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Show ILL STANDARDIZE PUBLIC1L1GS Treasury Officials to Shortly Submit a Report Authorized Author-ized by Congress. "WASHINGTON, Deo. 6. Congress shortly will hnve an opportunity to digest di-gest sonio suggestions made in accordance accord-ance with Its own command for a reduction re-duction in government expenses by the adoption of a Btandard system for public pub-lic buildings. Treasury officials havo bepn at work for sovoral months on a preliminary report re-port to the public building oommittea authorized by congross and composed of the secretary ot the treasury, the postmaster general and tho attorney gcnoral and two members of tho senate and houso committees In chargo of public pub-lic buildings. Tho committeo was created cre-ated to work out aud approve some system by which a standard could be tormod for public buildings so that cit- a ics of a certain eizo should got a pre- scribed size of buildinirs. I B.y its adoption, it was argued, the nocessity for drawing plans tor every new lmildincr would bo eliminated, tho expense of the upkoop of the supervising supervis-ing architect's orfico would be lessened and the actual time consumed between tho authorization of a building and its completion' would gTontly bo diminished. At present tho supervising architect's office is six years behind in its work. This Is duo. it is claimod, largely to the fact that congross loppod oi about eighty positions m that office soyoral years ago. A suggestion which may ultimately be made to congress, which probably will meet with loss favor than standardization, stand-ardization, would put public building bills' on Bomowhat tho same plan as bills of tho improvement of rivers and harbors. It would mean that while congress would authorize a public building at a certain place, a report on the amount that should be expended there would be forthcoming from the public buildings commission. Congress is now appropriating between be-tween $25,000,000 and $4(),000,000 each year for public buildings. |