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Show LFG FUTURE SPPlDllfTS I Practically AH of Harriman Tax Bs to Be Devoted IH to Magnificent Home for State's Official Family; Wizard's Influence iH Felt After Death I -GIVES ENOUGH TO COMPLETE STRUCTURE j H Virtually $2,270,000 Is Available Now and Work H May Begin in Three Months; Solons Make Record on Biggest Single Appro-priation Appro-priation in Utah's History Be it enacted by the legislature of the state of Utah: ll That the sum of $750,000 be, and the same is hereby appropriated fl out of any moneys or funds in the state treasury for the purpose of ll erecting a state capitol upon the capitol grounds in Salt Lake City; tl and the state auditor is hereby authorized and directed, upon -written ll application of the capitol commission, to draw his warrant or warrants lll upon the state treasurer in favor of the capitol commission for the ll amount herein specified, in sums or amounts as may be requosted from lll time to time by said commission. Il Three-quarters of a million dollars were appropriated Friday by the state legislature for the- erection of the new IH stato-capitol. The appropriation is by far the larg est direct appropriation ever made by the slate for a single purpose. The bill carrying the appropriation made a great record for (illicit enact- meat by the legislature. Within a few H hours after the bill had beeu introduced IH it hud passed both houses and it is now IH ready for tho signature of Governor Spry. Tho receipt of nearly $800,000 froqj the estate of E. H. Harriman, paid tu this state as inheritance tax, makes this enormous appropriation to tho state . tH capitol possible. This fund, available 1 at once, makes possible the immediate jH construction of the new state capitol. jH The addition of this amount to the slate capitol fund increases Jt to such jH an amount that there is immediately available practically the entire sum JM needed for the completion of the beau- jH tiful uew structure. At Opportune Time. The members of the legislature were practically unanimous in their enthu- siasm over the opportunity to appro- priate this much money tor the new state capitol. They were all agreed that the welcome surprise, whereby the jH state bocame the richer by nearly .tSQO,- 000. could not have como at a more op-portune op-portune time. It was pointod out that jH during his life Mr. Harrinian had been an important factor in the development of the state and that his importance, to the progress of Utah was not lessened by his death. The slate capitol, the construction of which will be hastenod bv the inheritance tax from the Ham-man Ham-man estate, will be a monument to the progress of tho state in which Mr. Harriman played such an important The passage of the bill appropriating three-quarters of a million for the stnte capitol was anticipated when tho members of the Republican caucus Thursday night voted to allow this up- propria I ion. However, the unanimity H-H uf the sentiment in favor of the appro-pri.ition appro-pri.ition was scarcely expected. Somo objections to the appropriation were H evpected. However, the bill' passed tHB both houses by a vote that was prac .B-aj tically unanimous. Jn the senate tlio BBBJ vote in favor of the bill wa thirteen to BBBJ three, while in tho house it was uuam- IBJBJ Marks Introduces Bill. BB The bill was introduced iu the sen- ate by Senator Charles Marks of IBB Salt Uiko shortly after the body con- IBKBJ venod for the day Friday morning. IH Senator Marks moved a suspension of BKBJ the rules and tho placing of the bill flB on its final passage. This was carried flKBJ and the rollcall was taken on lhc final BKBJ passage of the bill with this result: IBBBJ Ayes Badger. Booth, Hyde. Ivcrson, IBBBJ 1, unt. Marks. Olson. Sevy, Smith. Stookey, IBBBj Williams. Wilson. President Gardner 13. HBB Noes Burton. Horsley. Kelly 3. IBBBJ Absent Funic. Kuchler BBB It was sent to the house immediately BBB and there, under suspension of the. rules. BBB it was Immediately placed on its Dual BBBJ passage. Itoprosentulivo David H. Mor- ils of Washington county, loader of the BBBJ Democratic minority In the house, asked flBBJ whether the million-dollar bond iissiio BB previously uuthoiized is also lo be dls- BBBJ nosed of. Speoker Robinson said that BHB be bad been informed by Governor Spry BBBJ that It will be unnecessary to sell any BBB of the bonds for two years The roll BBB was .then eaPcd and the bill was passed bv the unanimous vote of l.ho house. BWfll Will Sign Bill Today. Tho eoinmilloe on enrolled and en- BVfl crossed bills In the senate had tho mens- BB uro nulekly enmossed. It was then signed BBBJ bv Presldnnt Gardner and sent to tlie BBH house, where It was signed by Speaker BBBJ Robinson The bill will go to the got jBB oruor early this morning. Governor Spry BBBJ has announced his Intention of signing jBBBJ Continued on Pago Eleven. 