1308 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BUILDING. 
December 19, 1889—Senate. 
Mr. H. M. TELLER (by request) introduced bill (S. 1553): 
That a fireproof building for the use and accommodation. of the United States 
Geological Survey shall be erected on the Government reservation between the 
National Museum and the Army Medical Museum, in the city of Washington, District 
of Columbia, and the said building shall be constructed on the plan submitted by 
the Director of the Geological Survey, with such modifications as shall be found 
necessary or advantageous without materially increasing the cost thereof; and the 
construction of said building shall be in charge of a commission composed of the 
Supervising Architect of the Treasury, the Architect of the Capitol, and the Director 
of the Geological Survey, who shall be empowered to make contracts for the con- 
struction thereof, after proper advertisements have been made, and to employ the 
necessary persons, and the money appropriated for said building shall be disbursed 
by the chief disbursing clerk of the Geological Survey. 
Src. 2. That the sum of $800,000 is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the construction of said building; and 
the cost of said building shall not exceed said amount. 
Src. 3. That it shall be the duty of the said commission carefully to scrutinize the 
plan which may be deemed preferable, and to adopt it only on condition that the 
entire cost for the erection and completion of said building shall not exceed the 
amount specified in this act. 
Referred to Committee on Appropriations. 
January 6, 1890—House. 
Mr. Puitre 8. Posr introduced bill (H. 3827), same as 8S. 1553, 
December 19, 1896. 
Referred to Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. 
March 22, 1890—House. 
Mr. Samurt Dresie, from Committee on Public Buildings and 
Grounds, submitted Report (H. 1007), to accompany bill (H. 3827). 
The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, to «which was 
referred the bill (H. 3827) for the erection of a public building for 
the use and accommodation of the United States Geological Survey 
upon the Government reservation in the city of Washington, D. C., 
has had the same under consideration, and recommends its passage. 
The United States Geological Survey is at present located in the 
Hooe Building, the Adams Building, the National Museum, and in 
nine cities in various parts of the Union. The force consists of 395 
persons, now occupying 68,605 square feet of space. This space is 
entirely too limited for effective work, as anyone going through the 
Hooe Building will see at a glance that the employees of the Survey 
are crowded into small and inconvenient quarters. Estimates have 
been made of the cost of a fireproof building of six stories, with an 
area of 20,000 square feet on each floor, and the estimates have been 
submitted to the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, whose opinion 
fixes the cost at $800,000. 
