Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-05-08
FUTURE GOVERNMENT OF THE
BISTRlCr.
Petition to Conxress

hcAhOm 10 COD&feS0s
The following petition was presented In
both houses of Congress to-day:
"Your petitioners respectfully represent
mat tney are citizens of the District of
columbia. That the doubtful political rela-
lions existing between the District of Co.
lumola and the government of the United
StaIes, Inc prodfgious debt, of which scarcely
nole is known than that 1t is constantly
Increasing; the uncertainty OF the amount Of
me taxes to be levied and collected from
year 10 year; the reckless and improvident
manner In which the public moneys have
peer, 1een expended; the enormously expensive
Improvements made-mauy of which must
now De replaced; the complicated system of
government, extravagant In its expandi-
lures beyond all precedent; the selecting of
strangers TO administer the government who
are ignorant of our laws, unacquainted witt
our wants, Indifferent to our necessities,
and not In Sympathy with our people, have
brought financial ruin and disgrace upon the
District, Impoverished many OF its citizens,
rendered property unprouuctive and depreci-
ated Its value, made the cities OF the District
unattract1ve to strangers as place of per-
would otherwise have sought investment in
the District, and have, in a word, brought
dishonor of the general government that has
tine power of exclusive legislation over it,
Your petitioners, animated by sincere
desire to restore the solvency, preserve the
honor and secure the permanent happiness
and prosperity of the people of the District
humbly pray that your honorable bodies
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legislate that our rights may be protected
and preserved; that the people of the Dis
trict may be wholly relieved from the I'M
, Jaw debt created by the agents of
the general government without their con-
sent, and over whose official conduct they
had no control whatever; that unnecessary
and wasteful expenditures of the public
moneys may be arrest 4, rigid economy be
enf0rced; the form of government simpli-
ned-its relations to the general government
ascertaiDed and fixed by stable laws; and
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ment be justly and fairly proportiOned be-
tween the general government and the Dis
And that these things may be fully ac-
compl1shed, your petitioners further pray
mat rigid, thorough and exhaustive in
qulry and investigation may be instituted
OF this debt, and how much thereof has been
created corruptly, dishonesty, or unlawful
y, and that all wrong doors may be made to
out and inexorably punished.
w. w. Corcoran, Alexander Ray, George
w. Riggs, w. Gunton, Edward Temple, II.
VIM. b. Kibbey, John p. Fran kiln, G. W.
Utlermehle, H 8. Davis, John E Norris, A
T. Perry, John T.. Kendall, f. Wheatley, c.
; NJ MStihews, josiah Dent, trustee Of Lin
j, Van Riswick, G. f. Kennedy, Francis
Mohun, E. e. White, II. Polkinhorn, John
c. Harkness, Thomas G. Wilson, Thomas
Stewart, James w. Barker, Charles B.
Church. L. F. Clark. NJ. w. Gait & Brother,
a. A. Wilson, Joseph Red fern, Henry Thorn,
Berj. Beall, Thomas Francis, Thomas b. En-.
twisle, Samuel Stott, Charles Edmonston,
Thomas g. France, :. ShillIngton, George NJ.
Thomas Berry, John M. Young, Joan ii.
Marin, Noble ID. Larner, A. Pollok, James
d. Embry, Edmund Hanly, A. Ross Ray,
charles ens siogssa, Johnson Bros, Jackson,
BRO, d Co, III. 8. johnson, Daniel b. Clarke,
W. NJ. Gait, Andrew j. Joyce, Michael
Greer ~ r.. Richardson, ohm w. Wright,
Charles ID; Maxwell, J. 8. Hopkins, James
W. Pumphrey, ]. P, Klipgle."
Association of Tax.Pay ers
w. w. Corcoran and a number of other
citizens of tie District have formed an asso-
ciat1on iof the following purposes:
perity of the District OF Columbia by obtain
ing from the general government q proper
recognition and form OF government for said
District, with honest office holders, byI Sc
curing the passage oy Congress Of just laws,
liking with precision the relations of said
District to the general government, and es-
taolisblng stable system of taxation, re.
Just and stipulated proportion of the ex-
penses Of said District.
Secord. To ascertain the nature and ex-
inquiring into the expenditures OF the late
government of the District, including the
Board of Public Works, of the present Com
mlssloners OF the District, and OF the late
Third. To relieve the District OF Columbia
from all debts still subsistipg unlawfully or
fraudnlently created by the agents Of the
Fourth. To correct the errors of preceding
governments In Improving the sewers, ave-
nues, streets and roads of said District. To
secure hereafter permanent and proper inn
pIovements when and where needed, and to
secure the passage of q law by Congress re-
CURING All contracts for improvements TO
be let TO the lowest responsible bidder, after
public advertisement, with sufficient bonds
and ample security.
Filth. And generally to accomplish, In the
interest OF the citizens Of said District, the
by w. w. Corcoran and Others"
DISGRACE, DEsKRrIoN, AND SUICIDE
A young woman was found unconscious 81
Marcy and De Kalb avenues, Brooklyn,
last evening In the hospital 1t was ascer-
recovered consciousness enough to say that
her name was Katy Lee, and her home Chi
cago. She had been induced to forsake her
home with her lover, and he had taken her
to Brooklyn and had deserted her. She was
out OF money and In disgrace, and receiving
no answer to her letters home, and having
to ssr ss nops
recovery.-GM Y. Sun, 9Th.
PARsoN GLENDENIN's TRouBLEs.-At
the session OF the Peoria I'LL Presbytery
last week, Rev. John 8. Glendenin, whose
ns
where he has been preaching for some time,
was ordered to dissolve its relations with
him. There has been q protest entered
against the action of the board, and it is
thought that, in addition, the church at
Henry will refuse to obey the orders of the
Presbytery.
RATS NEARLY SINK SHIP.-The bark
Skevry we're arrived at New York Saturday
from Melbourne, Australia, with articles for
the Centennial. On the voyage the ship
sprung q leak, IL Is supposed from the work
OF rats. The leak was stopped with q sail,
and 1t took two days to pump the water out
Of the ship.
COMPROMISE OF AN EMBEzZLEMENT
CAsE.-Arminius III. Guden, glass manu-
facturer, WHO disappeared some time
sir &c Immediately after drawing from bank
81 150 belonging to the firm, has made q
settlement with Alphonse Peltier, with
whom he was associated, and has been re-
leased from custody.-[M y Commercial, 9Th.
EXPORTING DRY GooDs.-A small ship
ment Of dry goods has been made to New
Zealand, and the FAN River manufacturers,
encourage by the results OF the visit of Mr..
HatHaW4y to Eur0n9 abOUk tn send n