Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-09
The District in Congress.

UNION DEPOT QUESTION.
The bills to-day introduced in the Senate to
define the routes of steam railroads in the city
will in all probability reopen the controversy
in regard to the proper routes and the best 10
cation for union MO =, depot which was
route, and all OF them will probably come up
The to 4a Of
tracks there, while the people of the
northwest section want to get rid of the
for union depot near the Navy Yard, and
another for q union depot in certain squares
west Of 7th street stree One Proposition Was to
and another was to require the road
Branch The citizens interested will again be
given q hearing, and it is likely that the rail-
road companies will also want to be heard.
THE CABLE ELECTRIC RAILROAD COMPANY.
Mr.. ingalls, to-day introduced in the Senate
bill to incorporate the Washington Cable Elec-
Charles PaysOn, James %. Fitch, Charles j. Bell
William w. Dudley, j. H. Button, o. 6. Staples
tors, and presenting a route embracing many
of the streets of the city. Referred to the Dis
trict committee.
STEAM RAILROADS IN THE CITY.
/ In the Senate to-day Mr.. ingalls, introduced
the BILL which was originally recommended by
the Commissioners and was before the last
Congress to regulate entrance and prescribe the
routes of steam railroads in the city. This bill
requires the tracks to be fenced in and auto
matte gates to be erected at each crossing and
it locates the Baltimore and Ohio depot in
square 6S1, near where the present depot is.
Mr.. Vance also introduced a bill on the same
subject. 1t is substantially the bill introduced
by Mr.. Morrill, in the last Congress, and requires
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to reach the
southern part of the city by going around via
the Eastern Branch, and locates a union depot
in the southern section of Washington.
THE NEW LIBRARY BILL.
Representative Singleton has arranged with
Mr.. Rogers, of Arkansas, to introduce the bill
to construct building for the library of Con-
This arrangement will put the bill among
the first on the calendar, the stale of
Singleton waited for Mississippi to be called,
measures. The senate bill. as passed Inst
and MIR. Singleton expects 1t to pass without
amendments that will operate against 1t. This
bill provides that not more than $500. 600 shall
be spent for the purchase of site, and that the
building shall be erected on one OF the squares
Immediately east of the Capitol The fact that
the building, it is thought, will insure its con-
Senator Morrill, has reintroduced the bill to
construct building for the Congressional
east Of the Capitol grounds: AS the Presi:
of shs bill feel
more hopeful than ever Of its success. There is
no difficulty in the Senate as 1t has passed that
body several times.
Capitol Topics.
TO PROTECT HOME MANUFACTURES.
The bill introduced by Senator Platt to-day,
"to prevent frauds on American manufac-
tures," provides that no article of foreign man.
.ufacture shall be admitted at any custom house
of the United States when such article or the
box package containing 1t, Is SO stamped.
marked, branded or labeled as to represent
that such article was manufactured in the
United States.
PAGES, ETC, APPOINTED.
The following pages in the House were ap-
pointed this morning: James F. English, Ly-
man S. Gibbs, r. F. Moses, Frank F. Trenholm,
F. v. Hale, F: B; German, Richard Rhea, H: E.
been appointed folder.
Battle McCardle, c. c. Cumberland and w. E.
House. The. Crandali has been appointed a
page in the folding room. J. a. Johns has been
appointed folder and G. H. Mills a messenger.
THE ABSENT SENATORS
are Messrs. Jones and Fair, of Nevada; Mr..
Miller, of California; Mr.. Bowen, of Colorado,
and Mr. Jones, Of Florida. Senator Miller tele-
graphed that he would start last Monday from
San Francisco for Washington. Senator-elect
Mitchell is en- route to Washington.
HIS SENTIMENTS
A press dispatch quotes Senator Sherman
having written to T. L. Ferris of Dakota, as
follows: 81 am in receipt of yours of November
25. My attention had already been called to
the extraordinary conduct of Commissioner
Sparks before its receipt. We shall certainly
give his case a fair consideration. The tendency
will be to confirm appointments, the result of
resignation, or expiration of term. The eastern
press is full Of just such complaints as made by
you, and will no doubt receive the serious con-
sideration of the Senate" Being asked about
the letter to-day Mr.. Sherman said that while
he did not recall the fact of having written it,
the sentiments expressed were his and no doubt
he wrote the letter.
Changes i'm the Offices.
The Secretary of the Treasury has appointed
James NJ. Leach, jr., of North Carolina, to be
chief of a division in the registers office.
Henry H. Gassaway, who was dismissed from
his position as assistant chief of the mercantile
marine division in the Treasury because Of
alleged rudeness, has been appointed 81, 200