Evening star., 1894-03-21
DISTRICT IN CONGRESS.
Several Bills of Local Interest Passed
by the Senate.


The Senate got through it's routine pusi-
ness soon after noon today. and taking up
the calendar passed a score or more OF bills
before o'clock Among these were n few
District measures. Senator Proctor induced
the Senate to go back to a bill token up the
other day. which went over without preju-
dice under objection by Senator Turpie-
Senate bill 444, making the surveyor OF the
District a salaried officer and providing for
a more efficient service in the surveyors s
office. There was no objection to the hill
and 1t was passed without division. A few
moments later House bill 3248, for the up
pointnent OF sealer and assistant seaier
of weights and measures in the District,
was reached. but Mr.. Mcmillan, in charge
of the bill, stated that the senator from
Delaware desired that the bill should go
over, and to accommodate him he made
that request Senate bill 911, to open, wild
en- and extend alleys In the District, IVES
taken up and read, but Senator Cockrell
arose to ask what effect this hill would
have. He stated that in some alleys the
houses are built UP on the line Of the alley,
that II the alley should be widened the
houses. he apprehended. might have TO BE
torn down. involving expensive condoInna-
ton proceedings. Senator Faulkner. in
charge of the bill, stated that he did not
expect that the bill would come up today
and he was therefore unprepared 20 an
swer the Senator's question. He did not
believe. however, that the bill involved such
a contingency, and he was satisfied that
would be found that there were no condemn
alton proceedings or destruction of buildings
contemplated. But he asked that the bill
might go over without prejudice, so that he
would have time to entirely satisfy the
question of Mr.. Cockrell
Relief of Potomac Steamboat Co,
Senate bill 425, a bill for the relief of the
Potomac Steamboat Company. was then
taken up and passed. The bill originally
appropriated $500 to be paid to the Poto-
mac Steamboat Company in satisfaction of
the judgment secured against the United
States in the circuit court for the eastern
district of Virginia, for damages to the
steamer Excelsior when she was sunk by
the United States tug Fortune IN Hampton
Roads on the 4th of December, 1892. The
COMMITTEES on claims reduced this amount
to $1,000 and this amendment was adopted.
together with an amendment declaring that
this sum shall be full satisfaction for the
damages.
House bill 4O13 was then passed. 1t turns
over to Mary o. Augusta all interest Of the
United States in the west half of lot 3, in
square 2i7
Senate bill 1905. relating to the incorpora-
ton Of certain corporations within the Dis
trict, in The form of an amendment of the
act OF October 3, 1890 was reach ed at this
point, and Senator Martin. who Is in charge
of the bill. stated that legal question has
arisen over the bill, and At his request IT
went over without prejudice.
The Deeds of Conveyance.
At o'clock this afternoon the Senate re-
sumed consideration of the bill to simplify
the forms of deeds of conveyance trust and
releases of land in the District, and Senator
Allen took the floor on behalf os his ameud-
ment giving TO grantors of trust leeds one
year for recommssion of their property ff-
ter foreclosure and sale. He pointed out A
number of places where. in his Judgment
the bill operated unjustly to the debtor
There was quite a discussion between him
and Senator Faulkner as to the real mean
ing Of certain sections of the hill, and Mr.
Allen called attention to the delinquent tax
lists now being published in this city as an
evidence as he expressed it, Of the burdens
under which the humble homes Of this city
are now suffering