Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-03-22

Action Of the House COmmi tee thl i,
Morning
The House committee on the District OF CO.
lumbia this morning had under consideration
THE REFORM SCHOOL RIIL

| lumbia this morning had under consideration
THE REFORM SCHOOL BILL
introduced in the House by Mr.. Stark weather
| In January, which provides that the board f
| trustees of the Reform School of the .strict
| shall cause monthly accounts to be rendered to
the proper accounting officers of the District for
| the expenses OF boys sent there by the cities
| OF Washington and Georgetown or the county.
| TOR which they shall pay S175 per week
instead Of sl.J0 as heretofore. 1t further pro-
Vldes that hereafter any boy under sixteen years
| who Is destitute OF home or means of support.
| or who is idle and incorrigible, or wandering
| about uncared Tor by relatives or friends, ana
l whose parents, II he has any living IA re. are
| unable to pay the expenses OF his support in tie
Reform School, may be sent to the said school,
at the expense OF the city or county, by the
| Judge Of the Police Court, the Governor of the
territory or the president of the board OF trus
tees OF said school. Every boy sent to the Re
iorm School shall remain therein until he il
twehty-one years OF age, unless sooner dis
| charged or bound as an apprt ntice to SOM
| proper person by TIE board OF trustees.
but no boy shall be retained after the superin-
tendent shall have reported him fully reformed
whenever there shall be as large number o.
toys III the school as can be properly accommO-
dated, it shall be the duty of the president OF the
BOARD OF trustees to give notice to the criminal
and police courts OF the fact, whereupon no bows
shall be sent to the school by the said courts
until notice shall be given them by tue president
OF TIE board that moro can be received. If any
person shall eptice or attempt to entice, away
from said school any boy legally committed to
the same, or shall harbOr, conceal, or aid in
escaped from the school, such person hall upon
conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of mis-
dt meanor, and shall pay tine Of not less than
ten nor more than one hundred dollars. which
shall be paid to the treasurer of the board of
trustees and any trustee, or the superintendent OF
said school, and any police man, shall have power,
ana IL Is hereby made their duty, to arrest anv
boy, when in their power to do, who sh all have
escaped from said school and return him thereto
An appropriation of $4,000 is made to pay the
annual salaries of the superintendent 81 500;
two assistant superintendents, $50 each: and
the matron, 5000; and the incidental expenses
including farming utensils, clothing, fuel, SER
want hire, nc. 1t provides for the purchase of
another site for the school, to be selected by the
Secretary OF the Interior and the board of trus-
tees, upon which the building herein provided
for shall be erected, and approprlates SIO1 0a9
tor the purchase OF such ste and for the purnosa
of erecting building thereon for the use OF the
school, and the further of 80 600 for arrears
of expenses Of said school during the fiscal wear
ending June 80, 1872.
DR.. Grafton Tyler spoke at ssme length of the
maiariai influences around the present site near
the Chain Bridge, and urged the necessity OF
removing 1t to some point either on the Rock
Vile road, or over the Eastern Branch, a~av
from the river.
Judge Smell said large proportion of the
petty crimes before his court were committed
by colored boys, who were driven to petty lar
GENES BY their poverty. This District must
look to Congress, and should be literally pro-
yided for by Congress. Educational institutions
were much cheaper than prisons, and a reform
school to educate boys should be established
large enough to accommodate all. He frequently
had applications to send incOrrigible boys to the
institution, but under the law could not do So
Judge Sargent said he could get a farm of
one hundred acres for 10000, and fifty
acres adjoining 1t, for $500.
Mr. Eidridge moved that the committee rec
ommend to the committee on Appropriations
the necessity OF making this appropriation, and
request them to report in favor of it.
The committee decided to report favorably or
the bill.
MORTGAGES.
The bill introduced in December last by Gen
Chapman, relating to mortgages in the District
was n0n-concurred III, and will be reported
against in the House.
TIE BILL TO AMEND THE UsUEY LAWS
in the District, was referred to Mr.. Eldridge. II
provides that the interest upon the loan or for
bearance OF money, goods, or things in action
snail De at the rate OF six dollars year upon
one hundred dollars, and no greater intercs
shall be taken, directly or Indirectly unless tn
agreement to pay higher rate of interest be
made in writing and signed by the party 10 be
charged; but such rate of interest shall, in n'
case, exceed the rate of ten dollars a year for
every hundred dollars, an interest NAV be TAX
en- yearly, or for any shorter period in advance
mat All interest exceeding ten dollars year on
one hundred dollars shall be deemed usurious
and illegal as to the excess only, and in any
acton uron contract affected by such usury
such excess shall be recovered by the defendant
whenever il has been reserved or paid before the
bringing OF the suit; and that this law shall ap
ply to the remedies on every contract made he
fore the passage thereof, when the debt or thing
the passage of the same.
DEFECTIVE TITLES To PROPERTY.
The bill introduced in February by Genera,
Chapman to cure defective titles in the DistricI
OF Columbia, which provides that the title to
All real property lying and situate in the Dis
,riet OF Columbia, which has vested in the
lnlted states by escheat per dcfectum sdnguinis
IN cases of persons heretofore held in slavery
be vested in the children of such persons by
them recognized as such, and in the descend
ans OF such children, II deceased. and such
children are hereby capacitated to inherit ON
rom The other or others, was referred to judge
Poland. Also, the bill for
THE REGULATION OF EQUITY PRoCEEDIyG>
which provides that the Supreme Court of tn,
District shall have jurisdiction in equity t.
decree partition of any lands or tenements. or
any rIght, interest, or estate therein, either
legal or equitable, on the bill or petition of any
Joint tenant, tenant i'm common, parcener or
concurrent owner, whether claiming by descenl
or purchase; or If 1T appear that said lands or
tenements or right, interest. or estate therein
cannot be divided without loss or injury to the
parties interested, the court may decree
sale thereof, and division of the money
arising from such sale among the parties ac-
coidlng to their respective rights; this IL
apply TO cases where all the parties are OF
,gn age 9 cases where All are infants
to cases where SOME are Of full age and some "a.
rants; TO cases where some or all are non compos
mentis; and to cases where any or all are non
residents And any party, whether of full age
act; an Infant by guardian or next friend, and a
noa compoS msRtis by committee friend
Nneh SUIT Is instituted for the sale OF real on
personal property, or where from the nature OF
the case sale Is the proper mode of relief the
court, I'm its discretion, may order sale OF thu
property before final decree is satisfied clearly
by proof, that at the final hearing a sale wouid
be decreed, and may order the money arising
from such sale to be deposited or invested TO br
distributed as the court shall direct by its final
decree.
The Senate Committee on the District
The Senate Committee on the District of Co
lumbia to-day agreed to ask to be discharged
from the further consideration of the bill restor-
ing the control of the Jail to the marshal TIL
committee also agreed to take the same actor
with reference to the petition for relief of Mrs
Mary +. +. Purcell, widow of the late Undo,
Purcell, of the Orphans Court Mr. NJ. ThomS-
son, of the District bar, was before the commit
tee, and made an argument in favor of granting
the prayer of the petitioner. The Commits.
agreed to report favorably ON the bill for the
relief Of Memorial parish Of the Protestan,
Episcopal church Of the District of Columbia
The bill provides that so much Of the act of IN,
legislature Of Maryland, passed 179s and now
in force In this District, as requires an actua'
residence within the limits of Protestant Epis
copal parishes as qualification for voting Al
parish meetings or otherwise in church matters
be modified to entitle all persons subject TO ey
isting laws to vote at such meetings who shall
have contributed to the support OF the churche,
to " hich thew seyerallv belong