Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-20

for purposes of profit.
August 6-To pay for an alley condemned
in square 1913.
August Ito regulate water main as
sessments. This bill did not receive the
unanimous approval of the Commissioners,
but was the cause of majority report
against it to the President 1t provides a
new scale of assessments against property
owners for water main improvements.
August Ito provide for the closing of
part of an alley in square 1S5.
August Ito provide an immediate re-
vision and equalization of real estate val
ues. and an assessment of real estate in
1So6 and every third year thereafter This Is
very important enactment,as has been fire.
quently pointed out in The Star. 1t creates
a board Of assistant assessors to revise and
equalize the tax assessments. The board Of
assessors is also made the excise board of
the District. The Commissioners have al
ready appointed the three members Of this
board. and they have entered upon their
duties.
August 13-To provide for the payment of
the per cent greenback certificates of the
District of Columbia. There are about
s2O,O0O of these securities now unsold in the
hands Of the treasurer of the United States.
Awaiting Approval.
In addition to these bills that have been
signed. there are two important street
railway measures awaiting approval One
of these grants the Washington, Alexandria
and Mt. Vernon Railroad Company a right
ington end of the Long bridge and north
ward by 18th street to E. thence to Ii IL,
to b, to the Center Market. This will give
connections with Alexandria and Mount
Vernon by electric car, and in case a bill
row pending in the Senate granting right
OF way through the Arlington reservation
becomes a laws 1t will also give facilities
for communication with Arlington and
Fort Myer. The company will use the
Long bridge under arrangement with the
Pennsylvania Railway Company.
The other bill now awaiting signature is
known as the omnibus railroad bill, and
affects the charters of three local COM
panies- 1t is entitled IAN act to amend
the charter of the Washington and Great
Falls Railway Company" and re-e5tablish
the route Of that company SO that 1t will
have, without crossing the conduit road, a
terminus at the north end Of the Aqueduct
bridge by way of Prospect street. The bill
also authorizes the Washington and George
town Company to extend its track from the
present terminus to the end Of the bridge
and requires that company to erect and
maintain union passenger house for the
convenience of the passengers OF these two
companies and also all others that may
he hereafter chartered to that terminus.
The bill amends the charter of the Ecktng-
ton. and Soldiers Home Company by grant
,,g the privilege of an extension of its
tracks to the Center Market by way of
9Th street, Louisiana avenue, 9Th and b
streets.
In addition to the strictly local measures
signed, there have been minor matters of
some importance scattered through the
regular appropriation bills. In the urgent
deficiency bill of March II there were ap-
preparations for repairing the old Armory
building, now used by the fish commission,
and also the old Ford Theater building. on
10th street.
The District appropriation bill. approved
August Z, carries an increase over last
year of upward of $200O0O. In addition to
the current appropriations, 1t provided
fnr 3Aut nd
and set forth an entirely new system to
regulate this service.
In the Senate.
The Senate calendar contains nineteen 10
cal measures. most of them of considerable
Importance to the people Of the District, but
it is not probable that any one of them will
become law at this session. They are as
follows:
Making a judgment a lien on all real es-
tate or interest Of the debtor in the Dis
trict.
To prevent the recording Of subdivisions
of land in the office of the recorder Of deeds.
To simplify the form of deeds of con-
veyance, trusts and releases of land in the
District
To amend the act of October 1. 1850. re-
lating to the Incorporation of certain cor
porations within the District.
To provide additional accommodations
for the government printing office.
Revising and undermining the system Of
tax sales.
To change the name of 10th street to Ex-
ecutive avenue.
To establish labor regulations for the
District of Columbia.
A resolution relative to the transfer shed
at the corner of 18th street and Pennsyl-
yania avenue.
To amend the act of May IL, 1892 pun
ishing false swearing before police and fire
department trial boards.
To require street railway companies in
DISTRICT nfS
with asphalt, vitrified brick or granite
blocks.
To increase the water supply in the city
rights at Great Falls.
To authorize the sale Of certain private
property in Georgetown.
To amend the law In relation to the sep
arate property of married women in the
District.
To amend the law with relation to mar
riase and marriage returns in the District.
To amend the charter of the lexington
and Soldiers Home Railroad Company. This
bill was enacted as q section of the Omni-
bus railroad bill. already referred to.
TIC provide for continuing the system of
trunk sewers In the District, to provide for
sewerage disposal, to lay out highways and
for other purposes. This is the bond issue
DILL, similar to that pending in the House,
except that the Senate committee has taken
a strong ground in favor of the continu-
ance of the system, whereby the govern
ment pays one-half of the expenses OF the
District. This is in contrOversion of the
attitude of the House.
Granting the right of way through the
Arlington reservation for electric railway
purposes. This is House bill and needs
but the action of the Senate to give the
Mount Vernon road its necessary Airing
ton terminus.
To provide for the erection of a national
home for the aged and infirm .colored per-
sons the District.
Bills Not Reported.
The calendar of the Senate committee on
the District contains a large number of
measures that were never reported to the
Senate. Among the most important of these
are the following: To amend the charter of
the Washington and Arlington Railroad
Company, the District Commissioners rec
ommending adverse action; to define the
route of the b. and o. road in the District ,
to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors !;
to authorize the Falls Church and Potomac
Railroad Company to extend its line into
the District, which was practically enacted
in the Mount Vernon bill; to incorporate the
Washington Traction Company; to found a
college of scientific learning; to authorize
the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company
to extend its line into the District; to in
corporate the Washington Central Railway
Company. the Commissioners recommending