The evening times., 1895-11-14

ket company, made one of the most forcible
| and logical speeches made in the meeting.
He opened by saying that some unseen
force had been at work, and that he had
| been away and knew nothing about the
matter until his return.
| He promised the market people that they
should remain ON the streets as long as the
company could keep them there, whether
| they paid a rental or not.
Gen. Ordway said that retail dealers
could not go to the "haymarket square,
as the ordinance says only wholesalers
| shall use it.
THE owners OF property around the hay
market" said he. ''are the people who are
prodding the Commissioners to drive you
! off," r.s
Washington Bonifant then introduced the
| following resolution:
| Now, therefore, be it resolved. That 1t is
| due the whole pOplee OF Washington that
petitions be sent TO the incoming Congress
| recently elected fresh from the people
| urging upon Congress the justice and the
| right OF the people of the District of
| Columbia to be represented in Congress by
1 a delegate of their own choosing If the
| present distinct form OF government which
! gives them no representation or voice is
! to be continued
Arguments on the adoption of the reso-
luton took some time, and ii was finally
I
PURPOSE NOT CHANGED.
| The Commissioners claim that with the
wholesale market they Will greatly i'm
| prove the conditions under which farmers
and others may offer their produce for
| sale in Washington. This prospect, they
| say, has been obscured in the minds of the
very men most benefited. The obfusca;ion,
! they state, is from the fog raised by the
| Washingto ton Market Company in an effort,
| commendable in their managers, to retain
| for the company revenues estimated from
| 81, 900 to $4,000 month.
| Anticipating defeat in the courts tomor-
row, where the Commissioners say they
| have weak case on their own showing,
! the market company has given ont a state
ment that they Will no longer charge far-
mers a rental for stands under and In the
| vicinity of the shed on the south side of
| their building, and suggested that th-
| Commissioners, as laboring only in behalf
of the farmers, lad now gained their point
| and should stop all proceedings to clear the
| streets.
But the Commissioners do not think the's
whole duty is done. They cannot agree with
| the company's suggestion to let the whole
matter drop. They think 1t is their duty
| in the interest of the whole people to follow
| the a ct OF Congress, TO clear the whoestreet
| and put dealers in comfortable places in
a business-like way.
MAI. PowELL'S STATEMENT
Commissioner Powell, who has special
charge of such matters, said this morning:
''Of course, we are not charged in our
purpose by the market company's offer to
relinquish charges to farmers. Congress
three years ago passed an act setting aside
for wholesale market the reservation
then held and rented out by the market COM
pany The company refused to give it up.
7 vii ipta ~ yva rpl mo- cir
and moved off the company's tenants.
I'VE are now preparing to complete the
duty imposed upon US by Con gress in
the equipme of a wholesale market.
Wholesale dealers will be obliged to get
off the street. They must either go into
the comfortable quarters We shall pro-
vide in the wholesale market or they
must rent stores elsewhere.
"Why, at the time we took possession Of
the so-called Haymarket, under the order
Of court, the farmers came to US and begged
us, almost on their knees, to establish this
wholesale market. Their change OF at
titude can be accounted for as each per-
SOD sees fit. They offered to pay reas-
enable rental for stands in this market, to
compete for them by bids and do various
other things if we would prov ide the place
for them.
at is all bosh about the farmers and
dealers being protected by the company's
Sieu NOl OHe-llitn OIL tneT1 can get unuer
it or be sheltered at all by 1t. Anyone who
will go down on the market will see the
wagons standing at the curb. and the vege-
tables piled on the sidewalk on the south
side of B street all the way to Twelfth
street. They are two deep in places in the
squares from Ninth to Twelfth far away
from the market building.
THE men, with their teams, stand out
wholly unprotected from the weather, nd
build little fires to Try to keen warm
Why, when they used gladly to rent stands
in the hay market from the market ccm-
pany the place had no shelter and hardly
any improvement. The dealers stood in
the mud and rain. We have filled up the
grounds and made a dry place 10 stand.
I'VE intend to put over it good roof and
make il a cOmforta Bile possible under the
conditions necessary to such use.
Certainly we intend to provide whole
law provides"
MINOR DISTRICT MATTERS.
The Commissioners this morning replied |
to Charles W. Campbell that Howa rd street,
Columbia Heights, is on the schedule for |
Improvements to be submitted to Congress;
also D. Kno wilton, No. 405 New Jersey ave- |
nue., that there is no record OF a permit is
sued to connect certain houses in square |
$50 with tie First street sewer. and B. |
Peckman .aann in reply to his letter of |
October II that the requisition to which |
he refers was approved and transmitted |
to the superintendent of charities on Oc- |
tober 81. On November the papers were |
forwarded by the auditor to the Treasury |
Department.
Commissioner Ross did not come to his
office this morning. He is slightly III at
home.