Arizona republican., 1913-05-28
ART GALORE
 FOR CAPITOL
Board of Control Lays Down Conditions for Painting Governors Portraits and for Obtaining Decorative Panels for Corridors

The board of control at it's ad-
 journed session yesterday mornina
 decided to employ, under the terms
 of house joint resolution number l
 O. the recent legislature, William
 Vincent Besser, an artist to paint
 the pictures of the sixteen former
 governors of Arizona the two speak
 CTS of the state legislature and the
 president of the senate, to be used
 for decorative purposes throughout
 the state house. In addition to this
 Lon F. Megargee, an Arizona artist
 of some reputation, was employed to
 paint fifteen allegorical and sym
 boicaI pictures of Arizona which
 will also be placed on the walls of
 the offices or corridors of the state
 house.
 The dftists are to paint their pie
 lures subject to the acceptance of
 the board of control MT. Besser
 is to receive $1O0 per picture for
 his, and Megargee will receive $25O
 per picture for his. The money Tor
 these pictures is provided out of
 what remains of the enabling fund,
 that was appropriated by the na-
 tionaI congress to hold the constitu-
 tional convention and the election
 afterwards held to approve the con
 stitution. of this money some ten
 thousand dollars remained, which was not used for the canvassing
 board but turned back into the na-
 ttonaI treasury. Last year a special
 bill was passed by congress turn
 ing that amount over to the govcr-
 canvassing clerks and officials and
 nor of the state to reimburse the
 to leave the residue with the gov
 ernor to do with as the legislature
 might direct.
 During the sessions of the Iegis-
 latures, now departed, the question
 of disposing of this money was brought up several times, and several resolutions regarding it were placed before both houses. Senator Rob erts of Cochise. not being an art expert. objected to the idea of spend ing so much money Tor pictures, so he suggested in his resolution that .t be used to print several thousand copies Of the verbatim report of the constitutional convention, something which, by the way, does not exist, in the official archives. but the leg iSlaturc thought more of the g0Ver- nor's idea, introduced in the resOlu ton referred to abose by Kerr of Yuma The legislature showed them selves greater experts in art than the senate at first because they re- fused to buy new desks and carpets for the legislative chambers with the money.
 But to return tJ yesterdays mat ters Besser was out at the state house yesterday getting a line on the former Veruors. MegarSee's sketches are to be seven feet by four feet decorative panels His sub jects will be Arizona indians Mining" .Stockraising.' "A Zuni Nn- Haze" Irrigation" The Grand Can yon," "The Sanke Dance" ease Grande." Roosevelt Dam Canyon de ChiIly" san Xavier" "PeIified l Forests The Superstition Noun l tains." and The Painted Desert 1 Mcgargee has spent a lot of time on the deserts of Arizona and has the faculty of putting the colors of the l Arizona atmosphere to canvas that | is hard to equal
 1 Aside from all this the board of 1 control did other business yesterday. 1 The secretary was instructed to ad- 1 vertiSe for bull for the dairy herd ! Of the asylum. for an adding ma chine to be used by the tax and land | commissions half time each and one ,,ida carriage typewriter. Then the
 wages of Gabriel Borquez who works aroIlnd the state house, were raised. i The authorization was given the l Industrial school band to proceed from Fort Grant to Prescott in July 1 to attend the annual encampment o1 1 the National Guard there The bond l of w. G. Randall. the prison phE- sician was approved several m 1 surance policies on state 59