The morning times., 1896-03-21

In respect to the bill introdu ccd in the
House of Representatives, numbered 1902,
Tor the incorporation of Il company TO con-
troi the old Haynlarket square as farmers
wholesale market, the Commissioners file
sundry objections, as noted in the Evening
Times ofyesterday and Observation-Disclosures
OF House bill 6262, with amendments, in
lieu OF the other.
The Commissioners say:
The object of House bill No. 1909 ap-
pears tobe toincorporatea a wholesale market
| company under the name of the Farmers
Wholesale Market Company, with
unlimited power to issue and
sell bonds or tn borrow money
and execute mortgages and deeds of trust
upon itSpropertya yand franchises The capital
stock Is fixed at 500. 900, of which but
fifty per Centum need be subscribed, and
of the amount subscribed, but ten per centum
is required to be paid in cash.
SCOPE OF THE BILL.
ION cash investment of but So, 900 the
bill authorizes the farmers named in the
bill and their associates TO take possession
OF the Wholesale Market Square, between
Tenth and Twelfth, Little and streets
northwest, containing 50, 4S5 square feet
OF ground. ana to erect hereon market
sheds and buildings to serve the purpose of
a wholesale market.
The bill relieves the company from the
payment OF all taxes except on personal
property and grants the exclusive use for
a period of twenty-five $50 years of this
valuable square Of ground, appraised by
the assessor Of the District OF Columbia
at $311 900, in consideration of the pay
ment of the very inadequate rental OF
So, 500 per year.
| WORTH MORE MONEY.
''If there were any public necessity for
renting this square, it ought to bring at
least $4,000 per annum. a prominent
and wealthy citizen has offered TO pay
| $4,000 per year for it, and expire sses the
opinion that it would bring at least $20,-
| 900 per annum should the Commissioners
| be authorized to lease t.
/ The Commissioners are OF the opinion
| that il should not be leased at all. 1t is
needed for and is now in use as a whole
sale market. True, there are no buildings
on IL worth mentioning, but the Commits
sioners hope to see suitable buildings i,ro-
vided for by Congress at an early date.
! This valuable square of ground has only
! recently, and after protracted litigation.
been rescued from the possession OF the
| Washington Market Company. and now iC
is proposed to give it 20 another company
-sOb
| annum.
REGARDED WITH SUSPICION.
A significant provision OF the bill is
found in the last paragraph of che second
| section, which reads that no sales at
retail except as allowed by the corpora
alton ordinance of 1856, shall be allowed
upon any sidewalk or pavement within
three squares of the lands herein granted
20 the Farmers Market Company except
upon the sidewalk and pavement south of
and abutting on thc Center Market
This is evidently Il sly thrusC at the
Washington Market Company.
The board adds that iC does not require
the instrumentality Of a private corpora
| ton 10 improve this square. The District
| can ere y il own marker house and conduct
| q wholesale market as 1t does Che other
markets.
The Commissioners amend bill 6262, so
as TO provide per cent. 10 the amount Of
| SIC, 600, running for period of twenty
five years, as a means of raising funds
for constructing the market house, and
| also providing that the Commissioners
shall be empowered to establish reasonable
charges as rental for the stalls. in order
TO provide for payment of the bonds and
interest.
AGAINST INCREA sED FEES.
In their argument yesterday before Presi-
dent Ross, OF the Board OF Commissioners
against an increase of the license tax, as
mentioned in The Evening Times, Messrs
Madigan and Sullivan said such an ad
vance would be great injustice 10 a large
number of reputable dealers. 1t would
diminish the number of sa looms and increase
the multitude of speakeasies.
1t is unfair. they said 10 compare Wash
ington. in this particular, with other cities
anywhere else in the union. Mauufactur-
ing cities differ materially from Washing
ton, so far as patronage is concerned.
| President Ross suggested cha there seemed
TO have been no material diminution in
barrooms following the previous increase
in the fee from 500 to S4O0, bur this
was met by the statement that the limit
at which any money can be made by
very large number of the proprietors is a
S400 fee, and many places, well conducted
and respectable, find it impossible 20 save
anything.
This is evidenced, Mr.. Madigan said, by
the numerous transfers of license during
the year. Those who 20 into the busi-
ness, under a transfer, are usually govern
ment employees, who, having saved litCle
money lose their situations and embark in
the liquor business or in the cigar trade
or pool rooms The absence of manufac-
tories here renders this course necessary.
President Ross promised TO carefully in
vestigate The question, in all its bearings,
before deciding upon its merits.
MINOR NOTES.
Transfers OF license to wholesale were
granted yesterday as follows: From Louis
Spanier to Harry Rothschild, No. 521
Ninth street northwest; from James F.
keenan,, administrator, to James T. Kee-
nan and Frank Fegan, No. 462 Penn
sylvania avenue.
Brooks Carson obtained n permit yester-
day for the construction of ten dwellings,
at No 159 f street and Nos. 521 to 537