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57TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT
2d Session. No. 3158.
PUBLIC BUILDING NOW BEING CONSTRUCTED IN
CHICAGO.
JANUARY 16, 1903.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. MERCER, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds,
submitted the following
ADVERSE REPORT. -
[To accompany H. Res. No. 344.]
The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, to whom was
referred the resolution (H. Res. No. 344) requesting the Secretary of
the Treasury, if not incompatible with public interests, to furnish the
House of Representatives certain information with reference to the
public building now in process of construction in the city of Chicago,
Ill. having considered the same, submit the following report:
Resolution No. 344 was introduced in the House of Representatives
by Representative Mann, of Illinois, and referred to your committee.
Thereupon a copy of said resolution was referred to the Secretary of
the Treasury for consideration. On January 12, 1903, the Secretary
of the Treasury filed with your committee a full report responsive to
said resolution No. 344, which report is herewith filed as a part of the
report of your committee. The Secretary of the Treasury having
anticipated formal action by your committee and the House of Repre-
sentatives in-the manner above set forth, no further action by your com-
mittee with reference to said resolution is necessary, wherefore your
committee recommends that this report, including the report made to
this committee by th3 Secretary of the Treasury, be printed as a
House document, and that resolution No. 344 lie upon the table.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,
Washington, January 19, 1903.
SIR: In response to your letter of December 11, 1902, in re resolution No. 344, I
herewith inclose the following papers relating thereto, viz:
Copy of-
Report of board of award, interior finish and completion, bid and contract to John
Pierce, New York.
Report of board of award, draining, plumbing, and gas fitting, bid and contract to
Wells & Newton Company, New York.
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