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committee has had this matter under conaoera.


In this matter would have read the provisions OF
the Dill, ana by the next day they would nave
given an the consideration to 1t that they would
ever give. He thought two weeks time was sum-
Gent.
OPPOSED TO ''RArIRoAprSa, IT rHRoraH.
Mr.. oyster thought the minority report should
90 to the local associations with the majority re-
port whats the necessity" he assed, ''of rail-
reading this through tonight? So far as am
vote tonight"
"Ths chair has no doubt OF IT. said Mr.. W. C.
Dodge, who was temporarily In the chair.
MI oyster continued. however. that the con-
stituency he represented had night to sufficient
time for the consideration OF this matter.
MI. Hovey suggested that at the meeting two
weeks hence, II members wanted further time, It
could be granted. The select committee, he said,
the Committee OF One Hundred, but, at the same
De put on and delayed 50 there could &c no action
at all upon It,
Mr.. $. T. Suit asked what was to become OF the
minority report He insisted that both reports
should go before the local associations
The question was taken on Mt Mitchells mo-
ton to postpone until May, and It was lost. A
motion OF MI. Fenwick to postpone for four weeks
Before Mr.. Fendalrs motion to take up the re-
port Ior action two weeks hence was put IL was
agreed that MT: Wilson should have permission to
print and distribute his minority report.
MI Wilson stated that he would have his report
prepared and printed as soon as possible
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THE wooDLEY LANE BRIDGE.
Chairman Fendall had the temporary secretary,
Mr.. I. Stooo Farrow, read the letter from Repre-
sentative Brewer, OF the House District committee
inviting members OF the committee to appear be-
fore the District committee and urge their objec-
tons TO the Wo0dley Lane bridge bid passed yes
terday by the House, and the correspondence that
had followed. This was the bill against which
resolution was adopted at the last meeting OF the
Committee OF One hundred.
MIR. Lehman said he was the member OF the CON-
mittee who had spoken OF the bill as job OF the
nrst water. He SAID t after due deliberation, and
he thought the vote OF the committee showed they
were all OF the same opinion. only two or three
years ago there were beyond the bridge barren
Real estate syndcates bought 1t up at an advanced
price or $3.50 or $500. These syndicaues had gone
on and beautined the region, and so far as they
could profit by their enterprise he had no word TO
say. II these syndcates did not have tins land on
the market at from 5000 TO $4,000 an acre they
ne u wou l,i q, nave nearu oI .ne pridge Dli-
tain persons asked Congress for an appropriation
OF 81, 900 for bridge. not because there was need
Oh IL, but IL would help the sale OF the property
The bill suOuld be entilIed a bill TO enable this
syndicate 70 put upon the pubic this land al an
advanced price.
Mr.. MOrsen said he did not think the House
committee had treated the Committee or one
Hundred fairy. Tue present bridge, ue insisted
was sound structure, as stated in the resolution
lie denied that the bridge was ia dilapidated
condition. or that IL was TOO narrow for Use. IL
was Wen adaptei TO an obscure country road such
as that. he hai visited The spot and all that he
saw beyond The bridge was numberlesS 1ocks or
crows except just little way from the bridge
We're TWO pillars or posts looking ike the entrance
To Il cemetery.
Mr. DE Land offered a resolution, which was re-
lerrei, approving the recommendations or the
Commissioner, to establish swimming schools.
recommending LnaL the different associations shall
annually EJECT their deieg ateS and alternate, 10
the representative Committee or One Hundred at
their nrsL meeting In September.
THE COUNTY AND THE CITY.
Mr.. Dodge offered resolution as he said, at the
request Ok an outside party, providing for CON-
mittee OF three TO Cooperate With a similar CON-
mittee to be appointed on behalf OF the citizens or
the county In The preparation or Dill 10 he sub
mlJted TO Congress, To provide. FIRST, statement
or account by the DiSLn authorities between
the cOuaty and the cities or Washington and
Georgetown, showing the amount OF taxes ahd
other revenues derived from each, and also the
amount expended in the county and The cities
respectively since 1871; and second, providing
That hereafter the revenu S OF the District shau
be divided between the county and The cities In
proportion 10 the amount paid by each respect
lively, separate accounts being kept bOtn as ~ the
receipts and expenditures In each.