'H tBwJ ' i ji wiijrir - ' r";r" ''"5bwb1 Iiopite $751.1 IB f IM 3 Set Apart Most of Harri-i Harri-i Inheritance-Tax; Spry v to Sign Bill at Once. Jontinucd From Pago One. isurc as soon as lie pets It. Be-lufall Be-lufall the thre.o-n,unrters of a miliars, mil-iars, most of tho amount of this in Inheritance tax. will he avall-: avall-: the construction of tho state luestlon as to whether or "not the nee lux wan subject to the proof pro-of the bill which recently passed aside a percentage of the rovc-thc rovc-thc state for the University of he Agricultural college, and the Normal school was raised. Tho nncc fund for these Institutions; tie bill which recently passed the re. Is derived from 2s per cent total amount of th pen oral tax the state after the thre mills for school purposes and the half mill ? hlch shoo! purposes have been I. The money derived from tho ii of th' nherltance tar. law goes ceiicral funu r.f the state and Is ject to the permanent mainte-Business mainte-Business Mon Rejoice, news of the passage by both X the bill appropriating- three-of three-of a million dollars for the crec-i crec-i new stale capltol quickly spread s city and the action occasioned : on the part of the business men. to the new state capltol Is now d It Is expected that within the ee months the actual eonslrue-k eonslrue-k will bo commenced. Illion dollar bond Issue previous-irized previous-irized made the erection of the certain, but did not make ths rived from this Issue Immediate-able. Immediate-able. Tho Issuance and sale of Is would require considerable lowever. the Inheritance tax . Is tely available and this, with oth- which arc also available, will lent to keep the construetionlfro-the construetionlfro-the next two years, after which Is will be issued and sold and Icrived to complete (he constructs construc-ts beautiful new capltol. Itlon to the inheritance tax there ble for use at once ?2n0,U00 de-m de-m the refund of the bond issue $200,000 from the bond Issue au-two au-two years aso. and $70,000 de-nn de-nn the sale of state lands under islons of the enahlln? act. These 1th the inheritance tax and the lollar bond issue, brine the total-now total-now available for the construc-ii construc-ii state capltol up to a total of T'uder the law, the new capl-cost capl-cost not to exceed two and one-lions one-lions of dollars, so that practl-hurIi practl-hurIi money for the completion I; structure is now avanawe. Will Overlook Whole Valley, odlual efforts have been made ever Utah was admitted lo the union to i a .state capltol building. Some apo Salt Lake City deeded to tho government one of the most bcautl-tcs bcautl-tcs for a capitol bulldlnp In the valley. The site consists of twen-; twen-; acres of land on a beautiful, com-iifr com-iifr eminence on Capltol hill at the ) Stale street. From this elevation ipllol will overlook the entire val-dth val-dth Its panorama of mountain and and ihc expanse of tho Great Salt Everyone who has visited the site ronotinccd it the prettiest location capltol of anv state In the union, years the state has Riven Its at-ii at-ii lo beaulifyhiK these grounds, iful trees and flowering shrubs have planted annually on these grounds real, care has been taken to add to muty of the location. As a result, lace is now one of the prettiest in the country, i years ago Governor Spry was Ihc In a serious effort lo secuio a 1 for Utah, lie sent a special mes-to mes-to the state legislature urging tho of the enactment of legislation to possible the erection of the capltol. or C. K Marks of Salt Lake led ;lit in the legislature for legislation this line, and as a result a series : measures was passed by the lcgis-of lcgis-of these authorized the erection of If capltol at a cost not to exceed ,000 and placed tho work under the ion of a state capltol commission islst of the governor, the secretary ite. the attorney general and four Hive members. Another bill ailed ail-ed Ihe refund of the territorial bond and the use or Its redemption fund, ntlng to $2.'