Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-04-25
MANY DISTRICT MEASURES.

MANY DISTRICT MEASURES,
Matters Considered by the District
Committees Today.
sEvKyrY-FIvH THOUSAND DOLLARS ron orAIs'
REFoRM scHooIl-rHE BILL TO PROVIDE NED
IcAL coLLEoEs WITH sUBJKcrs-RAJLRoAp
LEGISLATION on TIE SENATE SIDE.
The House District committee, at their regu-
lar meeting today, considered number Of the
bills on their docket and finally disposed Of
Ave. Adverse reports were authorized on the
bills fer the relief of Mary G. Henderson and
Jacob O'Brien.
THE ANTI-aRAvE-RoBBINo BILL
A favorable report was authorized on the bill
for the promotion Of anatomical science and to
prevent the dissertation Of graves in
the District Of Columbia. This bill provides
that any public officer having charge over any
hospital prison, aims house, Jail, morgue or
asylum within the District may, with the aP-
prevail of the health officer deliver to the duly
District the bodies Of such deceased persons a.
are required to be buried at the public expense.
the bodies to be distributed among the several
colleges equitably. the number assigned to
each being proportional TO that OF its Students
II the deceased person, however. during
his last illness expressed wish to be buried.
or If within forty-eight hours q relative or
friend OF the deceased expressed such wish,
or if the dead person was a stranger or trav-
eler who suddenly died, the body shall not be
delivered. but shall be buried.
Parties authorized to receive such dead
bodies shall be used for the promotion OF
anatomical and surgical knowledge. II such
bodies be used for other purposes or re-
moved from the District, or II made the
subject OF any manner Of traffic, or II bodies
be removed from places in which they
have been buried. the person found
guilty Of such offenses shall be imprisoned for
term not less than two nor more than three
years at hard labor in the District Jail.
THE JENNINGS BRIDGE.
The committee also authorized favorable
report on the bill appropriating the sum OF
$50, 900 for a stone or iron bridge across the
Eastern Branch on the Bennings road in place
of the present structure.
GIRLS REFORM SCHOOL.
The bill for the purchase Of q site and erec-
ton of buildings for the girls reform school OF
the District Of Columbia was amended and
will also be favorably reported. The
amendments strike out the second
and third sections of the bill, providing for q
complex division of the appropriation, and
leave the bill with only the first section. This
section, too. is amended so as to provide for
an appropriation of S75, 600 instead Of $50, 600.
The bill reported, therefore, simply pro-
vides that the sum of $4,000 be appro-
priated out of any moneys In the
Treasury for the purpose of enabling the Com
missioners to purchase site and erect and
furnish buildings for the girls reform school
of the District of Columbia.
THE LEXINGTON RAILROAD.
The House yesterday concurred in the Senate
amendment to the bill amending the charter
of the lexington and Soldiers Home
Railroad Company. The amendment provides
that the authority Of this company by this act
or any other act to erect or use overhead wires
in its operations within the city Of Washington
shall absolutely cease on the LIST day of July,
1898. The bill now goes to the President.
THE SAM STRONG CASE.
When the railroad arguments we're over the
committee ordered adverse reports on the bill
and Senate resolution providing for settle
ment of the question at issue between Samuel
Strong and the District of Columbia.
TO PROTECT HOTEL KEEPERS.
Senator Platt's bill for the better protection
of hotel keepers, inn keepers, lodging house
keepers and boarding house keepers in the
District was then taken up, and after it had
been amended so as to conform to the New
York law on that subject it was ordered to BIO
favorably reported by Senator Higgins.
PROSPECT HILL CEMETERY
A favorable report was also authorized on the
Faulkner bill to amend the charter of Prospect
Hill Cemetery so as to authorize the cemetery
trustees to sell all that portion of the land
owned by the company lying on the west side
of the east line of North Capitol street extended
thrn,, rrh fhn will
be incorporated in the District appropriation
bi by the conferees on that measure.
The members of the committee present at
today's meeting were Senators ingalls,, Far
WELL Mcmillan, Higgins, Harris, Vance, Faux
ner and Barbour.
FOR PURCHASE OF A LOT.
Mr.. Quay in the Senate today introduced a
bill providing for the purchase of LOT
10, in square 6S3, in this city, lying
on the west side of Delaware avenue
between c and d streets northeast and adjoin-
erty Of the United States The lot to
be purchased contains 1920 square
feet and S20,842 is appropriated
for its purchase. The ground is then to be
used for the erection OF suitable building for
general storage purposes connected with the
Capitol.
The Senate District Committee.
the time and attention of the Senate Distric,
committee today. For more than an hour eight
members of the committee listened TO argu.
ment by ex-senator Sewell and Senator
Mcpherson in favor of granting to the company
all the privileges and facilities it claims to be
necessary.
The Senator and ex-senator insisted that
more tracks and greater terminal facilities
we're absolutely necessary. not perhaps, to the
people of the city of Washington but to the
travelling public and business interests of the
country generally. incidentally Mr.. Sewell
argued for more congressional consideration
for the Baltimore and Ohio Company. That
corporation was almost as badly crowded, he
said, as the Baltimore and Potomac.
The committee had very little to say about
the bill either during the hearing or afterward.
A subcommittee. composed Of Senators McMil-
Ian, Higgins and Vance has been wrestling
with the subject for some time, and on Monday
or Tuesday they will go over the railroad prop
erty with some Of the companys officers. Next
Friday there will be another meeting of the DIS
trict committee. and them it lis said the subcom
mittee will make favorable report on the bill
favored by the company, and the measure may
be Immediately reported to the Senate, for the
company pleads great and increasing necessity.
The bill which it is stated will be reported
gives the District Commissioners power, when
ever they consider it public benefit to grant
the company permission to lay, maintain and
use side tracks from the lines to any real estate
abutting on the streets or avenues &C.
cupied by the companys tracks. The
company is empowered to acquire any one
or more OF the squares of ground south Of the
Baltimore and Potomac line and north Of i
street and north of the Eastern Branch and