Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-02
PROVIDES
FOR maine BUILDINGS.
WaterviIe, Gardiner, Belfast and Els
worth Among Cities That Figure In
the Public Buildings Bill.

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Grounds knocks out" more or less of
the House items and usually the pro-
jects in which the House Conferees
are interested are the ones to suffer.
Such was the case as to the projects
for Waterville ond Gardiner, the only
two new projects which Congressman
Burleigh had in the bill. The House
appropriation for Waterville was re-
Guced by the Senate from one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars to one
hundred thousand dollars and the APP
preparation of fifteen thousand dollars
for a post office site at Gardiner was
entirely eliminated from the bill. Upon
the meeting of the Committee of Con-
ference of which Governor Rurleigh
was a member, both items We're
promptly restored. They We're two OF
the strongest items in the list of APP
preparations for Maine, as the Senate
conferecs we'll knew.
The Senate, at Senator Hale's request
added $4,000 to the $4,000 allowed by
the House. to increase the limit of APP
preparations heretofore made for the
House at Portland, making the total
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by the President 100000.
The members of the Committee of
Conference upon the disagreeing votes
Of the two branches were Senators
Scott of West Virginia, Warren of
Wyoming and Culberson Of Texas, and
Representatives Bartholdt of Missouri,
Burleigh of Maine and Brantley of
Georgia.
Every item in the House bill for New
England that was reduced or stricken
from the bill by the Senate was re-
stored, and every item added by the
Senate, for the same, was retained by
the Conferees.
Governor Burleigh has already start
ed out to secure sites and buildings for
HallOwell and Skowhegan and has in
troduced bills for each, both reading
alike except as to name, as follows:
A BILL
To provide for the purchase of site
and the erection of a public building
thereon at Hallowell, Maine.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Unit
ed States of America in Congress as
scmbled:
That the Secretary of the Treasury
be, and he is hereby authorized and
directed to acquire by purchase, con-
demnatOn, or otherwise, a site and
cause TO be erected thereon a suitable
building, including fireprOof vaults,
heating and ventilating apparatus, and
approaches complete, for the use and
accommodation of the United States
post office and other government offices
at Hallnwell, Maine, the cost of said
site and building not to exceed the sum
of one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars.
These bills have already been re-
ferred to the Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds of the House
and Governor Burleigh has had an in
terview with the supervising architect
relative to same. The Congressman
feels absolutely certain that both
propositions will appear in the next
Public Buildings bill.
1t mas been the custom, long adhered
to, that the granting a site for a pub
lie building insurcs the ultimate erec-
ton of the building and that the
money for such construction is appro-
rriated in the next bill, so that Gar
O1'lef is auSolulcIy certain Oh Il new
post office within the near future.
The full list of appropriations for the
purchase of sites and for public build
ings in Maine in the bill just signed
by the President. is as follows:
Bar Harbor-Increase Of limit of
former appropriations for post
office ........................... $1,000
Acknowledgements of post Office 5000
Observation-Disclosures of post office $1,000
Biddcford-Ste for a post Office. 20.02Q
Calais--Increase of limit of former
appropriations for post office. 10000
Camden-Site for a post office 10000
Ellsworth - Enlargement of post
Office Observation-Disclosures. 42.OOO
Gardiner-Site for a post office. II 0lj
Old T0wn--Site for post Office. 10000
Portland-IncreaSe of limit of for
nier appropriations for court house
ard for the purchase Of addi-
tional land NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 10000
Watervile-For site and building
for post office. Observation-Disclosures. 10000
Total Observation-Disclosures. $500, 600
During the service in the House Of
Representatives. of the big four"
Reed. Dingley Milliken and Boutelle
Maine shared well as to public build
ings.
The good work still goes forward.