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they would have the right to acquire under the
acts of Congress2

! consider is whether the Pennsylyania railroat
should not be compelled 10 buy its way int
this city instead Of coming in over public prop
erty to the hindrance Of the people Of this cit!
| the depot where it is at present located thinl
| We ought at least to compel this railroad t.
| bridge over the tracks in the mall in such ,
way that those who have to drive over it sill
not have their horses frightened, and that PEG
| pie who want to go either by themselves O,
with their families into these public ground
shall not have the fear of being run over by
| this railroad. There are many places in THU
Union where the railroads 20 into the heart Of
the city; but there is always n provision to pro-
teqt the public and can conceive of no good
reason that can be assigned by any one why a
railroad like the Pennsylvania railroad should
not buy its why into the city Of Warrington al
other railroads are compelled to do under like
circumstances in other cities.
PERTINENT QUERY.
1--WE have lately appropriated. think,
goo. coo for the purchase of e site for . public
post Office. That 5000 OOO has been taken out
Of the money Of the United States and paid OF
will be paid, to private owners Of property 90
that public building may be constructed for
the accommodation of the people Of this city.
l believe 1t Is proper and wise expenditure;
but want to submit to gentlemen upon this
floor whether We can justify ourselves to our
own conSclences or to our constituents, when
from private owners. and at the same time per-
init the Pennsyivania railroad which is as
wealthy as any other organization in the United
States. and which. as We know. IL perfectly
able to buy it's way, whether we shall permit
them to occupy public ground of this city
which II worth at least IA much as that which
We have paid for city post office. and to keep
it for twenty years without paying any tax for
it. without paying a dime Of rent for it, and
when a bill is up to give them the additional
facilities they want, l ask whether we shall re-
fuse tn make some provision by which the peo-
pie shall get some return for the property they
have occupied and which belongs to the peo-
ple?"
AS TO TAXES.
A discussion then took place az to whether
the company paid taxes on the property which
it occupied. Mr. Atkinson claimed the CON-
pany paid $4,000 year taxes On the property
and Improvements
Mr.. Hemphill said he was informed that
this was on the building.
TURNED OVER BODY AND SOUL TO CORPORATION.
In regard to the amendment introduced in
the bill by the conference committee in regard
to nothing in the bill confirming any right OF
the company to the present occupation of tho
null Mr.. Hemphill said:
MY idea is that this provision is absolutely
futile and useless. and it looks as if it were
brought into the House in order to persuade
members to give up what we have been con-
tending for as against this railroad, and to
adopt something in the nature of q provision
with reference to this station down here which
Is absolutely superfluOus and noneffectual. But,
l repeat. if it is Of any use, then the same pro-
vision ought to be made with reference TO the
other public property which is Likewise occu-
pied by this railroad.
And now, Mr.. Speaker, all I have to say is
this: II the House will vote down this confer
rpnOrt W nj chp hat
not turned ourselves over body and soul tn a
corporation, and it will show also that the
House is disposed to insist upon some PROPOSE
ton that will bring this question to q final set
tiement. And, in addition to that. We ought to
at least give notice to the company that we ex-
Pect some return for the public property that
they have SO long occupied. How much time
have Iremaining2''
THE COMMISSION PROPOSITION.
Mr.. Milliken closed the debate by remarking:
IF this railroad company today while this
question is before Congress and while they are
asking to be granted and confirmed in rights
which do not now exist-if they today object
now to this commission will they not object to
1t still more strenuously after they have got all
they want2 If we cannot today in this House,
while this question Is open, create y commits
sion to take into consideration the rights of the
people in connection with the rights of this
railroad in the District of Columbia, then when
hereafter the proposition. which my friend
from Pennsylvania Mr.. Atkinson) has 80 much
at heart. to create a general commission to con-
slider all these railroad questions in relation to
the District comes up, shall we not find the
Pennsylvania railroad and the Baltimore and
Ohio railro~. and all the railroads op-
posing that proposition? II We cannot
today. in consideration of the great
advantages which this railroad Is to receive
from this bill if 1t shall pass-if we cannot now
get this commission upon the bill does anybody
here hope that we can hereafter pass a bill pro-
wiling for such a commission when we shall
have all the railroads opposing it2'
THE VOTE IN DErkIL.
The vote wac then taken on agreeing TO the
conference report, and the report was adopted
yeas III, nays SO. as follows: Adams, Allen,
Mich, Atkinson, Pa, Baker. Banks, Bartine,
Belden. Belknap; Bergen, Bggss. Bingham,
Buchanan. n. j., Buckalew. Burrows, Bynum,
Caldwell, Gambler, Ga, Gambler, Mass, Cannon,
Carlton, Caswell Catchings. Cheatham, Goth
ran, Craig. Grain, Crisp, Culberson, Tex, Gull
bertson, Pa. Cutcheon. Dalzell Darlington,
Dorsey, Dunnell, Ewart, Farquhar, Flower,
Gibson, Goodnight, Grimes, Hansbrough, Har-
Hona Henderson G.. Hs.ch nsnaer Kim,
sey, Laidlaw, Langston, Lee, Lewis, Mansur,
Mason, McAdoo, McCreary, McKenna. Mel inley,
MCuiAliH, Muts, uOlitt, montgomery, MOrey,
Morse, Mudd, Mutchler, Oates. ODonneil,
OFerrall. ONeil, Mass, ONeill. Pa, Osborne
Owens. Ohio, Payne, Payson, Perkins, Perry,
Pindar, Post, Pugsley, Quackenbush, Ray, Rey-
burn. Richardson, Rife, ROwell, Rusk. Sanford.
Scranton, Scull, Sherman Smith, ILL.,, smith, W..
Va. Smyser, Stewart. Tex. Stone, KY, Stone,
Pa. Struble, Taylor, Ill. Townsend, Colo, Town
send, Pa, Van Schaick, Vaux, Wade, Wallace,
NY, Wheeler, Mich, Whitelaw, Wike, Wilkin-
son, Wright, Yardley.
Mays Abbott, Allen, Miss, Blanchard, Booth
man, Brickner, Brookshire, Brewer, Buchanan,
Va. Burton, Cheadle. Chapman. Clements,
Clunie, Cobb, Coleman Connell, Cooper Ind,
Covert, Dickerson, Dingley, Dolliver, Ed
munds. Enloe, Finley, Fithian. Flick, Fowler,
Gest, Grout, Hare, Haugen, Hemphill. Herbert,
Hermann, Hill, Holman, Hooker Houk, Kelley,
Kennedy KilgOre, Lacey, La Toilette, Lane,
Lanham, Laws, Lind, Lodge, Martin, Ind,
Martin, Tex. Mccarthy, Mcclellan. McComas,
McRae Milliken, Moore, NH, O'Neall Ind,
Cultivate, Paynter, Pennington, Pierce, Quinn,
Reed. Iowa, Rogers, Sawyer, Savers, Seney,
Shively, Simonds, Spinola, Spooner, Springer,
Stewart, W., Stivcrs, StOckdale, sweeney,
j. ID. Taylor, E. Is. Taylor, Thomas, Tillman,
Tracey. Turner, Ga, Turner, Kan, Vandever,
Washington. Wheeler, Ala, Williams, Ohio,
Wilson, Wash.
The POlicemen's Ball.
The ball, given last night at the National
Rifles Armory by the police officers Of the sixth
precinct was a success and the amount realized
will pay for fitting the gymnasium at the sta
ton in good style. The officers on the several