Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-09
DISTRICT IN CoN0REss.

The House District committee, at It's regular
meeting today, favora6ly reported the bill 70
pay the owners Of the ground In square 4sS.
which wss condemned for IN alley. In 1881
Congress appropriated sum to pay for such
condemned lands, but the owners Of this prop
erty did not call for the money until II had
been covered back into the treasury. Interest
10 allowed at per cent from August, 1870.
TO PUNISH FALSE swEAsIxo.
A favorable report was also made on the bin
to punish false swearing before the trial boards
Of the police and fire Department. False
swearing before these boards shall be deemed
perjury and shall be punishable as such under
the laws Of the District Compulsory attend
ance of witnesses 10 authorized to be required.
This bill was reported at the request Of tho
nesses before the trial boards do not chow that
strict regard for truth in giving their evidence
which il necessary for = clear comprehension
of the facts in the case by the board
Afavorable report was authorized on the bill
directing the Commissioners to refund to Esther
A. Keyser f2.0S6 as tho purchase money for lot
8, square 1873, together with all such sums
which have been paid by her as taxes and as
sessments against the property which was sold
to her by the corporation Of Washington. the
said corporation having failed to make valid
deed to the property.
FACILITIES TO sruprxra
A favorable report was authorized on Mr..
Hemphills resolution providing that facilities
FOR research and illustration In certain govern
mental collections in Washington shall be &C
cessible to the students OF any institution Of
higher education now incorporated or here
after to be incorporated in the District
The following collections are named: Library
Of Congress, National Museum, patent office,
bureau Of education, bureau OF ethnolosy,
I Army Medical Museum, Department Of Agri-
culture, fish commission, Botanic Gardens,
coast and geodetic survey, geological survey,
naval observatory.
A favorable report was authorized upon the
bill appropriating S107 for the redemption Of
a Certificate issued by the late legislative as
sembly Of the District
THE LAND TIrLxs BILL
The report which was authorized at the last
meeting OF the committee on the bill to amend
the laws relating to land titles in the District
was reconsidered to permit the addition Of the
| following amendment to section 6:
provided that sections 8, 4, and shall not
operate upon any property about which litiga-
| District of Columbia or Supreme Court of the
United States for the period of three years
from the date Of any final decree which may
| be rendered i'll any OF said cases"
The bill % thus amended will be reported.
SUBURBAN HIGHWAYS.
The report heretofore authorized on the bill
to provide q permanent system of suburban
highways was ordered withheld until the Senate
bill of the same tenor reaches the House, when,
| if i does not conflict with tho House bill, 1t
will be reported.
Tho committee authorized the subcommittee
on street railways to report an amendment to
the bill Incorporating the District Of Columbia
Suburban Railway which will merge into that
company the proposed Washington and North
anuxA D-,l, H. e H.
lattcr's route is parallel in many places with
the first named road and it ia proposed to con-
Bolidate the two
MORE BRONZE DOORS.
II the Joint resolution introduced by Ssna-
tor Dawes becomes law there will be bronze
doors at the doorway Of tho portico on the
| south wing Of the Capitol The amount appro-
priated by the resolution is $4,000.
STATUE TO TIE LATE SAN RANDALL.
Mr.. Hatch introduced bill In the House by
request today appropriating $4,000 for the
erection of q statue in this city to the late
Samuel ]. Randall. The site to be selected by
the Vice President of the United States and the
Speaker Of the House. and the statue to be
erected under the supervision o. the chief Of
engineers OF the army.
THE DENTISTRY BILL PASSED.
The Senate today passed the Morrill, bill Ito
regulate the pracuce of dentistry IN the DIS
trict and for the protection of the people from
empiricism in relation thereto" The
bin has been amended to a consider
| able extent. 1t was evidently the
original intention Of those who
framed the measure to place the examining
| control in the hands Of graduates OF "repu-
table dental colleges" but the text has been
changed SO that the examining board may be
composed Of five reputable dentists.''
Persons who practice without first obtaining
| certificate from the board will be deemed
| guilty OF misdemeanor. The fine is not less
than $50 nor more than $500; in default OF
| payment not less than thirty nor more than
ninety days imprisonment
| FLAGS FOR THE ENcAMpMENr.
Senator Hawley this afternoon, from the com.
mittee on military affairs, favorably reported
the Senate bill to authorize the loaning of flags
for the purpose of decorating tho streets OF thii
city during the Grand Army encampment