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Show AUDITORIUM TRITE TO SOLDIERS Committee Suggests to Legislature the Erection Erec-tion of Building at So. Temple and State ERECTION of a million dollar building on the corner of South Temple and State streets,! now occupied li the Amelia palace, pal-ace, as a memorial to the soldiers, sailors and marines who partlclated In j the world wr from Utah, and of all wii-r TPipmn organizaiions. wnone deeds it la the purpose of the memorial to commemorate, is the recommendation recommenda-tion of the 1Ttah etate memorial com- mission, whope report will be etihmit- ted to the legislature n Monday, j The report recommend that the memorial be in the form of a building comprising an auditorium with a seating seat-ing capacity of Tuoo, a trophy or relic ! room, and an appropriate office, cora-! cora-! mittee and cluhrooinM. The report say jhai sketches of buildings iiave been prepared by architects archi-tects at the invitation of the commission commis-sion and these; are at the disposal of I the legislature. It has been deemed Inadvisable, In-advisable, says the report, to attempt I to work out detailed plans, this action i being deferred )o I hi legislature. As lo a site for the memorial, the committee recommends unreservedly the soiithw est cmer of State and South Temple streets commonly known as the , f.ardo Hons corner, ns the most de- ' sirahle location for the iuilding of the chiincter ttuirgested. j CHURCHCOJ&ULT-SO j The committee reports it has ieen in cummunicaiion- wiiii frM pr;si-J dency of the Church of Ji-sum Christ of latter-day Saints, in whih title to the property rests, and aasuranre has been given by the first presidency that its members will be happy to give serious ."oiisidcration to t he proposition proposi-tion Wii jn it is decided to proceed with the erection of a memorial building of the character recommended by the committee. A building of the r naracter the committee com-mittee believes should be creeled, will cost about one million dollars. Salt I-ike ity has anticipated the con-striictiun con-striictiun of a staU m-m trial, says the report, and has provide, a fund of $10'i.uno through a bond isu as Ux share toward t be erection of a state ; memorial in the form of a building in Salt Iake City. Salt like co inty has informed the commission that It is in full sympathy wit h t he proposal to 1 erect a state memorial building in fair. Ijikn City, but declined to commit the; count y commissioners in regard to J participation in the cosf of such strnc-j ture because of changes in the majority; membership of the commissioners the first of the year. j GENERAL OPINION. jnanmucn um ciiis arm counties are not authorized by law to appropriate i money for the construction of m-mor- i.ils outside of their re-pectie boun-; boun-; darie. the committee has not cm-feri cm-feri e.j with the a ut hont ies of other ci tien and counties concerning the i matter. Suggestions In the shape of a memorial me-morial bridge, a grove, an observatory, highways, bronze tablets, statuary and various forms of buildings were presented, pre-sented, but the investigations r.f the committee lef! to the conclusion that the people of I'tah as a whole" favored a memorial build mg. and the recommendation recom-mendation has been prepa red accord -ingly. The memorial building recommended, says the committee, should le given free f'r aH conventions of veterans' organizations and meetings under the au pices of the state, county and city. Seven sets Of plans Were Submitted to the legiMainre by the commission. Of lb'- appropriation of $:ouu made fo the commission to conduct an investigation in-vestigation a ml call for plans, th-re has hfen expanded $3m1.6,. leaving aj iwlance of $l:S0.35 on band January 1.1 I |