The evening times., 1895-12-10
DISTRICT IN CONGRESS
No Meeting of the Senate CON-
Iait1ee This Meek.
SENATOR HARRIS OPINION
Either He or Mr.. Mcmillan w i'll ue.d
h-Mr. faulkn kner's Bill 10 A mend he
EckfnI:ton and soldiers Home Rail-
road Charter in Several Important
Particulars

Ihere VIII he no meeting OF the District
ooiiihiitee this week.
senator Harris said toda g. ..J sb,u r,,,
| call the committee together uptiI tha two
vacancies are fiie,i. This viii no; b,. dom,
J uhhti the organization OF the Senate il
decided on. 10
Either scuator McMiIlan or nlysclr viii
DE- at the head or the committee. | do
not know which. 1t has not Vet te.u 10
cited. The Republicans have done no,b.
them 'i''''
! ~ ne sebate this morning some important
matters were introduced and among them
"dS ohe hill hy Senator Faulkner.
I IN. r,,1ino"as 20 dnlehu The charter Of
! Company. '""'
TO LAY MORE TRACKS.
III authorizes the company to lay double
tracks. and switches over the following
streets: ''
be%lnHinS ut the junction OF Fourteenth
anu N streets northwest. running along
fourteenth TO ii thence along II noribrtst.
( "@rdiy 10 connecticut avenue. thence north.
weStwdrdiy along Connecticut avenue Ia
ana seventeenth streets no RI l. west: thence.
north along Seventeenth street to Florida
avenue: thence north along Seventeenth
stlec'. az me SAID street may hereafter be.
extended 10 Park avenue: hence no Invest
wafdly ON Lowell street to Sincteenih
street TO us junction with Kenyon street.
:, Also beginning al The intersection Of North
1apitoi street aud Michigan avenue To
bunker Hili road, thence along Bunker Hill
Ioid 20 lis junction with Fourth street
10. tiedSl, eNtended 50 as tn connect Will
tnc nue. now running To Brookland
AisD beginning al the present terminus
oi sdiu foad at the junction o: Fifteenth
Inn u streets northeast, running north on
fHteenth street 10 Maryland avenue: thence
along Maryland avenue 70 adcnsht,rp r,,.,I.
theuse along B.adensblrg road tu TN, bound
Maryland. VI
II ~ provided that the Rladcnsbire Rad
must DC widened to sixty feel and that The
hectss5rs condemnation proceedings NAV
bc instituted.
NO OVERHEAD WIRES.
II also provides that work shall begin
IN ninety days and completed within
clgntecn months nn as many avenues and
streets as are now opened and. within one,
year after the other streets are opened.
IL provides that overhead wires shall
not he used il electricity is the motive
power. and prohibits th.. use of horses
1t provides further that if any of the
streets are used by other railroad conp;l-
nies both companies NAV use the lines upon
lair ana reaSona b!r terms, aud thtsstIpr,inc
court OF the District shall settle any trouble
on this point.
1t provides that the fare charged shall
not exceed cents from any point to ter
minus uf main or branch lines. bui six tick
cts Tor 20 cents must be sold within the Dis
trict. The company may issue stock or is
sue bonds for such amou nt as may be neces-
sary to build the road.
IL provides also that the Commissioners
must arrange the grade. and also provides
for other mechanical changes in street work
that may be necessary.
ANOTHER MUSEUM BUILDING.
Senator Morrill, also Introduced a blll
for an addit tional fireproof building for the
National Museum. 1t provides that the
building shall be 500 feet square with two
stories and u basement, and shall be
erected in the Smithsonian PARK in har-
nony with The present building. on the
southwestern portion Of the grounds.
Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
is appropriated: and the building must
have a roadway of not less than fifty feet
width between it and the Smithsonian In
stitution. Its north front must he On line
with the south front OF tie Agricultural
Department and of the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition.
The bill also provides that the building
must he erected by contract, the award
going to the lowest bidder.
Senator Palmer introduced n bill grant.
ing an increase OF pension to Marion Nc
kibben, widow OF David B. Nick ibben. late
colonel OF the l5Sth Pennsylvania Infantry,
to $50 per month.