...not exceed three thousand dollars. Some time during the last session of Congress, I was requested by the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, of the House of Representatives, to consult with Mr. Clark, the architect, as to some mode of giving a better ventilation to the representatives'...

...not exceed three thousand dollars. Some time during the last session of Congress, I was requested by the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, of the House of Representatives, to consult with Mr. Clark, the architect, as to some mode of giving a better ventilation to the representatives'...

...Representatives; and thccoinmissionermay adopt, with the approval of the President of the United States and the chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, any plan or combination of parts of the plans thus submitted...

...Representatives concurring,) that the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the Senate, conjointly with the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the House of Representatives, be, and they are hereby, directed to inquire into the origin of the fire by which the Smithsonian Institution...

...year. My predecessor, Postmaster-General Creswell, in the month of J auuary, 1873, addressed a letter to the chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the House of Eepresentatives, transmitting a plan and design of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department...

...the Senate be instructed to examine into the rights of the Senate as to said rooms, to confer with the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the House of Representatives, and to report bv bill or otherwise. Attest : JOHN C. BURCH, Secretary. The committee have had the same...

...expression by the medical profession of the country, of opinion that such a building should be provided, the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the House of Representatives of the last Congress submitted a report in favor of the granting such a building, and a bill making...

...Department. The subject is not new, having been investigated by the Committee on Public Lands of the Senate, the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the House of Representatives, and represented in various communications, within the last few years, to the legislative branch of...

...commission, consisting of the chairman of the Committee on Public-Buildings and Ground» of the Senate, the chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the House of Representatives, and the Postmaster-General, which commission, or a majority of its members, shall be authorized to...

...respectfully urge its prompt and favorable consideration. On February 18, 1890, a communication was addressed to the chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the House of Eepresentatives, recommending the passage of the bill for the sale of the present site and the purchase...