Evening star., 1894-04-11
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN
A Plan for District Representation in Con-
gress Broached.
An Attorney Rather Than a Repre-
sentative-Real Estate Transfers
NumerOus-LOcal News.

Some Georgetowners. believing that the
District does not receive from Congress the
attention she should have, from the fact
that she has no one in the great legislative
body who feels that interest in the place
which is only experienced by a permanent
resident, at the next meeting of the Citi-
zens Association, which will be held on
Friday evening, will formally present to
that organization, for its consideration and
recommendation to other like bodies, sub
ject that, while not new, has never been so
seriously talked of as now. 1t will be a
resolution petitioning for congressional
representation without obtaining it through
the usual channels. 1t is the sense Of the
resolution to have the District regularly
represented in Congress. Not by a man
chosen by the people. as in the states, CT
by the chief executive, with the advice of
his counsellors, but by a delegate, who
shall be selected without regard to poll
tics, by the Commissioners of the District
of Columbia. 1t shall be his duty to lock
after matters pertaining to the District
only, and to prepare briefs and arguments
in favor of and against all local bills in
troduced, he to be chosen from the Dis
trfct only, after a residence of at least five
years. that he may be in touch and per-
fectly familiar with the wants and desires
of those he represents.
The leaders of the movement want his
position to be similar to that of a delegate
from a territory, with the restriction that
he confne his attention solely to District
affairs.
BY no means do they want the office a
political one.
1t is not intended to make a legislator Of
him, but merely the representative of a
corporation, whose business 1t will be to see
that those he represents are not made vic
tins of improper legislation.
1t is said that all the principal trusts"
keep such a man at the Capitol during the
entire time Congress is in session.
To give him proper recognition, though IT
will be recommended that he be made
chairman eX-officio of the District commit
tee.
A Strange Case.
There was buried yesterday from the
Home for Incurables young girl named
Mary Leonard. who has been four times
prepared for the grave. Her affection was
the worst form of Brights disease. On the
occasions Of her supposed death she would
sink into condition that was in every
way lifeless, and for several days would
not breathe perceptIbly. Her body would
assume the usual rigidity, her flesh the
death-like appearance and her temperature
the lowness of a corpse For forty-eight
and even seventy-two hours at a time she
would remain so. Even experts pronounced
her dead.
Her burial yesterday took place only
after all tests had been made, and the body
Kept long after the usual time. Death
visited her to stay at last.
She is said to have had no living rela-
tives. The interment was made in Rock
Creek cemetery.
Real Estate.
David Oyster has sold to Amanda Cooley
parts of lots 90 and 81 in Beatty and
Hawkins addition to Georgetown, being
improved property on the west side of High
Ci2d) street below Prospect avenue Henry
Adler has sold to w. H Wahley lots II
and 13, block H. OF the subdivision of
Reno, and the Commissioners have trans
ferred to Frank Libbey, through a tax
deed G3-lO0 of an acre OF land on the New
Cut road
Subdivision Delay.
Mr.. Patrick Finley, one of the leading
! citizens of Harlem, the suburb at the in
tersection of the Conduit and Foxhall
roads, ard immediat tely west of George
| town, complains that building operations
are being greatly retarded in that section
| by the delay of the authorities in LAYING
out the lines OF the street extensions The
survey has been long promised At the
present time there are eight in one vicinity
des rc US OF building homes, with money in
/ the bark awaiting the beginning of opera-
/ tons, but who are hestating from the
fact that they might erect them in the
| middle of the streets which will be subse-
quently extended, and thereby cause great
| Inconvenience and additional expense in
moving them.