Bisbee daily review., 1908-05-28
THE PORK BILL
 IS 4 CONTINUAL
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This Year the Public Building Appropriation Gives $32,- 100000 to Log Rolling CongresSmen.


 WASHINGTON, D. C., May 27.- One of the most characteristic pieces of business which congress transacts is the preparation and passage of the public building ("pork") bill An ex- cellent illustration of the methods employed is afforded in this years bill, and, incidentally, 1t is also a fine .deveacpneat of the log-rolling meth ods which obtain in most legislation. The public building bill of this ses- sion carries about $32,000,00O. At the beginning of the session there was to be no such bill; then Speaker Can non agreed that small bill might be allowed; perhaps s12,000.O0O. The committee got busy-for the bill must originate in the house-and turned out measure which finally passed, carrying about S23,000,O0O It went to the senate and, as reported from the committee there, carries $32, 900 . 900 to $33 100000.
 The senate looks like a right liber- al guardian of the treasury, consider ing it's generosity in compromising the generosity of the house. Yet the sen ate has to do the business of making the bill. Members of the house nearly 400 of them-all want a slice, and generally get it. They look after their small towns, and leave the big cities to the attention of the senate.
 The point is that the country con- gresham must get his share for the little towns or lose his job; the big cities can take care of themselves because business conditions make the construction of proper public build tngs necessary. So the senate com mittee in making up the bill this year found that the house had given S90,0G0 to various towns in Colorado, but had done nothing whatever for Denver. In Florida the house bill dis tributed $125,000 among small towns, while Miami, city wth a real need for a building. was left for the sen ate to provide for. - E.
 Texas, Oklahoma and California and New Mexico are three states and one territory which give the commit tees grief. In each is a group Of magic cities, growing at a rate al most unbelievable and requiring con- stantly increased public building fa- cilities- They are never satisfied sim ply because congress cant keep up with their demands
 Chicago gets this year $1,5O0, ,GOO for new postofice building. This one will be postofice building. The wonderful architectural pile which was recently opened and which was so long in building that 1t was almost a ruin before 1t was finished, and was altogether outgrown by the business of the office, cannot longer accommo- date the demands upon it. The plan of simple business-like structure, es- pecialiy adapted for postofice uses, with plenty of good light and air and space, and no extra architectural pre- tensions, will be carried into effect in Chicago.
 Against the general opinion, both in the house and senate, at the last session of the congress, that he courd not get a dollar. Delegate Andrews Of New Mexico at the last hour of the day got $150,000 for federal build ing for Albuquerque. At half an hour before adjournment Delegate An drews agreed to take $100 GOO rather than lose out altogether. At the be ginning of this session when he asked for $3G0,000 more for Albuquerque and s13O,000 for Roswell: and also tried for $130 GOO for Las Vegas: many members. particularly the chairman and others on the public buildings committee, said that he must have colossal cheek. He now has in the bill what he asked for in behalf of Albuquerque and Roswell, and the only reason he did not get what he was fighting for in the Las Vegas case was because of the fight be. tween the two Vegas towns. He hopes next to get federal buildings for Raton, Socorro, Silver City, Las Cruces, Carlsbad, and some other towns