Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-12-06
THE DISTRICT IN CONGRESS.

BIG TELESCOPE FOR THE NATIONAL oBsERvA.
TORY.
Representative Butler, Of Tennessee, intro
duced a bill in the House yesterday appro-
priating S1,000, 900 for the construction and
erection, at the national observatory in Wash
ington, of a sixty-inch telescope.
PROTECTION FOR GREENoUaH's WASHINGTON.
The limited quantity of clothing on the
Washington statue on the east front of the
capitol having proven insufficient to protect
the figure from injury by changeable climate,
Architect Clark has decided to cover the statue
during the winter with a wooden structure
The building is now being erected. Light will
be admitted through two large skylights, one
each on the north and south sides. The statue
has suffered considerably from the inclemen-
cies of the weather and is badly cracked and
Clipped in a number of places.
THE ANACosTIA AND POTOMAC RIVER RAILROAD
Senator Faulkner to-day introduced bill to
amend the act giving the approval and sanction
OF Congress to the route and termini of the
Anacostia and Potomac river railroad. The
proposed amendment authorizes the company
to lay tracks and run cars from the intersec-
tion OF its tracks on NJ street south with 1lth
street east; along 1lth street to its tracks on G
street south. The time for the completion of
the tracks is extended one year. The pattern
of the rail used in the tracks is to be approved
by the District Commissioners, and all rails
are to be laid on level with the surface Of the
street.
ANOTHER PROPOSED BRIDGE ACROSS THE EAST
ERN BRANCH.
A bin was introduced to-day by Senator
Faulkner to authorize the construction Of a
bridge across the Eastern branch of the Poto-
mac from the foot of South Capitol street. An
appropriation of $1,000 is asked for with which
to make such Investigations and surveys as the
Secretary of War deems necessary. The bridge
and its approaches are to cost 100000.
THE GEORGETOWN AND TENLEYTowN RAILROAD
Senator Faulkner this morning introduced q
bill to amend the act incorporating the George
town and Tenleytown railway company. The
amendment gives the company the right to
lay its tracks in the center of the Tenleytown
road. The act which it is proposed to amend
reads: but wholly outside of the limits of said
road and along the side of the said road"
THE SENATE DISTRICT COMMITTEE
will meet tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
The committee calendar is being prepared by
Mr.. Boswell, the committees clerk, and a regu-
lar order Of business will be arranged before
the committee adjourns at noon.
BILL TO ESTABLISH NATIONAL LPATHo-BIoLoaICAL
LABORATORY.
bill to establish a national ARCHAEOLOGICAL
laboratory in the District of Columbia was in
troduced to-day by Senator Henderson. The
bill states THAT for the purpose of the better
protection to the health of the people Of the
United States from the ravages Of contagious,
infectious and malarial diseases, and for the
preservation and protection Of the great live
stock interests of the country from the deci-
mating devastations of pestiferous diseases Of
a similar nature, and for the more complete
elucidation of the relation existing between
many diseases of our domestic animals and
the life and health Of human beings
whose business calls them into intimate
relations with them, and of the welfare
Of the public as consumers of animal food or
animal products, there shall be established at
Washington, in the District of Columbia, and
the United States of America, a laboratory for
the purpose of making continuous and scien-
tifc study into the causes and nature Of the
classes of disease herein mentioned, and Of all
subjects connected Herewith, bearing either
upon the public health or animal economics of
the country, and that said laboratory be known
as the archaeological laboratory Of the United
States of America"
The surgeon-general Of the marine hospital
service is to have supervision and control of
the laboratory, and he is to be assisted by two
directors, one of whom shall be known as the
director of the humano-pathO-biolo insti-
tute and the other as the director of the ZOO
archaeological institute. Other officers are
also provided for. An appropriation of $3.50, 900
is asked for the purchase of a site and the erec-
ton of the necessary buildings. The bill was
referred to the committee on agriculture and
forestry.