$200,000 For A Postoffice In Ann Arbor Is Sought

Congressman Henry C. Smith introduced a bill in the House of Representatives at Washington Monday appropriating $200,000 to build a post-office in Ann Arbor. The congressman has promised to push this bill vigorously and it is said anticipates no difficulty in securing its passage at this  session of congress.

Those who are pushing the bill from this end are quite enthusiastic over their chances of success this spring. They say that Ann Arbor is the only first class postoffice in Michigan that is not located in a government building. They say that many second class postoffices in Michigan have been given government buildings. They show that many cities of smaller population than Ann Arbor have been given postoffice buildings. They point to the fact that cngress grants public buildings to small towns that many of the congressmen have never heard of, while Ann Arbor is one of the best known cities in the country. They claim 19 graduates of Ann Arbor in the House of Representatives.

Fitzgibbons, the well known Washington correspondent, telegraphs his paper, the News, as follows:

Washington, Jan. 5. - President Angell, of the University of Michigan, is one of the heads of the movement to have the government build a postoffice building at Ann Arbor to cost $200,000.

Representative Mercer, chairman of the house committee on public buildings, is a graduate of the U. of M., and President Angell will personally take up the matter with him for pressing the bill this session.