Show THE PUBLIC BUILDiNG BILL THE HEIULD doesnt want anybody to grow enthusiastic and undertake to inaUgUrate in-augurate a boom over the passage through the Senate of the bill making an appropriation i appro-priation of 500000 for the erection of a federal building in this city nor voula this paper take advantage of the incident to ditcourago anybody in the least But all might as well understand now as wait sis months to learn the truth that the prospect ef getting that appropriation is anything but flattering It is not very difficult dif-ficult to get such bills through the Senate That branch of Congress seems to pass theso public building bills occasionally for the purpose of temporarily pleasing tho I people knowinl there is lilt fA HmHhnrt uv of appropriations passing the House or receiving tho sanction of the President Presi-dent We bometimos think tho dignified gentlemen who compose the upper branch of Congress are given to undue levity in the passage of such bills There is perhaps no city in America whose demand for a commodious and commanding com-manding federal structure is more righteous right-eous than that of Salt Lake Everybody concedes and officials who visit tho place express surprise that a city of tho size and i j importance of this one should be without a government building the courts postoflice the offices of the federal representatives all I being in rented structures and most of them inconvenient and inadequate to tho demands The facts are these Tho government does not erect buildings in territories for the reason that a territory is without political politi-cal power or influence If Utah had three I or four votes in Congress and as many in tho electoral college it would not be dir ficnlt to get an appropriation for a public building T u in uiu present case AilS HERALD doubts that the bill can get through the House land even in that event it would bo almost certain to encounter the Presidential veto With a practicaly empty treasury and the people everywhere groaning under excessive exces-sive taxation the Representatives are not likely to incur any expense which con be avoided and HARRISON has more than onco let it be known that it would be useless to send to him bills for public buildings However It is well that tho bill has passed j tho Senate and we hope it can begotten be-gotten through tho House One of these days Utah will be a state and then tho fact that Congressmen thought Salt Lake while in a territory was entitled to a government govern-ment building will make it easier to get the appropriation |