The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-10
WEEK I'm WASHINGTON.


SUNDAY, SEPT, est was announced to-day
that as a conseu uence of the constant pressure
upon the District Commissioners for months
in favor of high license there will be a strong
effort made for it before Congress. Last year
the bar-room license was advanced from 500
TO $500. but the upward movement Just begun
will now, IL is said, continue, and next year
the retail license fee will be at least $500, and
may be $1,000.
MONDAY, SEPT. 30-The completion of Al
baugh's new theater, on Lafayette Square,
and its opening tonight mark the latest de-
velopment in theatrical architecture in this
city. The building is thoroughly ire-proof
and its anterior arrangement shows some
marked improvements over the ordinary
style of theater arrangement. The house has
q seating capacity of about 100, and the
seats are so placed that the entire stage can
be seen from every one of them. Altogether
the theater is probably the most complete in
its equipment and arrangement in the coun-
try. The building itself is handsome one.
and is an ornament TO the square in which it
is located. This is the theater whose erection
no near the White House was vigorously OPP
posed in the last Congress. Senator Cameron,
whose house was next door. gave IL up after
the failure of the efforts to defeat the cree
tion.
TUESDAY, Der. LIN the Court of Appeals an
order signed by Mr.. Chief Justice Alvey, was
filed in the case of Capt. Henry w. Howgate,
directing that the defendant be admitted to
bail in the sum of $I5, coo. The order recites
that il was made :" in view of the special cir
cumstances of this case, the court acting
upon its discretion under the rule this day
adopted by it." This rule is a most import
ant one settling once for ali the question
Of the right Of the Court of Appeals and of
the District Supreme Court TO admit con-
vcted and sentenced defendant to bail pend
ing the final disposition of his appeal to the
Court of Appeals.--0yer one-ffth of US are
in school. This at least was the case
in 1923 in the annual report of DIR.
w. T. Harris. United States Comm issioner
of Education. The statistics are for those
years, and show there were 150S3, $50
pupils enrolled in the schools. colleges.
and various institutions of learning. This is
22.5 per cent OF the population, and an in
crease of 370,607 over the preceding school
year There were in the common schools of
The country l3,5l0,7I9 scholars.
~ WEDNESDAY, Der. "A recommendation from
the Grand Jury for the establishment of the
whipping-post ia Washington excited much
surprise here to-day. The Grand Jury in
Judge Brsdley's Criminal Court submitted
that after a discussion of the various crimes
and ofenses brought to our attention, believe
that until some other method of punishment
for such oienses petty larceny and WIFE
beating than that which now prevails in this
District is adopted the commission Of said
crimes and ofEenses will ontinBe TO increase
We, therefore, after serious consideration,
do most earnestly recommend 20 the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia that they
take such steps 70 institute a whipping-po
as will cause the same 10 be established, be-
lieying that the same would result in a de-
crease of crimes in the District of Columbia
and lessen the expenditures by the Criminal
Court in said District" The Supreme Court
has no power to establish q whipping-post.
An act of Congress would be required for
that.
THURSDAY OcT 3-The District Commission
ers took another step in the great street-ex-
tension plan when they applied 10 the court
fOr q condemnation Of the property inclnGed
in what is known as the first, or north west
section of The District. There are few SUBJ
1ects now attracting public attention here Of
greater importance than the expansion Of the
seat Of Government. The financial interests
arc concerned with the price OF lands, society
with the opening up OF new sites for villa |
seats. builders are looking out for more /
houses and workmen for more work. The /
District Government is getting ready for the |
new tasks which viii deVolye upon il by the |
early needs of the Greater Washington" |
OF course. eli things must run the gauntlet /
OF TIE courts, and the precise force, meaning, /
and TeleYgpces OF the various sections Of the |
law must be judiciaiiy determined. 1t is
proposed that Congress shall at its next ses-
sion aUthorize the issue of s.. 500.o 600 OF Dis
trict bonds for the work of extending Streets
carrying out the drainage aud sewer inn |
prOysmenfs commended some time ago by |
the National Board o. Experts. and for other
similar but less extensive and important /
works There seems to he little dou bt that |
an act for this purpose will be adopted by |
Congress and approved by the President.
FRIDAY, OcT. s-The monthly statement OF /
the public debt, issued by the Treasury De |
partment, shows the public debt on Sept. 30, |
less cash IN the Treasury. 10 have been S94l,- |
069.6 All increase Tor the month Of 81 ,e3s,.
667. The debt is recapitnlatcd as follows: /
Interest bearing debt, S137, 800, GO; debt on /
which interest has ceased since maturity, |
$1.6s506O; debt bearing no Interest. $S77,- |
41S.5l9; making an aggregate OF s.. l26. 49s,- /
999 exclusive Of 5000, 227, 693 ia certificates |
and Treasury notes, offset by an equal |
amount Of cash in the Treasury.
SATURDAY. OcT. 5.-Tbe habeas corpus pro- |
ceedings ia the case Of Capt. George A. Armes, |
who was confined at Washington Barracks |
for insulting Gen. Scbo6eld. Acting Secretary |
Of War, on Sept. q, were heard before Justice |
Bradley. The War Department was repre-
scented by j. N. Morrison. Grief Clerk in the |
office Of the Judge Re- /
gardless OF the action OF the civil courts, |
ArInes viii be tried by cOurt-martial, proba-
bly, At the Arsenal. aud in the near future
Among those who understand such matters,
IL is said that Armes's ofiense was not against
Gen. Sehoield in has capacity of General 1
commanding the Array. bat ss the repre-
sentative Of the Secretary of War, and hence 1
Of the President.