchase, or &C
quire by condemnation proceedings, a
site for building to be erected there
on, and to cause to be erected, at the
city of Walla Walla, in the state Of
Washington, a suitable building for
the use and accommodation of the
United States courts, the postoff1ce,
and other government Offices in said
city, with fireproof vaults extending to
each story; the site and building there
on, when completed according to plans
and specifications to be previously
made and approved by the secretary
of the treasury, not to exceed the cost
of three hundred and fifty thousand
dollars; and the sum of three humid
red and fifty thousand dollars is here
by appropriated, out of any money in
~. lot
ed, for the purchase of said site and
completion of said building.
Proposals for the sale Of land suit
able for said site shall be inviteu by
public advertisement in one or more
of the newspapers Of said city OF
largest circulation for at least sixty
days prior to the date specified in said
advertisement for the opening of said
proposals.
Proposals made in response to said
advertisement shall be addressed and
mailed to the secretary of the treas
ury, who shall then cause the said
proposed site and such others as he
may think proper to designate, to be
examined in person by an agent of the
treasury department, who shall make
written report to said secretary Of the
results of said examination, and o.
his recommendation thereon and the
reasons therefor, which shall be ac-
companied by the original proposals
and all maps, plats, and statements
which shall have come into his pos
session relating to the said proposed
sites.
If, upon consideration Of said report
and accompanying papers, the secre-
tary of the treasury shall deem further
investigation necessary, he may ap-
point a commission of not more than
three persons, one of whom shall be an
officer of the treasury department,
which commission shall also examine
the said proposed site, and such others
as the secretary of the treasury may
designate, and grant such hearings In
relation thereto as they shall deem
necessary; and said commission shall,
within thirty days after such examina-
ton, make to the secretary of the
treasury written report of their con-
clusiOn in the premises, accompanied
by all statements, maps, plats. or doc
uments taken by or submitted to them,
in like manner as hereinbefOre pro-
-vided in regard to the proceedings OF
said agent of the treasury department,
and the secretary Of the treasury shall
thereupon finally determine the loca-
ton of the building to be erected.
The compensation of said commits
sioners shall be fixed by the secretary
Of the treasury, but the same shall not
exceed six dollars per day and actual
travelling expenses: Provided, how
ever. That the said member of said
commission appointed from the treas
ury department snail be paid only his
actual travelling expenses.
So much of the appropriation herein
made as may be necessary to defray
the expenses Of advertising for pro-
posals, actual travelling expenses of
said agents, and the compensation and
actual travelling expenses of said COM
missioners, and other expenses Incl
dent to the selection of the site, and
for necessary survey thereof, shall be
Immediately available.
No money appropriated by this act
shall be available except as nereinbe-
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