Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-31
DISTRICT IN CONGRESS.
Information Wanted From the Commission
ers as to the Approval of Certain Plats.

Information Wanted From the Commission
ers as to the Approval Of Certain P!ats.
There is a disposition apparent in thevSenat,
District committee to ask awkward questions
and then to insist that the questions be an
swered. This was made plain once more this
afternoon when the Senate agreed to a resolu-
ton offered by Senator Mcmillan from the COM
mittee on the District. A good deal of interest
is being felt by Senators as to the extension of
streets. and there was no one to object when the
resolution came up.
The request is voiced in the following words:
whereas the act entitled an act to regulate the
subdivision Of land within the District of
Columbia. approved August "a, 1883, authorizes
and directs the Commissioners of the District
of Columbia to make and publish such general
orders as may be necessary to regulate the plat
ting and subdividing Of all lands and grounds
in the District of Columbia; and
'Whereas the general orders made and pub
lished by the said Commissioners on December
6. 1888, provides that streets not in alignment
with the streets of Washington shall be not less
than ninety feet and also that no minor
streets in a square shall be less than sixty feet
in width and
''Whereas bill has passed both houses of
Congress providing that streets hereafter laid
out shall not be less than ninety feet in width,
and
Whereas the map of Stellwagen and Wolf
(trusteesO subdivision of the Schuetzen Park.
near Washington, in the District of Columbia,
surveyed April, 1892. and bearing the approval
of the District Commissioners, shows Hancock
street, Mcclellan street and Steuben street each
with width Of but sixty feet; and
whereas the map of Stellwagen and Ed
monston, trustees, addition to lie Droit Park
missioners of the District of Columbia No
vember IA, 1891, shows Thomas and Seaton
streets (both minor streets with q width of but
fifty feet; and
"Whereas the plating of such narrow streets
is seemingly in direct violation of the law of
Hereunder, and, further. is calculated TO entail
large expense hereafter when the streets shall
be widened to make them conform to the es-
tablished width Of the streets of the District,
therefore be it
Resolved, that the Commissioners of the
District Of Columbia be and they are hereby
directed to report to the Senate forthwith: first,
by what authority and for what reason they ap-
proved the above mentioned plan; secondly
whether they have approved other plats not
made in conformity to the general orders Of De-
cember 8, lSSS; and, thirdly, what steps. if any.
can be taken In cases Of such approval to cause
the plat to be amended 90 as to conform to the
general orders OF the Commissioners"
PLATFORM FoR THE POST OFFICE.
On motion Of Senator Mcmillan the Senate
this afternoon took up and passed the Senate
joint resolution by the terms Of which the Dis
trict Commissioners are authorized 10 issue a
permit to the city postmaster to con-
struct and maintain platform in the
thirty-foot alley on the east side of the Union
building, in which the city post Office is now
temporarily located The platform is in the
Provision is made that it shall not be wider
than eight feet or longer than seyenty-fiye feet