The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-23
Letters to the Editor.
Capitol Extension.
Editor Advertiser.

Editor Advertiser.
 If the contractor for the south wing of the capitol meets his. obligation, to the Legislature meets In January next. avery material improvement will have been made and the cost will be small In Tn, proportion Ia to t the benefits The Leg total absence of Committee rooms, as at present. The new wing will suffice to supply this want and if 1t should an for one session ' would no not % be extrav- M agant. considering the extraordinary amount of committee work which . auadrennial fifty-day session must car
 It was published some days ago. that the. Capitol Improvement Commission had before it proposition to submit $1.500,000 capitol as the wisest solu- ton of the matter in hand. I confess I, for one. looked upon the notion but upon further reflection there is certainly strong reason behind it.
 How would 1t do. to use Alabama marble, so easy to get and so matchless There are many white men In the pen itentiary whose labor could be used at the quarries--and at the building. the methods of quarry work and build ing, but they would be all the better for the training when they are freed. Marble can be ppt on the cars at the ways on the capitol grounds without intermediate handling.
 Unquestionably the marble fields of wealth. A splendid marble capitol. of native material, would be the wonder and admiration of the world. The ad- vertisement would be worth millions of dollars annually to the State.
 But what shall we do with the brass star at the portals of the old porch and the antecedent history of the old relic itself in its entirety?
 No apprehension need. be. entertain ed on the score of iconoclasm.. The State will preserve its relies of the storm cradled nation that was bc-r in
 Every year adds to the literature of the Confederate government and it's cause. now stored in a perishable old ure be stored In a new fireproof build ing, where 1t will remain forever. se- cure to the glory of the Confederacy. Certainly there is no iconoclasm in that of 1880 must fail into decay in its original form. Can we not give the building, outside and inside. as 1t. was st that historic date, permanent nan bist and ry? Let the new $1.500,0oO building. Sion, MT. j. Craig Smith, be ordered even from a flash of lightning Re quire the architect to provide for the introduction within the corridors of white marble model, of the. capitol of 1S60-61. The model might be twenty feet long, say, or of any desired pro portions. but In all events to De an exact model in architecture inside and outside convention met and the chamber wbere the Provisional Congress met should be large Xnough to admit sntran ;e of visitors The white marble model. with it's Inscriptions cut in the stones. standing within the corridors of the magnificent marble main building; the gallery and relies of the History De- partment and the Supreme Court. its library and gallery. would contribute to tout ensemble. the, like, of which could hardly be found In all America. The model would of course preserve a place for the Davis star.
 One viewing the capitol of today from the upper stories of the Exchange Hotel. cannot fail to be impressed with :he extraordinary grandeur that a splendid marble building on the site
 Ala ahanla needs to assert herself and nut on her garbs of loveliness and hon. 5r Publius.