The Alaska daily empire., 1914-10-13
 ON ALASKA
 CAPITOL
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ter up again in his 1912 report. In the meantime Congress had provided a Legislature for Alaska, and the Gov ernor's ideas of the character of the building required at Juneau were once more enlarged. Again. under the heading Public Buildings" Gov, Clark in his 1913 report said:
 The limit of cost of $200,000 for
 the building and site was not large
 enough at the time 1t was author
 ized, but since that time the es-
 tabllshment of Territorial Leg
 islature has been authorized by
 act of Congress. The first legis-
 lature will be oblIged-to rent quar-
 ters. extremely unsuitable probab-
 ly, for it's first session In order
 to provide suitable capitol build
 ing, with accommodations for the
 Legislative assembly and all the
 various government offices locat-
 ed in Juneau. the limit of cost re-
 ferred to should be increased to at
 least s5OO,OOO.
 Alaska Legislature Acts.
 This public buildings matter was again brought to the attention of the Public. of Congress. and of Delegate Wickersham in April, 1913. On the 22nd of that month. the Alaska House of Representatives passed a memor- ial asking that Congress appropriate S5OO, 900 for the construction of the Territorial Capitol building for Alas ka. Two days later. April 24, the me- morial was passed by the Senate. It recites that previously the Juneau Commercial Club petitioned Congress for an additional appropriation for this purpose.
 Certified copies of this memorial were sent to the Vice President of the United States, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to the Presi- dent, the Secretary of the Treasury, and to the HONORABLE JAMES WICKERSHAM, Capitals are ours) Delegate to the United States House of Representatives from Alaska"
 The Juneau Commercial Club had previously sent it's petition to Dele. gate Wickersham.
 Gov. Strong Next to Speak.
 This brings us down to the incumben. cy of Gov. J. F. A. Strong. as the chief Executive of Alaska. Two years have passed since Gov. Clark had called at- tention to the circumstance that the appropriation was too small, and a whole year since he had suggested that $50O.000 would be required to erect the character of building the situation called for In the meantime while Gov. Clark was at the head of the Alaska government, the beauti. fully and conveniently located site be- tween Fourth and Fifth and Main and Franklin streets had been secured for the building, and there remained some. thing like S177OOO in the fund. But there had been no action by Congress, and Delegate Wickersham had made no move to initiate proceedings that would carry into effect the recon. mendations of Gov Clark, the Juneau Commercial Club and the Alaska Leg islature.
 In his 1913 report to the Secretary of the Interior Gov. Strong made a very strong recommendation that the appropriation for the Juneau govern ment building should be increased so as to limit it's cost to S6OO,OOO instead of S2OO,OOO..
 MeAdoo Makes Wickersham Act.
 Even yet there was no sign of life from the Delegate from Alaska. Two Governors of the Territory, the Ju- leau Commercial Club, the Alaska Leg. islature, all had petitioned and prayed to ears that would not hear.
 On March IT. 1914-St. Patrick's Day a day that usually makes mems blood run a little faster than normal-Sec- retary of the Treasury William G. got into the game. He wrote Delegate Wickersham a letter which, in effect said, the people of your Ter ritory have asked for more money for the construction of a public building at Juneau; our experts have deter mined that they are right, and that 1t will cost S45O,OOO more money than the amount now available to erect such a building as the conditions re- quire. We have suspended action un.