The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-30
I1Ild!lT'E TO
lSk I MILLION
FOR BUILDINGS


Woe4 l9Aoo Af9ue.
"a Washington. d. c.. Sept. 3d.
Two and one half million
aollars in government buildings for
doMn-stAte Illinois will be provided
Ia an omnibus public building bill |
now being prepared here by COM
mjttae clerks Of the house for
presentation when congress- con-
yenes following the November
elections.
n: Unless the house committee on
public buildings and grounds
makes radical cuts in the amounts
asked by Illinois congressman for
STRUCTURES in their districts, the
Z Illinois slice of the public build
ings appropriation congress will be
asked to pass ut the approaching
session will be one Of the largest
on record.
Chairman Langley announced
few days ago at Washington that
he will summon his committee fol-
lowing the elections next month
and report bill to the house for
Immediate consideration.
No public building bill has been
passed by congress since before
the war, due to wartime burdens on
the treasury and the high cost of
building materials and construc-
ton. Leaders OF the house man
aged to stave off action on the
BILL at the session just closed on
the plea that it was necessary to
defer the appropriation in order to
make an economy" record for
congress. With the November
elections behind them, however,
and with many cities in the coun-
try in desperate need OF increased
postal facilities, 1t is practically
certain that members Of congress
Will insist on the passage of an
omnibus bill at the new session.
The largest Jumps for downstate
Illinois towns asked in the omni-
bus bill now being prepared will
be for Rockford, Bloomington and
Springfield. Representative Charles
r. Fuller, Belvidere, has bill in
providing 100000 for additional
land and enlargement OF the pres
ent federal building at Rockford or
for a new building and site in case
enlargement proves impractical
Representative Funk has asked
100000 for new postoffice build
ing at Bloomington to be built on
a site already owned by the gov
eminent.
A new federal building to cost
between 100000 and 100000 will
be asked by Representative Loren
Il. Wheeler, Springfield, for the
state capital. He did not intro.
duce bill at the last session but
will do SO when congress reassem
bles and this item will be consid
4 cred by the committee along witt
the other Illinois bills.
A Representative Allen F. Moore
1 Monticello, has asked appropria
4 tons for Clinton and Champaign
y the Nineteenth district. Hi.
/ bills provide 100000 for a build
| ing and site at Clinton, and $125,
4 600 for additional land and altera
u lions for the present Champaign
pffice.
sr New Galva Building.
Representative Guy l.. Shaw
n Beardstown, introduced bills TO
4 half a dozen towns in his distric
i just before adjournment. These in
j clude: Havana, 100000 for build
II ing; Mt. Sterling. $4,000, build
ing and site; ~Tuscola, 500 90
~buiIding and site; Mason Cit,
u $4,000, building and site; Green
\ field. $4,000, building and site
4 Petersburg. 100000, building an
site; Pittsfield. $4,000, buildin
and site; Carrolton, s11O, 900
building.
4 Representative King, Galesburs
l has included the following cite
l and towns in the Fifteenth distric
for, appropriations: Galesburs
4 100000 for enlargement of presen
4 building; Gava, $4,000, buildin
and site; Geneseo, $4,000 to in
crease the limit of cost over tn
$4,000 already authorized; Lewis
town. $4,000. building and site
Abingdon. $4,000, building an
site; Rushville. $4,000. buildin
and site.
l Clerks have been at work for tn
past week here condensing score
OF Individual bills into single ON
nibus bill. The average cost pc
building is about one-third highe
than In any previous bill.