Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-05
Riot BILLS
Senator Faulkner Introduces the Court
House Proposition. ,,.>
The Patent oniee Building Bill-Land
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to Be Taken South Of
Sthe Avenue.

Among the bills introduced in the Senate
by Mr.. Faulkner, today were several he
placed before the last Congress and which
received attention before the committee on
the District of Columbia.
The bill to provide for municipal build
ing and court house was introduced with
out change. 1t provides for freproof
building, for the accommodation OF the mu-
nicipal offices and courts of the District,
to be erected on or near Judiciary square,
according to design and plans to be ap-
proved by commission consisting of Gen.
Casey, the Engineer Commissioner of the
District and the supervising architect of
the treasury. The cost Is not to exceed
S2,5OO,OO0 one-half to be paid by the Dis
trict and the other half by the United
States. %
acknowledgements.
Mr.. Faulkner also introduced a bill relat-
ing to the acknowledgment of instruments
affecting real estate within the District Of
Columbia. The measure provides the
forms OF acknowledgment to be used In the
case of conVeyances or other written instru-
ments affecting real estate in the District of
Columbia by natural persons and corpora
TONS
All the Sc bills were introduced in the last
Congress by Mr. Faulkner.
n Once
Another bill authorizes the construction
of a building for the accommodation of the
United States patent office, the entire cost
not to exceed S35OO,OOO The bill proposes
that site be selected on The south side of
Pennsylvania avenue
Fraudulent Divorces.
Mr.. Faulkner reintroduced also the bill
to prevent fraudulent divorces in the Dis
trict of Columbia
Telephone Charter.
IN the Senate today Mr.. German
introduced bill to permit the Stand
ard Telephone Company of Washing
ton AID Baltimore city to install. maintain
and operate telephone and telegraph plant
and exchange in the District of Columbia.
Ine u..i pior.ue. tnat the STANDARD COM
pany shall not at AIRY time charge more
than S36 per year for telephones in resi-
denceS, nor more than SIS per year for
these placed in business houses in the city
or washington, ar d such ado. tional sum
for service in the District outside of Wash
inGton as may be approx ed by the Commits
sioners; and the various departments of
the District of Columbia and executive de-
partments of the United States shall not
be charged more than the rate of SIS per
teleph, ne per year. for service within the
city. and such additional amounts for SER
vice in the District outside of the city as
may be approved by the Secretary of the
Interior.
Chaplain krnmer's Widow.
BY a bill introduced in the Senate by Mr..
Davis (by reuuest) the Secretary of the
Treasury is authorized 20 paw to datilda
S. Kramer. widow and Mary w Kramer
daughter of the late Samuel Kramer. the
nav of a chaplain of the navy from Ju,v R
1880 to Nav IL 1884 after de5uc,jnp the
amount airea6v maid IN MIN whila nc,inp
order Of the S.cratary IF the NawT he
being no regular chanlain ar s,id most tne
payment not to exceed 81 S,a, T'ba rIa;,,,
ants mentioned IN this bin now reside in
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