Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-10
The District in Congress-,
DISTRICT GOVERNMENT BILL.

committee will be held to morrow for cOnsid-
Grafton of the bill recently passed by the House
PrOVldlng new form of government for the
DlS!rlct OF Columbia. At the regular meeting
OF the committee to be held next Monday, it is
expected that consideration of the bill will be
completed and in amended form it will be re
ported TO the Senate. Senator Dorsey is Of
the thte, opinion that the committee will amend the
Dlll IN at least two important particulars
Inc chlet amendment, he believes, will be the
entlfe abolition of that section which pro-
Dldes LOT, The election of council to act in
conjunction with the District Commissioners.
IL Is not thought by majority of the mem
Ders OF the Senate committee tnat suffrage
even TO the extent of electing members of a
CITY council is desirable. The committee will
also amend the House bill in respect to the
manner provided therein for the selection of
District Commissioners by the houses OF Con-
greSS.
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT
today agreed to draft bill providing for the
erection of wall around the new District Jail,
and to construct workshops, the object being
to keep our own criminals at work here in
stead of sending them to Albany.
The committee will also draft bill to legal
iae tne building m regulations for the District
prescribed by the District Commissioners.
Since it has become known that Mr.. Clymer
OF pennsylvania, has the casting vote in the
matter OF Mrs: Kate Chase Sprague's bill for
reduction OF the assessment on the Edge
wood estate, he has been worried sick by the
trends OF the lady TO see to it that he votes for
the bill.
SEWERAGE OF WASHINGTON AND GEORGE
TOWN, ETC.
Mr. Dorsey presented in the Senate today
petition from Peter f. Bacon, j. b. Bryan &
Bro, j. w. Kennedy & Co., and others, re-
queStng the appointment of a commission to
report plan for the improvement OF the drain
age and sewerage for the cities of Washington
and Georgetown. Accompanying the petition
is a plan for improving the Potomac river
drainage and sewerage for this city, and OBJ
jectiOnS to the scheme of the board of survey
OF lsI2 The document introduced by Senator
Dorsey was prepared by Mr.. SeverSOn. He
claims that the report of the board of survey
was negIgently prepared, and abOundS in
errors. The petitioners believe that for the B
street sewer much larger duct must be built
to extend from the foot OF 18th street through
the James creek canal to the Eastern branch
near the arsenal; the flow then to be directed
to the main channel of the Potomac. The duct
must be so arranged that the sewerage of a
large quantity of tide water may flow through
its entire length in but one direction. The
ma in channel of the Potomac must be opened
and established close along the Washington
side of the river. The line on which it is pro
posed TO reopen the main channel on the
as that reported in 1857 by Alfred l..
Rives, a civil engineer. His plan was
Tor breakWater. giving narrow deep
ehinn channel = Tor three quarters OF mile
the opening reserved for the channel in the
Long Bridge: The estimated cost OF drcdg-
ing cut 100 feet wide, II feet deep at low
water along the Washington side of the river
from Easby,S point to the arsenal, and back
ing Tor bulk head and a breakwater to eX-
tend $500 feet eastward from Anaostian
Island, is 100000. The work can be ac-
cOmpllshed i'll one year. Petitioners want
Congress to authorize experiments to deter
mine how fast sewage will flow down the
Potomac.
Severson proposes an intersecting sewer
from the mouth of Rock Greek along the line
OF the old canal valley to the James creek
canal, through which to draw the waste water
OF Rock Greek and large quantity of tide
water TO be admitted at the foot of 18th street
together with the Intercepted sewage, all to
How III one direction eastward, to and through
me canal to the river below the arsenal. The
tides VIII regulate the flow OF the water into
The basin from which the tide water is to be
carried through the sewer. Nearly all the
other sewers will flow into this Intervening
sewer
TIE ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY
Mr.. Thurman yesterday introduced bill in
The Senate to incorporate the National Eiec-
tlic Light Company of the District of Column
Ola, and Tor other purposes. 1t names as in
cOrpOratOrS John D. Defrees joseph III. Wig.
gin, A. II. ByingtOn, Edwin H. Hatch, and
Nm. G. Dodge. The capital stock is to be
Sl,OOOOOQ, in shares of 800 each. Caleb c. viii
and VIM. C. Dodge are named as directors un-
I'll the first regular election. The company is
authorized to manufacture the LOngwOrth
electric candle or other and necessary appli-
anceS for producing electric light for the pur-
pose Of lighting Washington and Georgetown.
wires to make proper electrical connection.
After two years. from the OriginatiOn of the
company, the price of producing ILLUMINATING
power shall not exceed $3.50 per 700 cubic feet