Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-06-12
WATERFOWL TO GET
ORIGINAL AMOUNT
CONGRESSMAN NELSON COR
reefs WRONG IMPRESSION
Bill for $4,000 Passed and Signed
By President-The $4,000 Was
Merely An Act of Joint Commit
tee to Make Money Available for
Building Purposes.
Watertnwn gets S65, 900.

Watertnwn gets sos, 900.
1t appears that the Congressional
Record under date of Saturday. May
Both, was somewhat misleading to a
number OF Watertown citizens who
mad gathered from perusal of the
same that the appropriation for the
government building here had been
reduced by the joint committees On
appropriations from $4,000 to $40,
900. The Leader, like others, felt
less reduction in the appropriation.
The matter was cleared yesterday
In telephone message from Con-
gresham John M. Nelson tn Post
master H. 7. Eber1e, the repre-
sentative speaking from Madison,
having recently returned from his
seat in Congress. MIR. Nelson stated
that the bill granting sos, 900 for the
government building for our city
passed Congress and was signed by
the President. He added that the
$40, 900 appropriated was merely upon
the recommendation of the joint COM
mittees to make money available for
building purpose, in order to begin
operations when the time arrived to
do so.
The success of Mr.. Nelyun IN Sc
curing such handsome appropriation
for Watertown is even beyond the
expectations OF the most sanguine of
our citizens and certainly entities
him to much credit.
There were certain facts that con
tributed to form a belief that the
local appropriations had been reduced.
The appropriation of Congress were
recklessly extravagant and the sum
, total represents figure that caused
many to shudder. Of course each of
the favored sections are naturally a
trlfie selfish and while realizing that
the appropriation in the entirety were
enormous, would not care to see the
appropriation for their own munich
pality reduced, especially such a re-
duction as was Incorrectly imagined
had been given Watertown.
Watertown is especially fortunate
IN securing the sum it has. There are
cities in the country much larger
which have received appropriations in
the past, which were about the same
or only little more, where there
have been other departments of the
government service other than the
post-office to occupy the building.
Here in Watertown, there will be
only the post-office and for the amount
of the appropriation, a handsome
structure can certainly be erected
one that will be credit to the city.
Naturally, there was a feeling of re-
greet to those who were of the belief
that $40, 900 appropriation only had
been given WATERFOWL, and many
were the visions of what would arise
at the corner of Second and Madison
streets.
Prior to the final action of last
Saturday, speeches were made by
representatives in Congress-, protest
ing against the enormous appropria-
tons and it was quite natural that
one would take the figures quoted in
the Congressional Record as "shat-
tered fragment" of the original de-
mand.
1t is indeed gratifying to know
that the sos, 600 stands and The Lead
er humoly begs the pardon of its
readers for unintentionally giving out
what it hone silly believed was a
correct "bit of news