The Springdale news., 1906-02-02

first was made the highest price in the itemized bid. If it should have to be done according to the plans good big profit is made on 1t anyway but if IL could be sighted more would be made, and all the bulk of the con- tract price in cash would be drawn out of the states Treasury Tn the earliest operation. But work that would not have to be done for prOb- able years to come was priced for less than 1t would cost By this 1t was intended either never u do such
 work, the bond being arranged So that
 it could be Of no avail, or else to have l it changed so the architect could tix the price for it as provided in the speci tications for new work or where no prices are given.
 Under his power to reject all ma terial and labor not up to the speci- tications and plans, if the architect is friendly to the contractor, he can con- demn anything and prevent it's going into the building for no other cause
 than the contractors profit, while it
 might be made tn appear solely for the benefit of the State. It Is thought that because of the fear of detection i in such things as these, no citizen of the State. unless in certain rare eX. cedtions. are given employment on the State Capitol, though the State has stone cutters, carpenters and bricklayers, as well as other Workmen. as good as can be found anywhere.
 i The State of Arkansas has innocent- 1 ly put it's trust In the angelic pro- misses which were made iJ and now it l iuds deception and pertidY the penal i v for it's credaHty. The enormous sum of million dollars was too little when conditions were so favorable for more, and it DOW dawnS on us that a < I Il further draft on our unSuSpecting ] confidence d deal was entered into which, by It's terms, not only gave to i the contractors protection for the 1 benefit of something like Four Hun dred Thousand Dollars gained by cer- i tain changes already made Tn the work on hand, but more. They asked and were making remarkable head way in lobbying through the LegiSla- ture an additional appropriation of Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars more of the States money for extra
 work to be done on this building and
 which work was to be gotten by these
 same contractors without even the
 fOrmality of competition. For such
 services T@enty-one Thousand Dol-
 Iars was deposited in Bank in Little
 Rock and was partly delivered to some
 Of our trusted and honored statesmen
 as their price for the blackeSt of all
 crimes, that of selling the confidence
 reposed in them oy their constituent
 cy Twenty-one Thousand Dollars
 however, was an tneonsiderate sum
 tO be patd for boodle when counting
 the value alone of the changes that
 had already been made at that time,
 and to say nothing Of those benefits
 dreamed of in the future, to come
 from the Eight Hundred Thousand
 Dollars of additional money. It was
 like pitching penny tO bOOJ6lack
 for this gang to get of with so little
 cost for the protection of its inter
 eStSn during the session of the Legis-
 lature Eight Hundred Thousand
 Dollars for State Capitol graft and not
 sou for the establishment of an or phan's home, Eight Hundred Thou
 sand Dollars for graft, and only Five Thousand Dollars for pennileSs boys labor at the State University Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars to be given to d set of fine dressed blacklegs: and only a l mill added to the old Confed- crate soldiers starvation stipend
 Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars given to slick set ef non residents for "GumSh0eS' and slap Tn the face for every town in the State that want
 ed u pay for its own sewerage and waterwOrks. That's the way the lob
 was set up. Every tune the State makes | million dollar contract of