.0,000. for the erection Btate capltol. A third bill provided bond issue of ?200rooo for slate eapi-irposes. eapi-irposes. The fourth bill provided for cial election to authorize the levv-T levv-T a one-mill tax for a period of y years lo cover the cost of build -lie capltol The fifth measure was nt resolution proposing an ameiul-to ameiul-to the state constitution permitting crease in the bonded Indebtedness e stale to an amount equal to 11 cut of tho assessed valuation of the proposed 1-mill tax for state cap-urposi-s was defeated at the special on but at the general election in Jie amndnicnt to Incronso the bond-lebtedness bond-lebtedness of the state was adopted inade a part of the constitution. Hie special elect ion in the spring of to determine whether or not the U tax should bo levied nothing was riicre was approximately half a n available for construction work, sovernor, however, had no assurance It would bo possible- lo- secure anv funds for this purpose and lie tlo-lo tlo-lo wall until the money was in before commencing work. Tor that n the capilol commission was not intod and the work was confined to a more systematic and thorough improvement improve-ment of tho grounds. Senator Marks again took up the fight for the capltol In the slate legislature and secured the passage of a bill authorizing au-thorizing the Issuance and disposal of 51.000,000 worth of state bonds bearing I per cent interest. This bill passed botli houses and w;as signed by the governor. Now comes the riarrlman inheritance tax. Senator Marks again fathered the latest state capitol measure and secured the direct appropriation of three-quarters of a million more for the capitol. Next Step Is Commission. The next step In the procedure toward a new capilol will be the appointment of a state capltol commission, ruder the law not more than two of the appointive members shall belong lo the same poltlcal party. This Inhibition is provided lest some day the places on tho commission should become political capital. The governor, gov-ernor, however, has taken tho stand that politicians arc not. the men for positions on the capitol commission. The biggest men Jn the stale, In the governor's opinion, opin-ion, are not too big for places on this commission and It is Ills purpose to select se-lect four of the most prominent and ablo men of the stale for the appointive places on the capltol board. Governor Spry will send most of his appointments of slate officers lo the senate sen-ate today for confirmation, but it is probable that the members of he capitol commission will not be among them. The press of legislative affairs has taken up so much of the governor's time that he has not been able to give the capltol commission the attention that it deserves. It is probable that the governor will not appoint, the capilol commission until after the adjournment of the state legislature. As soon as the capilol commission Is appointed plans for the immediate construction con-struction of the capitol will be made-The made-The architects' plans will be first considered. con-sidered. Several of the most prominent architects of this and other stales are al-reaclv al-reaclv preparing plans for tho now capltol. capl-tol. " These plans will be submitted to the commission. The selection of the plans will be based on the stability of proposed construction, convenience of arrangement ar-rangement and beauty of architectural design. Favors Utah MateraL Governor Spry's plan Is lo have tho new capltol constructed almost entirely of Utah material, lie points out tho facl that Utah has practically all the building material for the construction. The building stone of Utah is as good as thorc Is in the world: mountain mahogany ma-hogany will furnish beautiful hardwood for t'ne building and Utah onyx and black marble, will supply the handsome Interior finishings. Everything except the steel framework may be secured In I his state. The commencement of the construction of the state capltol. It is predicted, will revive a building boom in tills city and stale that will bo unparalleled TJic slate alone promises lo spend millions In the construction of now buildings. In addition to the capitol the state will erect a benutlful stato armory on the cap lol grounds. A new main building at the university will be constructed at a co3t of $300,000, At Logan a gymnasium nt a ccst of $75,000 will bo erected for tho Agricultural college of Utah. In Logan can voti a 510.000 electrical power Plant win be built lo supply light for all the xtale Institutions, including the slate cap-lull cap-lull the state university, tho agricultural agricul-tural college, tho school for the deaf and bllii . the state prison and the state In-d In-d istrlal school. The example of the state I will in followed In the construction of many new buildings by private individuals. individ-uals. , |
