The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-06
THE DISTRICT IN CONGRESS.


1TOPObcu LuWb EdSOThDly hCteu OpOn
BY the COMMITTEES.
The Senate committee met to-day. Pres
ent, Chairman Ingalls, and Messrs
SpOoner, Mcmillan, Higgins, Harris,
Faulkner and Barbour.
BY instruction of the committee the fol-
lowing bills were reported back to the
Senate: By Mr.. Ingalls,, House bill author
izing the Commissioners to grant to the
Veteran Volunteer Fircmen's Association
the use of the former engine house at
Nineteenth and II streets as place of
meeting and for the storage of their appa-
ratus.
BY Mr.. Ingalls,, the bill authorizing the
Washington and Cumberland Railroad to
extend its road into the District. The bill
is amended to make the terminus of the
road on Rock Creek.
BY Mr.. Higgins, favorably without
amendment, the House bill authorizing
sale of title of United States in lot three
in square south of square 800 to Henry
NJ. Baker and John Jay Sanborn of this
city, the Secretary of the Interior to fix
the price.
the Rock Creek Railway Company was re-
ferred to Mr.. Mcmillan as sub-commit-
tee.
The Senate bill to amend the ASSESS
ment laws of the District was referred to
Mr.. Faulkner as q subcommittee.
The Senate bill to change the route Of
the Washington and Georgetown Rail-
road Company was referred to Messrs.
Mcmillan and Spooner as q sub-com-
mittee, with instructions to prepare a re-
port, eliminating from the bill the right
Of the company to run its tracks along b
street north and along the east plaza of
the Capitol and on NJ street.
The Senate bill to incorporate the Ma
tional Conservatory of Music Of America
was referred to Messrs. Mcmillan and
Harris as subcommittee.
The Senate joint resolution constituting
an act to provide for the incorporation OF
trust, loan, mortgage and certain other
corporations within the District was with
drawn.
The Senate bill for the relief of Daniel
Donovan was referred to Mr.. Vance as
subcommittee.
Mr.. German to-day introduced in the
Senate bill for the relief of Barnet Il.
Swart Of the District. The bill carries an
appropriation of S6,0l2, the amount of
the verdict of the Court of Claims in Mr..
Swart's favor.
General Grout. chairman of the House
District Committee, to-day received from
adopted by the citizens Of Georgetown in
public meeting on the I'd instant in favor
of the granting of charters to all steam
railroads to enter their section and the
construction of the necessary bridges
across the Potomac above the Aqueduct
bridge. The resolutions also recommend
that the bills of the Norfolk and Western
and the Potomac Railroads, as amended,
be passed.
Representative Hemphll to-day re-
ported to the House favorably from the
District Committed substitute for the bill
TO amend the general incorporation law Of
the District. Under the existing awthe life
of an insurance company cannot exceed
twenty years. The bill provides for an
extension of charter for term not TO eX-
coed twenty years. The report accom-
panying the bill says that the legislation
seems to be necessary for the reason that
the life of certain insurance companies
has xIired, or is about TO expire, leaving
them without means of further corporate
existence except by special charter from
Congress.
Chairman Grout of the House District
Committee to-day received a protest from
the people on Seventeenth street north
west, from Farragut Square to the Bound
AIRY on Connecticut avenue, and Ii street
and Fifteenth street and property ada
cent to said streets, against the passage of
any bill to authorize the construction of q
cable, electric, motor or horse railroad
along said streets.
Mr.. Moore from the District Committee
to-day reported favorably the bill for an
inebriate asylum. The bill carries an ap-
preparation of 100000, and the institution
is TO be located, ii practicable, upon the
Burlington estate, otherwise IL Is to be
located on the st. Elizabeth Asylum
grounds