Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-07
DISTRICT LAWS
Little Prospect Of Further Local
Legislation.
LAST MEETING OF SENATE COMMITTEE
Many Measures on the Calendar
Awaiting Action.
o 7 H E r NJ A T T E r S

Tomorrows meeting of the Senate Dis
trict committee may be the last of the
present session of Congress, as Chairman
Mcmillan is to leave the city for Michigan
tomorrow night, to be gone at least
week, and the skipping of the meeting day
of next week will greatly reduce the avail
able time left before the final adjournment.
The committee calendar is well filled with
material for legislation. and some of the
more important of these Will be taken up
tomorrow and passed upon. But 1t matters
little what work the committee may do.
the opportunity for securing action by the
Senate is now small and daily grows less.
AT this end of the session it is very diff
cult to secure action on local bills, so the
District committee does not feel that it is
necessary to clear up its own calendar,
especially as everything now pending
either before it or the Senate will not be
affected by the adjournment OF Congress,
but will retain every right now possessed.
1t may be that the Senate Will grant at
least one day before adjournment for the
consideration of bills on the calendar.
Local Measures Now Pending.
The local measures now pending before the
Senate. with favorable reports, are as FOL
lows: S 1232 to license billiard tables; S.
1927. to increase the police force; H. r. 5I51.
to regulate the practice of medicine; II. r.
3;f2 to regulate the business of storage;
S 9Sl relating to the testimony of physi-
clans in the District courts; H. r. lio2. to
amend section i16 of the Revised Statutes
relating TO the District; 5. 400, to relieve the
estate OF \. H. Herr, deceased; S. 1ISl. to
furnish flags for school houses in the Dis
triCt; II. K. Gtjlr:, to authorize and regulate
the sale of unclaimed freight and baggage;
L 1tv,sr hnE ii
ards of dry measures; S. 22:iI for the APP
pointment of a committee or guardian for
pensioners In certain cases in the District
5 24G9, TO release certain property to
Francis and Juriah Hall; H. r. 5l05, to
abolish days of grace; s. 1JI2, to incorporate
the convention of American Instructors of
the Deaf in the District; H. r. 1878, to au-
thoriZe the reasseSsrent of water main
taxes; $ 2lrS, to regulate certain prosacu-
tons; 5. 1915, to redeem outstanding GER
tihcates issued by the board of audit and
the board of public works; S. 1893, to amend
the act TO increase the water supply; S. $50,
to incorporate the East Washington Heights
Street Railway Company; II. r. 227, requir-
Ing bill Of sale, etc, to be recorded; S. 2I4S,
providing that all judgments in civil causes
shall bear interest: H. L. J19O, to permit
the PintSch Comprising Company to lay
pipes: 5 lIS2, for the appointment by the
Commissioners of the trustees of the Indus
trial Home School; II. X. 6a9i, relating to
the price of gas; S. 49,, to extend North
Capitol street; 5. 2221 to extend the reT.-
lations as to party walls: s. 20Ss. author
lzlng the sa lie of the title OF the United States
in lot >. square 111:i: 5. .n6. to amend the
charter OF the Brentwood Railway Com
pany: s 2SI0. to permit Rene c. Baughman
to lay pipes, and 5. 1G-.h, 20 amend the laws
as to married women, etc.
District Appropriation Dill.
The District appropriation bill will prob
ably be reported to TIE Senate from the
committee Oh appropriations tomorrow The
subcommittee concluded it's work on the
bill this afternoon and arrangements were
made for full committee meeting tomor-
row morning to consider the bill in the
shape in which it is finally left by the SUBJ
committee. The discussion on the bill in
the Senate will Immediately follow the dis
position of the Du Pont case on which a
vote is to be taken on the second day af-
ter the river and harDor bill has been pass
ed, which means that the District bill will
be taken up by the Senate about Wednes-
day of next week OF perhaps Thursday.
Fixing the Wages.
Mr.. Walsh has introduced bill in the
House fixing the wages of electrotype
holders and finishers in the government
printing office at ~ cents an hour for the
time actually employed.
Location of Cemeteries
Mr.. Meredith has introduced a bill in the
House providing that hereafter it shall be
unlawful for any corporation, company
person Or association Of persons to locate
cemetery, or burial groInd for the inter-
ment OF the dead. in the District of CO.
lumhia. when the location of such cemetery
or burial ground shah or may hereafter in
teriere with the cXtenSiOn of the street !, of
the city of Washington as low Ioca Ted or
that may be hereafter located, according to
the plan of the extension of the streets.
Physicians Testimony in Court.
The House District committee today IA
vcrably reported q bill providing that IN
the courts of the District of Columbia no
physician or surgeon shall be permitted
without the consent OF the person afflicted.
or of his legal representatives. disclose any
information which he shall have acquired
in attending patient in a professional ca
Pac.ty and which was necessary to enable
MN to act in that capacity, whether such
Information snali nave been obtained from
the Tat!eat or from his family. or from the
person or persons in charge of him: Pro
yidad, That this act shall not apply to evil
dence In criminal cases where the accused
Is charged with causing the death of, or
lnhicilhS injuries upon, human being, and
the disclosure shall be required in the in
terests Of public justice.
The Request of Peter Van Essen.
A favorable report was also made on the
bill authorizing the Commissioners 20 ac-
cept the beQuest of the late Peter Won
Essen for the use of the public white
schools of Georgetown.
Poles Outside the City Limits,
1t is understood that the suhcomn; tee
On District appropriations has decided to
amend the amendment recently introduced
by Senator Mcmillan authorizing the cree
ton of telephone poles outside the city linn
Its, 50 as to permit any company which
may secure a permit to do so from the Dis
trict Commissioners to furnish heat. light.
power and telephone service by electricity
IN the suburbs Of the city of Washington
That is to say. as now agreed upon the
amendment. it is said. will open the suburb
an Held to free competition by elaotr tcal
companies whether they supply lighting
neat power or telephone communication
Inc amendment is 50 drawn as to permit
any company havir e the means and en-
1oylnS charter under the District laws
10 apply 10 and secure from the District
commissioners permission to engage in this
business, even though they may not be the
recipients of congressional authorization
mis- applies only to that section within
the District that lies outside of the present
limits OF the city of Washington
Death of Mrs. =. J. Noonan,
The friends of Mr.. William RYAN OF the
quartermaster generals office will be pain