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Show SOW WILL MEET I II "OLyUARTERS" New State Capitol Held Toe Unfinished for Opening of Legislative Session Abandoning hope of being able to pre pare the legislative chambers at the new state capitoi build ng by January 11 when the 191 session will be opened the state yesterday asked the ity commission for the u e of the old quarters at the Ci y and County building The request was granted on a ba-ls of ilQ0 rent If the entire session is held in city quarters. Dav d Mattson secretary of state ex plained to the comm ssion that it m ght be posiole to hold the latter ha f of the sess on at the new build ng and that n any e ent It was p anned to conclude the sess on there But in iew of the unfin shed condition of the new quarters at present due to the labor contro e sy he was of the op n on that it was not j practicab e to open the sesJon at the I cap tol In addition to the rent to be pa d the state agrees to retint the chamber on the fourth floor of the joint bu Id n : where he lower house convenes and to put bo n the house and sena e cham bers in good shape The senate as usual 1 w I meet in the comm ss on chamber ! room on the th rd floor ! The t me is short for mak ng these ar i rangements and the s ate es erday be i gan negotiations to putting the work un : derwaj ; Asked why it was necessary to meet in ! the o d quarters the ecretary of state exp a ned that the new quarters we e not jet finished that e no se a d con tus on at the new bui d ng would Inte fere with the wo k of the legislators and that the lack of easy access to the re cords of the secretary of state, the eta e aud tor and to the state lib ary woudl be a further d advantage. |