Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-05-01
NOT TO EXCEED $2,4oo,ooo IN
COST.
WORK TO BEGIN AT ONCE
Capitol Improvement Commission to
Have Supervision of the Constru-
tion-Matter of Securing Plans to
Be Open to New Competition-No
Time Set for Completion.
Madison, April %

Madison, April %.
A bill providing for new CAPITOL
the cost of which is not to exceed
$4,000 900 will be reported to botn
houses of the legislature this morning
by the committee on capitol grounds.
This was decided upon yesterday after
noon at a meeting Of the committee.
The bill provides for the work on the
new structure beginning at once under
the direction of the present capitol i'm
provement commission and carries an.
appropriation Of 100000, which with
the 100000 already appropriated by
the act passed two years ago, is to be
used in the discretion Of the commits
sion in the construction of the first
| wilg. If the commission decides to
erect two wings Immediately the two
are not to cost more than $1,320000.
Only 100000 of the 100000 appropri-
ated by the bill is to be raised during
! the next two years.
Five Members on Commission.
The bill further provides that the
| present commission, when reduced by
resignation to five members, shall here
after be limited to five members. If it
| be reduced below five by resignation,
the governor is to fill the vacancies
and is not to be restricted in any man
ner in making the selection. This pro-
vision, as will be seen carries with it
the suggestion that some members are
DESTROYS of resigning from the commits
sion. While there was no one willing
| yesterday afternoon to venture a pre-
| diction as to what members will re-
sign, it is the prevailing opinion that
Justices Marshall and Winslow of the
supreme court intend to give up their
connection with the work.
Open to New Competition.
The whole matter of securing plans
| is to be left open to a new compet1-
ton, and $4,000 is appropriated for
securing plans. The bill leaves much
| to the discretion of the commission.
Parts of the present building may or
may hot be used as the commission
thinks best after advising further with
architects. A large portion of the
| present building is condemned by all
the architects who have examined it.
And all have said that to use any part
of it would preclude the possibility OF
making for the state a permanent
structure in keeping with modern ideas
of useful and beautiful architecture.
The first wing to be built will of
course be for the use of the supreme
court and the housing of the law IL
brary If another wing is TO be built
it will be for the senate and assembly
chambers, and such offices as are
housed in the parts of the present
capitol which are most insecure and
most highly exposed to damage by fire
or other elements.
No Time Set for Completion.
The bill makes no provisions as to
the style of building, the general ap-
pearance or the time when it shall be
completed, that being left for the COM
mission and future legislatures. 1t is
believed by members of the committee
that the bill will be acceptable to all
concerned when it is properly eX-
planned on the floors of the houses.
The general belief and feeling is that
the building when completed will con-
form to the general lines of the nation
al capitol at Washington, with spread
ing wings and great dome in the cen
ter. The dimensions will of course be
left to the commission and the archs-
tects and the commission.
By this some Of the objections raised
! bV Senator McGilliVraV are met and z
way is left open for a general clearing
UP Of all the points at issue.