Excerpt from The California Architect and Building News, Vol. 16: January, 1895 The principle of the Bill, namely, the instituting a Com mission of high character to have charge of the architectural work of the Government, and to distribute the work amongst the most skillful architects in the country, is unquestionably a correct one. The Bill has received the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. It has passed tue Committee on Public Build ings and Grounds, of the House, whose indorsement could not be stronger, and the Bill is now regularly before the House. Owing to its introduction at the end of the last ses sion of Congress, at a time when the House was entirely absorbed by the Tariff revision, it was impossible to have a day set for its consideration and passage; therefore it had to go over to the present session of Congress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.