Show BUILDING FOR the standard hn received from sentor a copy of bis bill aa originally introduced and aa mended nd bussed fussed by the united senate appropriating for at public building to bo constructed in Ogden atie bill introduced by sen on december 4 1001 asked ain aalop of wals referred to the senate committee on uble buildings and grounds thal committee making the following report on the alth of last months the committee on public bui and brounda gro unda to whom was referred alie bill S r to provide for the purchase of a site and for the erection of public building thereon at ogdan in alie state of utah having had the ame under careful consideration it back with an amendment and recommend that lie bill do pass ogdan lwe a population of the city in without ft public building the secretary of tac treasury in his report on thia bill has estimated that a building necessary to accommodate the post united states courts and other government at ogden can be constructed ted for and lie estimates eliat additional is necessary for a site the committee after careful con Bide ration has decided that is sufficient to construct a building to meet the immediate needs of the public service at ogdan and therefore recommend a reduction in the appropriation to that amount the bill as amended passed the senate on march ard 3rd and on march ath was to the house committee on buildings and grounds where it now awaits action which cannot be other than favorable owing to the recommendation made by the secretary of the treasury which favored an appropriation greater than granted by the senate the measure as it went to the house committee is as follows AN ACT to provide for alie purchase of a site and for the erection of a public building thereon at ogden in the state of utah be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the united states of america in congress assembled that the secretary of the treasury be and lie is hereby authorized and directed to acquire by purchase condemnation or otherwise a site and caffee to be erected theron a suitable building including fireproof vaults heating and ventilating apparatus elevators and approaches pro aches for the use and tion of the united states court post office and other in the city of og dan in the state of utah such site shall contain at least forty thousand square feet ot ground that the coat of such site and building including the vaults heating and ventilating apparatus pa ratus elevators and approaches complete shall not exceed alie sum of two hundred thousand dollars tho proposals for alio sale of land suitable for aard site shall be invited by public advertisement in two or more of the newspapers of largest circulation in said city for the period of at least twenty one days prior to the date specified in said advertisement for the hopeni ng of eaid proposals propos ala that thereafter the secretary of the treasury shall cause examination to be made of the said bids and alie said proposed sites and shall cause statements maps and plats thereof to be taken and submitted to him and thereupon the secretary of the treasury shall finally determine the location of said building and the amount to be paid for the site thereof that there shall 0 o available for the purposes of the said building the money of the united states ury not otherwise appropriated to be expended under the direction of the secretary of alic treasury in the purchase of s ite in the preparation of plans and specifications and the commencement of the construction of the building during the fiscal year tho sum of seventy five thousand colars if the bill becomes law of the will be immediately available for the purchase of site preparation of plans and the commencement of work therefore we expect to seo the government building well under way before the end of alie year |