The chair announced as The executive commit
tee 10 present TO Congress the report adopted re-
speeding the location VI the city postOice the FOL
lowlng: Messrs Mu.leJL Dean, Gardner. Dawson,
Dodge, Larner, j. o. W.lson, Blscoe, ana Leetch.
A Missing Girl Found.
HER MOTHER, A MARYLAND SCHOOL TEACHER, COMES
TO THIS CITY TO LOOK FOR HER, AND THE POLICE
FIND HER IN HOUSE OF PROSTITUTION.
Detectives Ran and Horne last night took from
house OF ili-fame on 18th street a pretty girl
seventeen years old and turned her over to
her mother. The girl is the daughter of a school
teacher who lives in Maryland not far from Balti-
more city. Three weeks ago she left the home OF
her parents to attend a theater In Bait more with
young man. After the performance Was over
she was Induced TO partake OF an o. ster supper IL
pSllh a. m trhr a M
the couple faced the storm To go home the girls
male companion suggested that the weather was
100 bad for them TO return home that night ana
suggested that they stop at hotel over MI ht and
return home IN the morning. Sac agreed, and they
.ssed the night at a hotel The next morning.
Instead OF returning home, they came 10 TINS city,
where she spent a night with one OF her former
schOolmates Next morning sac again met her
male companion. and they left for Richmond.
Meanwhile the girls parents were unable 10 learn
anything OF Lne.r missing daughter.
SEARCHING FOR THE MISSING Girl.
Baltimore was searched by the officers, but no
trace OF her could be found. After remaining In
Richmond about two weeks the girl was abandoned
by her companion. and she returned TO this city.
finally rang the front door-bell at house OF prosti-
IuLion. sue represented tn.t she was an orphan
from Virginia; that she was twenty-rour years old
and had been a school teacher. She was received
as an Inmate OF the house, and was there about a
week. Yesterday the girls mother visited The
house OF her daughters former scnoolmaJe here,
there shortly after her dis ppearance from home.
The mother then sou hit the aid OF the police and
Detectives Raff and Horne were consulted.
THE LOST FOUND.
The mother intended TO return home last even
Ing but the officers assured her that II her daugh-
ter was in this city they would find her before
midnight She Diet rnined TO remain, and, about
& O'Clock In the evening, the officers learned In
what house the girl was living. She was called
down stars, and, when informed That she was TO
return nome, tainted, and in falling hurt her
head Three times in succession she tainted. The
officers then escorted her to the nrSt prec net sta
ton, where she remained until her mother ar
rived. Then there WAS an affecting scene The
mother did not upbraid her child, but was glad 10
know she Was alive and tenderiy embraced her.
TuiS morning they returned home together.
THE LAW IN THE CASE.
No arrests were made In the case, because the
girl looks much older than she really is and On
count OF the story she told about her age at the
house OF ill-fame section OF the act OF February
IL 1855 provides: "rhat any srson who shall en-
tce ducoy place, take, or receive any female child
under tue aye OF eighteen years into any house OF
ill.fame or diS0rderly house, for the purpose or
prosJItutiOn or any person who having ia his Gus
tody or control such cnd shall dispose OF II to be
so received to be received In or for any obscene
Indecent, or immoral purpose exhibition, or prac-
tice, shall be deemed guilty OF amSdeneanor, and.
ment by a fine OF not more than 81 600 or by i'm
prlsonmenI Tor term not exceeding ten years, or
both"
DIXEy AT LAST CoMING.-Henry F. Dixey is at
last about to make W aShlngtOn visit, and II Is
SAFE 10 say that his coming will arouse livelief
tcipations OF pleasure than would That OF almost
any otuer American actor, serious or comic.
"AdoniSr Will apper at Albaughs next week, and
the sale OF seats begins at the box ONCE to-mor-