Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-10-16
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CAPITOL EXTENSION FACTS FROM
THE RECORDS.

THE RECORDS.
Actual area to be purchased, A0.1|
acres; less SIS acres to be sold, net
addition by purchase 1892 acres.
Mghty.ive per cent Of area already
bought by state and now actually a
part OF state property and paid for.
Capitol grounds extensions urged by
Governors Larrabee, Shaw. Garst, Car
roll and Clarke, and agitated for years.
Capitol extension plat and plan be-
fore members Of 35th G. A. and fully
discussed for over two months; details
OF extension fully illustrated in state
papers March 3, 1918.
Joint meeting of committees from
the two houses March 10 to consider
plans. four other meetings held, sub.
committee examined ground and plans
and reported favorably, and bill pre-
pared by committee Of democrats and
republicans.
Agreement as to area had support
OF every democrat on committee.
Area smaller by 30 per cent was ad-
vocated by some republicans and
unanimously opposed by democrats.
DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS OF LEG
STATURE are therefore WHOLLY
RESPONSIBLE for purchase by State
OF larger area rather than smaller one,
which would have been adopted II
consented to by a single Democrat.
Bill passed April 9Th, after 4 days
notice Of intent to have 1t considered,
after discussion and consideration by
every member of the legislature for
weeks, after publication of all the facts
in the papers, the bill in printed form
with large plats having been in hands
Of every member.
Few bills that passed were more dis
cussed or better understood than this
one. There was actual full and COM
plete discussion on the floor of each
house by members of both parties. No
rule was invoked that is not invoked
as to every other bill.
John L. Wilson, veteran democratic
senator from Clinton, had charge OF
bill in committee on the part of the
senate, and both Wilson and Senator
Nicholas ]. Schrup, Of Dubuque, ia
vored the larger area and even more
ground. The bill was supported by
such able democratic senators as Bal
huff Of Scott, Clarkson Of Monroe, Dun
negan of Page, Hageman Of Bremen
and DeWolf OF Grundy. The only
word against the bill in the senate was
by a republican.
In the house the convincing and un-
answerable speech in its favor was by
Charles w. Miller, OF Bremen, former
chairman Of the democratic state CON-
mittee' and floor leader for the demo.
Gratis; and he had with him such rep
resentative democrats as Scholz OF
Clayton. Black G: Muscatine, Boettger
OF Scott. Mccullough of Dubuque, Kelso
OF Jackson, Hazen of Pottawattamie,
and Hamilton Of Lee.
The bill was never urged upon
single member, directly or indirectly,
by anyone in Des Moines. The only
speeches on the floor Of either house
against the bill were from members in
counties adjoining Polk. The staunch-
est advocates of the capitol extension
were from distant parts OF the state.
The extension removes from the as.
SCISSORS books property which paid
$4,000 taxes a year in Des Moines.
There will not be need of single dol
lar Of state monsy for purchase be-
yond that levied and now in process
of collection.
II single DEMOCRAT Of any
standing had opposed the capitol ex-
tension bill in the 35th G. A. he could
have defeated it. Full responsibility
not only for the bill but for the area
included rests with the legislature and
with Democrats in equal measure with
Republicans. A large majority Of the
Democrats of both houses voted for
the bill.
The State Of Iowa has over 5000
acres of land for state purposes, Is
buying q thousand acres more this
year and will buy several thousand
more very soon, and has invested in
land and equipment over % million
dollars. Every dollar of this invest
ment was upon the authority and mi
tiative of the legislature alone.
ACTUAL rroc IN. ,orro,po,di dino puh.
lie buildings in Washington, D. C.
287.43 acres. Oklahoma has $50 acres
for capitol purposes. North Dakota
has 100 acres in capitol grounds. Ar
kansas has AZ acres. Pennsylvania is
condemning ~ acres in the best bust
ness section Of the capital city. Other
states are preparing to correct the er-
rors Of the past by charging capitol
grounds.
OF the total taxes paid in Iowa only
about 1 cent out Of each 81 goes for
capitol extension and this only for
two years.
The democratic candidate for gov.
ernor has advertised that "only in the
one case Of capitol extension Is 1t at
all contended that the appropriations
by the Legislature we're extravagant
or unwise." Democratic responsibility
for that zone case" is fully estab'
lished. And as for other expenditures,
this same democratic candidate while
a member of the board Of control, had
more to do with increasing them than
any one person now in the public eye.
This same vote seeker has paid for
circulation Of statement that the
area to be purchased is 10 acres. The
area in fact, as he knows, Is enlarged
nv purchase 1ust 1892 acres.