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��the tarsney act, 1893 1896 185 cause of the political influence he could marshall to secure him employment, and whose greatest solicitude is to prolong the tenure of his employment in delaying the completion of the work.67 Then there was the issue of the private architects right to prepare designs for federal government buildings. It was felt that successful architects, as the culmination of their labors, should be rewarded with commissions for federal buildings.68 The nation has a right to expect that the public buildings should at least be fair examples of the architectural talent of the country, while the profession has no less right to the government patronage. 69 The enhancement of the ar- chitectural profession and its leaders was felt to be inherent in the im- plementation of the Tarsney Act and the passage of the McKaig and Aldrich bills. The American Architect regarded the provisions of the McKaig Bill as establishing: [a] means of making an open distinction between the real leaders of the profession and the rank and file, and will give to those who are in the ranks merely because of present youth and inexperience a reason for greater exertion, in the hope of attaining, finally, the distinction of having been entrusted with Government work a distinction which, at present, few true architects crave.70 Architects also desired the opportunity to design major public buildings. As John M. Carr�re stated: No architect can have a higher ambition, than to successfully de- sign and execute a public monument, and it is my belief that noth- ing could be more educational or more improving to the profes- sion at large in this country, than this opportunity to study monumental architecture. Twenty-two story buildings are expen- sive and quite elevated, but not at all elevating.71 The aia also viewed its members as possessing special insight into the importance of the Tarsney Act and the McKaig and Aldrich bills. Congressmen did not realize the widespread influence of architec- ture in educating the masses. . . . We do. We know how important it is. You cannot expect the average Congressman to take the artistic view of the subject. 72 Press coverage of the ongoing legislative process depicted Senator James Henderson Berry of Bentonville,

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