The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-18
Bill Now in Congress Pro-
vides Big Appropria-
ton for KenOsha.
SITE AND BUILDING
Sum Sought Would Provide for
New Site and Building to Fit
in with Civic Center Plan.

Hope for the building of new and
adequate post office building in Keno
sha in the near future was revived
here today when word from Washing
ton indicated that an appropriation of
100000 for the securing of a site and
building of a new post Office in Keno
sha is included in the bill introduced
by Representative Richard N. Elliot of
Indiana, chairman of the committee on
public buildings and grounds, to APP
propriate 150,000,000 for a six-year
federal building program.
Unofficial reports declare the bill
carries an appropriation of $125,oOO
for a new site for the Kenosha post
office and $275,o00 for the erection Of
new post office building here. This
is in keeping with recommendations of
the secretary of the treasury and the
postmaster general, the omnibus bill,
as it is called, being drawn along the
lines suggested by these officials.
Aid in Civic Center.
An appropriation of 100000 by the
federal government for the erection of
a new post office building in Kenosha
would enable the carrying out of an
other part of the civic center project
now under way in Kenosha. The site
suggested for the post office is the
west half of the block in which the
present post office building is located.
The city agrees to purchase part of
the block for street widening purposes
exchanging with the government for
parts of the site now occupied by the
post Office building.
The Kenosha postal receipts have in
creased by leaps and bounds and have
warranted the erection of new post
Office here. The present building has
been inadequate for more than a de-
cade and in rush periods it is almost
impossible to handle the mails expedi-
tiously.
The bill introduced by Representa-
tive Elliot is causing much interest in
congress because no general building
bill has been passed since 1918 and
buildings for housing post offices and
other federal departments are needed
in various parts of the country. There
are indications that the Elliot bill will
receive such strong support from a
majority of the members of congress
representing districts where new
buildings are needed that it's passage
cannot be blocked The Elliot bill is
an attempt to get away from the pork
barrep legislation and to place the
construction of public buildings on a
business basis.
Omnibus building bills, including
items for projects in all parts of the
country totalling many millions, have
been presented to congress during each
of the last several years, but it is gen.
orally conceded that there is no hope
of passing such bill because the adj
vocates of every project would be SO
insistent that their items be included
the first year that the resulting bill
would nearly bankrupt the treasury.
It is pointed out that plan like that
carried in the Elliot bill must be
adopted to spread the immense ap
preparation over several years.
This may mean that there will be
some delay in securing the appropria-
ton for the Kenosha building The
details of the Elliot bill have not yet
been made public, showing just when
in the six-year program the kenosha
building project is listed. Kenosha,
however, with a new building assured,
would be willing to bide its time under
the provisions of the bill. Since the
post Office building is very badly need
ed in Kenosha, there is a possibility
that the project here will be among
the first listed to be carried out in the
six-year building program.
Reports declare that the bill will
carry an appropriation Of $4,000 for
an addition to the Racine post Office
building and $4,000 for the extension
and remodehing of the post Office
building at GAINESVILLE.