The morning times., 1896-03-10

The hill discussed by the farmers yester-
day before the Commissioners, as noted in
the Evening Times, requires the Commits
! sioners to assume control OF and us as a
| farmers market the open space bounced
/ by Ii street, Little h street, and Tenth and
/ Twelfth streets northwest, to hold and use
as a wholesale market, and also requires
! that the space designate shall he improved
with a concrete and aSphaltum or other
suitable pavement; that water shall be
! introduced and sewerage provided.
1t also provides for the erection of O.
suitable open building Tor projection or
country produce, and the expense for the
| Improvements is to be met by the issue Of
| bonds in sum not TO exceed 100000,
payable in Twenty-Five years, and bearing
3.65 per cent interest.
Those present represented about one
dozen clubs III Montgomery and Prince
! George counties OF Maryland but these
| clubs, il was stated, expressed the sent-
| men. ofaboat the en;icefarminG con munity
OF both counties.
The Spokesman for the farmers were in
| the order named: Il. b. Farquhar, Col.
T. Snowdel Hin, Arthur Stabler, James B.
| Iallowcll. Robert IL. Miller OF the Mary
/ land Experimental station, ana JOnn e.
! Bentley, master OF Olney Grange, and each
/ address made was NOT only in favor OF
/ the measure under consideration, House
| bill 6262. but condemnatory OF a bill
I formerly Introduced upon the same subject,
! wIicn latter was characterized Us the
Market Companys bill.
WHY DEALERS PROTEST.
Col. Hill said the bill originally intro
[ duced would probably pay the District
! S2,5Ou, but that sum would be wrun-s from
! the dealers, and they all felt justified in
/ opposing il.
what you want to do, gentlemen"
! continued Col. Hin, lis to make the sur
! rounding country prosperous. The Mary
! land farmers represented here are de-
/ pendent upon Washington. Give them a
( ciance o live, and you VIII always get their
! traG".'
! Ine Colonel referred to the pending bill,
then Icing considered, as the measure OF
/ consequence To the farmers. IL said
/ IT meets the approval Of every farmer he
/ had talked WIN.
The Commissioners desired TO know
/ how many farmers now hold stands at the
Center Market on the outside. Mr.. Far
1 quhar said possibly 10 per cent OF all on
/ the street, and or these some were not
/ producers.
The attention OF the Commiss toner's was
called TO the fact that Baltimore is max
ing an effort 10 divert TO their markets the
trade that naturally comes 10 Washington,
by establishing improved accommodal IONS
FOR The dealers, including the men then
present.
The organizations r"prcscnte at the
hearing were olncg Grunge, the Enterprise
Club, the Mont gomcry Club, The Club, the
Farmers Convention at Sandy Springs, the
County Grange, the Evansville Farmers
Club, the Maryland Experimental Station,
and others, and among those present, be
SIDES thc gentlemen named in the foregu-
ing were: F. L. Burke, DR.. V A Porter,
Albert Stab!er, W. Il. Twitchcll, Benjamin
Greman, f i. Clancy, W. NJ Candy,
Charles r. Darby, Francis Thomas, c. b.
Pierce. j. L. Ray, C. l. Gilpin, ]. B.
j ger, +. J. Downey, T. Il. Stabier W. H.
Brook, M. Kirk, DOM Thomas ana Robert
II Miller.
Many Of these arose and denounced the
statements, hitherto made, that they had
ndorScd the first bill. They declared a
decided preference for the one numbered
GZ62, and said they had been opposed to
the other from the beginning. They want
shelter ana just treatment, they said, and
for this they are willing 10 pay.
POLICE on GUARD.
The Commissioners yesterday issued an
order to tie superintendent of police di-
recting him 10 IlcVenJ any other etectrica
light wires TO he laid in the COnduitS now
NOI>ATQtAti III ItulkNtBtH anu SlAlttnln
street northwest, except such wires as are
now strung overhead in either Of said
streets and Ten only under the super
vision OF tic engineer department.
\ copy OF this order was sent to the
licutcnants whose precincts embrace the
territory prescribed, ard il IS Understood
these Officers viii give strict Instructions
to the patrolmen TO see that il is enforced.
The notice was delivered to Lieuts.
AnIisS, Boyle, GcssfOrd and Tcepie by special
order last evening, which lu>tiflcS the inn
preston that the commissioners bad rea-
son to anticipate a raid On tie conduitS
during the night.
TIE reason assigned 10y President Ross
for the PRONUNCIATION of the order was
that the hoard desired to keep the conduitS
clear for overhead wires.
The excise IOard pas Sed upon four APP
plicatiOnS yesterday afternoon, APPROX
ing one and rejecting thee, Is folio VS.:
Approved-Rchard Han, No. 1854 NJ
street.
lie cCtcd-W. II. QuackenhUSh. No. 1924
street northwest; John Curtin, No. 325S
ii street northwest, ana DanleI O'Conncll.
No. G05 c street northwest.
The bnari passed Iavurahly upon five
applications for wholesale license, incluG-
ing The two from Anacoslia, as follows:
Terrence Mcmahon. Nc 1898 Eleventh
street northwest; William c. Shaffer
Broad Branch road, county; George II.
Gray No 8 Monroe street Anacostia,
ana John Madigan, No 436 Monroe street,
AnacOstia
ONE OBJECToR RECEDES.
Mr.. Barnap as Bryan, who had signed
a protest against the last two. filed a
letter with the board in which he stated
that so far as he could do SO by means
OF his written communication he desired
as chairman of the committee in charge
Of the Anacostia branch OF the Central
Union Mission, 10 withdraw his objections
The protests, he said, We're based upon the
statement that the proposed saloons will
be within 100 feet of the Mission ROOM
Mr.. Bryan said That he did not wish to
he connected with a bitter personal fight
over the salooOn question. as in his opinion
his usefulness as a Christian worker and
a member OF the Brotherhood of ST. Andrew
would be impaired, although as citizen
ne is earnestly opposed TO the liquor traffic
in any form.
The Donnelly case is to come up for con-
sheraton on Thursday, upon a notice to
show cause why license shall not be
withheld.
The attention Of Commissioners TruesieI
and Powell was called yesterday TO the
alleged disObedience in the Division of the
order against selling liquor without license.
and they were asked If any official ac-
ton would be taken to punish the violators
Of the law.
The brief reply 10 the query was that the
board cannot undertake TO send detectives
into that quarter to discover the offenders.
That course, they said WouI,1 not he