The Washington times., 1905-01-19
Extra 100000 IS Needed
For the Municipal
Building.
NOT INCLUDED I'm BILL
Committee on Public Build
lngS Has Received No
Application.

The fate of the application for ali ad-
oltionai $5o0,00o appropriation, desired by
the District authorities for. the new
Municipal Building. seems to be hanging
in the balance.
Considerable comment has been caused
at the Capitol and elsewhere by the ap-
parent indifference OF the Commission
ers in the matter. Without this extra
sum the new District Building will. in
all probability, have to be constructed
of brick, instead of granite.
No Application Made.
The only committee ON the House side
able to make the appropriation is the
Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds. Up to the present this COM
Hittee mas n no way considered the
appropriation. A member of the com
nittee said to a Times reporter today
that the matter bad not at any time
been before the committee
1t is understood at the District Build
Ing that the Commissioners are waiting
to hear definitely whether there is to be
bill appropTiatiHg for public buildings
throughout the country If such q
measure is to be reported to the House,
the Commissioners will then make an
effors to have included in it the $500.0t9
with which the new building can be put
up with granite.
Lime TO Get ouSy
It is indicated that it behooves the
Commissioners 10 apply TO the commit
tee at as carly u date as possible AL
ready members of Congress who seek
public buildings for their respective dis
tricts have learned whether or not their
requests for appropria tions have been
allowed If the Commissioners it is
argued, had gone before the committee
earlier IL the session, they would now
know whether the committee would re-
port faVorabiy Or disapproye the re-
quest
There new seems little doubt that the
committee viii report public buildings
was SAID by members of the committee
that. unless something extraordinary
happened TO prevent. the public build
ings' bill would be reported to the House,
carrying an appropriation OF about
$1o-0e9 600.
Deficiency Not IN the Way.
This still seems to be the general
opinion. The only thing that could pre-
vent the performance of the program
would be an alarming deficiency in the
Treasury. When it was said the bill
would pe reported, only 81. .0oo $50 deficit
existed in the Treasury. Since that
time it has grown to nearly S25, 900, 00o
II was said today, however, that 1t
would have to go still larger before il
NcuiG utledt OI the Dill
Consequently. say the critics, the
Commissioners would have done well to
have urged their cause before the COM
mittee earlier in the session 1t would
have been far easier to have had the
approprid tion included in the bill than
when 1T IS almost ready for report, to
the House.
Situation Serious.
The aspect of the case Is more serious
in view of the fact that should the com
m{ttee refuse to recommend the ap.
preparation. the only chance for getting
the money would be to amend the bill
in the Senate so as TO make 1t carry the
necessary appropriation, and have the
item retained when the measure goes
into conference. This action might re.
suit in advantage to the District, and il
might not.
The criticism made "a the Capitol is
that the sooner the Commissioners bring
the matter vigorously before the Com
mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds