THE NEW STATE HOUSE.
Mr. SHOCKNEY offered a resolution that a Committee of Seven, to be composed of members of all political parties, be appointed by the Speaker, who shall be charged with the duty of inquiring into the differences of prices of materials used and the labor employed by the contractors of the new State House at the time the contract was awarded and nt the present time and to inquire into the responsibility of the contractors who have undertaken to build said house and the sufficiency of the hands, and to ascertain whether, under said contract, in view of the present prices of labor and material said State House can be built within the amount provided by law for the erection of said building, with power to send for persons and papers, to examine witnesses under oath, publish depositions, etc. The resolution was laid on the table and 2CO copies ordered printed.
A resolution passed that all stationery for the House be drawn from the Bureau of Public Printing.
