Excerpt from Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations: Consisting of Messrs. Cannon, Hainer, W. A. Stone, Sayers, and Layton, in Charge of Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill for 1898 The chairman. We want to ask you about the public buildings, so as to ascertain the amount of money absolute] necessary to be expended the coming fiscal year in order to provide sufficiently an fully to meet all requirements for public buildings in course of construction; but we want to be assured that we do not recommend more than is absolutely necessary to carry you through the next fiscal year. 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.