The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-03-28
WORK ON CAPITOL
TO START SOON
COMPANION BILLS INTRODUCED
IN HOUSE PROVIDE FOR NEc-
ESsARY PROCEDURE.

Oklahoma City, March 27.-Com-
plete procedure for building a capitol
building in Oklahoma City to cost at
least $1,500,000 is incorporated in
companion bills introduced in the
house late Wednesday afternoon by
Representatives Hill of Pittsbt
Lemon, Woodard, McCrory, King aN
Vosburgh. The measure also pro.s
wides a means of securing the funds
without making a large appropriation
from the general revenue fund, the
enterprise to be financed largely from
an appropriation from the public
building fund and from a special cap
itol building fund to be created from
the sale of lots in the northeast site.
The intention is that whatever amount
is appropriated from the general rev.
enue fund, or in other words from
the pockets of the taxpayers, will
soon be repaid from the sale of lots
in the tract of land donated by Okla
hona City.
House Bill No. 70 re-creates the
state capitol commission, provides for
the construction of the capitol and
governors mansion and makes an ap-
preparation. The only definite ap-
preparation carried by the bill is
$476,117S4 remaining on hand in the
public building fund and still unap-
propriated and not Included in the
scope of the Woodard bill which set
aside future revenues from the public
building fund for the use of consoli
dated rural schools. The bill also
creates a capitol building fund which
shall be available as fast as it ac
cumulates for construction work and
in addition provides for a direct ap
preparation from the general revenue
fund, the amount of which is not ye.
agreed upon, to supplement the work.
Authors of the bill do not believe that
it will be necessary to appropriate
more than 100000 from this fund
in order to assure the immediate con-
struction of a capitol building that
will cost from $1,5OO,OO0 to 81
100000.
For Capitol Commission.
The capitol commission shall be
composed of three persons, not more
than two of the same political party,
to be appointed by the governor with
the consent and approval of the SEN
ate and to serve two years from June
1, 1918. Each commissioner is to give
a bond of $250O0 and receive a sal
airy of $4,000 year. No members of
the capitol commission can become
interested in any contract or division
of profits arising from any work on
the capitol buildings or from the sale
of lots.
The commission is given full au
thority to let all contracts for con-
struction of capitol and governors
mansion and to add ten acres to the
fifteen acre site already selected by
the legislature upon which to locate
the state buildings. The commission
also is authorized to employ all ar
chitects, engineers and other help it
may deem necessary and to fix the
compensation of all employees. The
capitol and executive mansion must
be built of Oklahoma marble, grant,
or other materials quarried and man
ufactured in Oklahoma, where the
same can be purchased as cheaply as
material of like quality can be had
from other states
House bill No. rs by the same au-
thors gives the commission OF the
Oklahoma land office authority to plat
the land donated by Oklahoma City
with the exception of the twenty-five
acres for the buildings, and to sell 1t
in lots at public auction all sales to
take place on the capitol grounds. The
lots are to be sold on four years time
90 per cent to be paid at the time of
purchase, and 90 per cent each year
with six per cent on deferred pay
ments. Each purchaser is to be Civ
en- a certificate of purchase and the
site is to have a first lien on the
lots until paid for. The sale must be
advertised in at least seven issues Of
newspaper of general circulation in
the county where the lands are locat-
ed at least thirty days before the
sales begin. All proceeds of the sale
..n into tho canitnl hnildinP fund.