Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-06 | Page 4 | Bills to Grade Capitol Grounds Laid on Table

BILLS TO GRADE CAPITOL GROUNDS LAID ON TABLE No emergency appropriation for the grading of the capitol, grounds is likely to he made. The joint senate and house committee on appropriations 1y a decisive vote decided to tahle the bllis providing for an appropriation of ? 100,000 for this purpose. The reason ajn emergency appropriation appro-priation was urged arose from the fact that the state capitol commission hoped i to find in the grading of the capitol . grounds work for hundreds of unem- i ployed men now in Salt Take. The com- ; miitee considered the matttr in considerable con-siderable detail yesterday and hoard Governor Spry nnd James Devine. superintendent super-intendent of the ca-pitol building and grounds, on the subject. Governor Spry said that the capitol commission had proposed using the sand and gravel taken from the capitol site in making a fill for the city's boulevard across City Creek canyon nar the east entrance of the capitol. However, he said, there was a disposition on the part of the city commissioners to favor a bririge across the canyon farther up and not at the site suggested by the eapitol commission. Representative "vTilford Dav moved the tabling of the grading appropriation bills. This was opposed by Senator L.. B. Wight f Summit ani Representative Dan B. Shields of Salt Lake. They wre outvoted, however, and the bills were tabled.