Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-02
THE DISTRICT IN CONGRESS.
The Appropriation Bill win Soon BE Ready
for Report.

COMMISSIONER DOUGLASS AND OTHERS BEFORE
THE sUBcoNNIrTEE TO-DAY - THE TREASURY
ESTIMATES WILL PRoBABLY Ri CLOSELY FOL
LOWED BY OTHER BILLS OF DISTRICT INTEREST.
Discussing estimate items and such pleasant
little things is not very exciting business, but
all the morning the subcommittee Of the House
appropriations committee in charge Of the
District of Columbia appropriation bill sat
around table and discussed the Dis
trict estimates. Commissioner Douglass
expressed his views and representa-
tives of the engineer force ex-
pressed their views, and the result altogether
was cheerful little symposium in which dol
lars and cents, charities and streets, sewers and
electric lights constituted the program. Last
week the subcommittee held two meetings and
discussed the BILL and with the long conference
today the committee is something over half
way through the estimates. Tomorrow the
good work will be continued and in all prob
ability by adjournment tomorrow the Com
missioners will have been pumped dry.
SHOULD BE REPORTED THIS WEEK.
The committee will then give n couple Of
days to public hearing on the bill, after which
the final arrangements will be perfected rap
idly and the bill should be reported either the
last part of this week or the first part of next.
The work of the committee il not vet in such
shape as to judge how closely the estimates will
be followed in the reported bill. The treasury
estimates are nearly precisely the same as the
Commissioners estimates and in all probable
ity the reported bill will follow very closely the
treasury estimates. Commissioner Douglass
said to a STAR reporter today that the estimates
had been shaved down to the lowest possible
figure and that in his opinion the bill would
follow very closely on the estimates.
WHAT Mr.. N coNAs SAYS.
No one on the committee or in Congress
takes more interest in the District than does
Mr.. McComas. He said today that the bill was
advancing rapidly and would soon be reported.
He was not prepared at present to say as TO
how closely the estimates would be followed.
The committee today discussed the estimates
on streets and roads.
BILLS OF DISTRICT INTEREST.
There are large number Of bills on the calen-
dar Of the House which are Of District interest,
having been reported by the committee on the
District. Among these are bills providing for
a girls reform school, for a system of highways
outside the city limits authorizing the appoint
ment of a sanitary engineer. authorizing sur
vey and plan for a bridge across the Eastern
branch at South Capitol street, incorporating
the Georgetown and Arlington Railway Com
pany, creating the Office of inspector of
hay. straw, grain, &c. regulating steam
engineering, Incorporating the Crosstown rail-
way. incorporating the District of Columbia
Suburban Railway Company, regulating the
sale of tickets on street railways authorizing
the construction of the Potomac River railroad,
incorporating the Columbia Central Railway
Company, incorporating the Trans-Anacostia
railway, incorporating the Washington and
Benning Railway Company, to improve car
service on l4th street. for the regulation OF
dentistry in the city, amending the charter of
the Anacostia and Potomac Railway Company.
incorporating the Washington and Highland
brokers. to punish the carrying of deadly
weapons.