Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-03-31


subscribe If was the first person on hand, but
does not the gentleman know that the provisions
Of the company's bill allows single person to
absorb the entire stock? 1t il believed BY almost
every citizen Of Washington that foreign
company is ready to step in and subscribe for
the whole amount.
heard nothing of it. L expect to subscribe for
as much of the stock as can pay for, and sup
pose Mayor Bowen can do the same.
RRJOINDRR By Mr.. RIDDLE.
Mr.. Riddle, in reply, said 1t was not proposed
to make his building exclusively market
house, and he did not propose to allow the gen.
tleman to misstate his views. What they in
sisted upon was. that the first floor should be
devoted exclusively to market purposes. The
interests OF the butchers demanded that and
what they did with the superstructure was alto
tleman's feelings, he would not have it known
that there was q market-house in the city of
Washington. His prejudice to pork and cab
bage, market ofiai and flies that wouldn't
shoe" was unconquerable, and it did not CON
Germ him whether the business portion Of the
community who are to locate In his market
house were accommodated or not
The grand hotel, the boot and shoe stores, dry
goods, millinery and haberdasher establish
ments, In fact, everything except what belongs
about market house was not Questionable to
would bear in mind that the dcsidsratum sought
was q convenient and suitable market house,
and that the parties most interested In the
and carry on business within Its walls.
It was no place for Q hotcl-a tavern! 1t can
never be made q hotel. II you don't want a
market there, pluck 1t up and place the new
market somewhere else, where II can have air
and light and convenience for its uses; but don't
wall 1t in by stores.
Mr.. Stanton, in reply to the assertion Of some
Of the speakers, said that the corp0rators had
aimed entirely to suit the wishes OF all classes
1t was not matter OF speculation, but grand
improvement, in which all Wereinterested. The
corporators had labored most strenu0usly for tho
passage OF the bill in the House, and for some
reason, . mystery to him, opposition was now
offered from the very quarter from whence en-
c0uragement had como twelve months ago.
Strange to say, the Councils Of Washington
were then as unanimously in favor OF the pro-
ject a. they are now opposed to IL, and that, too
with the approval of the Mayor.
Mr.. BeWen.-That was q different Council,
however, from the present.
Mr.. Stanton.-But the same Mayor.
Mr.. Pardon Let me ask the gentleman IL he
would be willing to have his bill 50 amended as
to submit the question to the people the next
general election whether the city or the COM
pany should build the market-house?
Mr.. Stanton said 1t was for Congress to say
IL they would submit their legislation to repeal
or endorsement by the people, but for himself,
he would object to anything Of the kind intended
to defeat or delay the Improvement.
Mayor Bowen suggested that Alderman Con-
molly might like to say something on the ques-
ton II the committee would indulge him.
Mr.. CONNOLLY's REMARKS.
Mr.. Connolly said that was mistake; he had
no such desire. But since he had been called
upon he would explain that he came there In an