Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-27
II HAS NOW PASSED
The Metropolitan Railroad Bill Ready
for the President. ----.
FULL TEXT OF THE AMENDED MEASURE
A New Section Provides for Issuing
Reciprocal Transfers.
TALK WITH MIR. M'MILI.AN

In a few hours the Metropolitan railroad
bill will go to the President. AS stated in
The Star yesterday, the House, after a
stormy debate, agreed to the report Of the
conferees and late in the afternoon the
Senate took the same action without airy
discussion. The bill as finally agreed upon
reads thus:
Text OF the Bill.
That the Metropolitan Railroad Com
pany. Incorporated under the act of Con-
gress approved the list day of July. AID.
1864, be- and the same is hereby, required
to cease to use on it's lines running east
and west each and every closed car that
has been in use on any of its lines for three
years or mere. and shall substitute there
for new cars of the most approved pattern.
Failure to comply with the provisions of
this section within ninety days from the
approval of this act shall subject the said
company to fine of SO for each
and every day during which the company
neglects or refuses to make the substitution
OF new cars as herein specified. which fine
may be recovered by the Commissioners of
the District of Columbia in any court Of
competent Jurisdiction.
Sec. . That the said Metropolitan Rail-
road Company be. and the same is hereby,
authorized, empowered, and required to
equip and operate the lines of it's cars upon
and along all the streets and avenues Of
the cities of Washington and Georgetown,
within the District of Columbia. where the
lines OF its road or any part thereof are
now laid and operated, and as hereinafter
provided with pneumatic or with an I'M
foreground electric system for propulsion of
such cars: Provided, That the change to
an underground system shall be completed
upon its north and south line within one
year and upon it's east and west line within
two years after the approval of this act:
Provided there shall be completed an ex-
tension thereof on East Capitol street from
9TH street east to 18th street east, around
both sides of Lincoln Square. And in de-
fault of such competitions all acts or parts
of acts chartering or extending the said
road are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. That the said company is hereby
authorized and empowered 10 Issue its
bonds, secured by a mortgage on it's fran
Chises and other property, to such amount
as may be necessary to pay the cost Of the
work to be done and of the materials re-
CURED and the expenses incident to the
change to be made as provided in this act
but not in excess of such cost. And said
bonds shall not be sold disposed of at
less than their face or par value
The Judgment and the Court of APP
peals.
Sec. A. That a transcript of the record
of the case of the District of Columbia
against the Metropolitan Railroad Company
of the District of Columbia, at law, num-
bered 2245S. in the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia, together with the |
original papers and record entries therein, |
duly certified, shall, by appropriate orders |
duly entered of record. be transferred and |
delivered to the Court of Appeals of the |
District of Columbia. which said Court of |
Appeals is hereby vested with original au- |
thority and jurisdiction to hear and deter |
mine said case without jury upon the |
pleas and issues and proofs therein other |
than the pleas and issues relating TO the |
statute of limitation or plea of failure of |
notice to said company of any act required |
OF 1t, and TO determine from and upon said !
MI sno.. or,1 H..
contained, and such other proof In the |
course of said hearing said court may |
determine to be necessary In order to dis |
pose of the case upon its merits what il |
any. Indebtedness is due to the District of |
Columbia from the said railroad company in |
respect of the cause of action stated in |
the declarations filed in said case, assuming |
That due and proper notice has been given |
to said company OF all acts required in the |
premises, and to enter Judgment against |
said company in favor Gf the District Of !
that said Court Of Appeals shall find due |
from said company in respect Of said cause |
of action, for the amount of which said |
Judgment execution may issue out OF said |
court, and said Judgment shall Immediately |
become lien upon all the property Of said |
to be enforced i'm the manner now |
provided by law for the enforcement of
other liens, and shall be paid within nine |
ty days from the date thereof: Provided, |
That unless said company shall file in said |
Court of Appeals its consent in writing to |
the aforesaid transfer of the said case and
also a waiver of all its rights and defenses
under the statute of limitation and from |
want of notice as hereinbefore provided fer,
and also a waiver of all rights benefits, |
and defenses that 1t has or |
may have by reason of the decision and |
judgment of the Supreme Court of the |
United States made and entered in said |
case within thirty days after the approval |
Of this act then all rights granted to said |
by this act shall cease and be |
Provided, That the Judgment |
Of the said Court of Appeals shall be final |
and that there shall be no appeal tn re- |
from: And provided further, That the cost |
Of said transfer and of the hearing of said |
case in the Court of Appeals shall be paid |
by said railroad company.
Reciprocal Transfers.
Sec. 5. That the Metropolitan Railroad |
Company is hereby authorized and required |
to make reciprocal transfer |
with street railroad COM |
panies whose lines now connect with its |
lines, and to furnish such facilities there
for as the public convenience may require. |
Upon the completion of the underground |
electric system provided for in this act |
the said Metropolitan Railroad Company is |
hereby further authorized and required to |
enter into reciprocal trackage arrange |
ments with connecting roads The schedules |
and compens alton shall be mutually agreed |
upon between the said Metropolitan Rail- |
read Company and the companies with |
whose lines it's lines connect; and in any |
case of failure to reach such mutual agree
ment the matters in dispute shall be de- !
termined by the Supreme Court of the Dis |
trict of Columbia, upon petition filed by |
either party.
Provided, That every street railway COM
pany in the District of Columbia whose |
lines connect or whose lines may here |
after connect with the lines of any other |
street railway company is hereby sub |
jected to the same requirements as to trans |
fers and trackage arrangements and upon |
similar conditions as in this section pro- |
vided in the case of the Metropolitan Rail- |
read Company and the lines connecting !
herewith
Section 6. That On and after one year |
from the approval of this act the Metro |
politan Railway Company shall pay to the |
District of Columbia, in addition to all |
other taxes now required to be paid by said |
company, an annual tax of $500 for each |
and every car operated by horses on that !
portion Of it's lines known as the 9th |
street line: and on and after three years |
from the approval of this act the said |
railway company shall pay, in addition to |
all other taxes now required to be paid by |
said company, an annual tax Of 500 for |
each and every car operated by horses on !
any line owned or controlled by the said |
company.
Section :. That Congress reserves the !
power to alter amend or repeal this act. |
The conference between the man2yers of |