Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-17
DISTRICT IN CONGRESS
Street Railway Employees to Have Power
to Arbitrate.

Two bills were introduced in the Senate
today by Mr.. Call of Florida. A bill to reg
ulate the wages of conductors and drivers
ard other employees of the street railway
CORPORATIONS of the District of Columbia. is
similar to the measure introduced by Mr..
Call last year. 1t provides that when the
majority of the men employed as conduc-
tors and drivers on such street railways
shall consider themselves agSrieved by
the insufficient wages paid them, they shall
have the right to notify the Commissioners
of the District of Columbia, who shall
then notify the railroad company complain
ed of to select some person to be an arbi-
traitor, and shall also notify the street rail-
road conductors and drivers to select an
arbitrator, and these Two shall select a
third person, and said arbitrator shall
hear the said complaints and take evil
denCe therein, ard decide whether SUCH
complaints are wei! founded; and such de-
csion shall be binding on said corporation,
and give the right to such employees TO sue
for and recover the amount of wages 50
decided to be just ard fair, and the juds-
ment in such case shall be a first lien on
all the property of such corporation.
Remission of Tax Penalties.
Another bill by Mr.. Call provides that
all penalties on taxes in the District Of Co
lunbia be- and the same are hereby, re-
mitted in all cases where the tax shall he
paid on or before the first semi-annual pay
ment provided by law after the approval
of this act. except interest at the rate Of
six per cent on arrears that have accrued.
Physicinns' Testimony.
Mr.. Morrill, introduced a bill in the Sen
ate today providing that in the courts of
the District of Columbia no physician or
surgeon shall be permitted, without the con-
sent of the person afflicted, to disclose my
" ba hal hav al
in attending a patient in professional ca
pacty, and which was necessary to enable
him to act in that capacity, whether such
Information shall have been obtained from
the patient or his family or from the per-
son or persons in charge of him; provided,
that this act shall not apply to evidence in
criminal cases where the accused is charged
with causing the death Of inficting in
juries upon human being, and the dis
closure shall be required in the interest of
public justice.
Seulcr of Weights and Measures.
Mr.. Mcmillan introduced a bill in the
Senate today providing that section of
the act approved March =, 1885, entitled
AN act for the appointment of a sealer
and assistant sealer of weights and meas
ures in the District of Columbia, and for
other purposes" be amended as follows:
Section g. No per;on shall use for buy
ing selling, for weighing freight or
express matter any weights, measures,
scales or other instruments unless the same
shall have been examined and approved by
the sealer o. assistant sealer of weights
and measures.
The fact and the date of such examina-
ton and approval and the period for which
said examination and approval snail hold
good shall be certified to with the seal Of
the sealer of weights and measures. Such
certificate shall be attached in a fconspicu-
Gus place to the weights, measures, scales
or other Instruments so examined and ap-
proved: and such certificate shall be valid
only for such time as the Commissioners
of the District of Columbia snail provide
in the schedule of fees herein provided for:
Provided. that nothing herein contained
shall prevent ct any time the examination
and condemnation of any weights. meas
ures, scales or other Instruments that may
be found defective.
Failure to comply with the provisions of
this section or to pay the fees fixed by the
said Commissioners for examinations shall
render the person so failing liable to a fine
OF not more than so and costs of prosecu-
ton for each offerse, to be recovered in
any court of competent jurisdiction and
the court may make a further sentence
II at the offender be imprisoned in the Dis
trict jail for any period not exceeding SIX
months, until the payment of such fine and
costs.