Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-01-10
A FARMERS PROTEST
1t is Presented to the Senate District
Committee.
DISPOSITION OF CHILDREN BY WILL
Mr.. FauIkner's Report Of the Result
Of His investigation.
IqI0N OF CHILDREN BY WILL
HER LOCAL MEASURES


met at II o'clock, the members present be-
ing Messrs. Mcmillan, chairman; Gallinger,
Proctor, Pritchard, Baker, Wetmore, Faulk-
Eer. Gibson, Martin and Bacon. The alb
sentees were Messrs. Hansbrough, Harris
and Smith.
Disposition of Children by VIII.
Senator Faulkner made a report of his
investigation of the laws relating to the
power of father to dispose of the legal
custody of his children by WILL He re-
ferred to Judge Hagner's decision lately
made in the courts here on this subject, and
added to it considerable information which
he had ga thered. He said that he had found
that in twenty-three states of the Union
there is q law similar to that existing in the
District of Columbia, which gives the father
the power to will away the legal custody
OF the children. In no state, SO far as he
was able to learn, was any different law in
existence. The legislature of Illinois had
modified the law on this subject, as to
permit the mother, after the death of the
father, to exercise the same right in dis
posing of the children by will as the father
had possessed during his lifetime. The COM
m.ttee requested Mr.. Faulkner to make his
report on this subject to the Senate, and it
was decided that If a desire to change the
law should be developed. after the facts
were made known, a bill for that purpose
would be introduced. The matter was dis
cussed at length, nearly all members of the
committee commenting upon the law.
Wires Underground.
The resolution of Mr.. Gallinger relative
to placing telegraph, telephone and other
wires underground in the District of CO.
lumbia, was referred to a subcommittee,
composed of Messrs. Gallinger and Harris,
with instructions to report facts and rec
concentrations on this subject at the next
meeting of the committee.
6n Of ho inS fnr
the committee on the District of Column
bia to inquire and report by bill or other
wise as to the order of the Commissioners
in regard to spaces allotted to small farm
ers around the Center market, was referred
to q committee consisting of Senators
Martin and Faulkner.
Mr.. Mcmillan, the chairman, was author
ized by the committee to report to the
Senate joint resolution to extend the
time for making assessments outside Of
the city of Washington to May I.
Mr.. Proctor's bill to provide for continu-
ing the system of trunk sewers in the
District of Columbia, for completing the
system of sewage disposal and for protec-
ton against floods and for other purposes,
which was favorably reported in the fifty
third Congress by the District Commits
sioners. was referred to a committee. COM
posed of Messrs. Proctor, Martin and Gal
linger.
titled an act to punish false swearing be-
fore trial boards of the metropolitan police
force and fire department of the District
of Columbia, which has received a favor
was referred to Mr.. Faulkner, with in
structions to report the same to the Sem
ate when he was satisfied with the form
Of the bill.
Mr. Gallineer was authorized to report
favorably to the Senate the bill introduced
by him to incorporate the postgraduate tie
school of medicine of the District of Co.
lumbia.
A communication WAS nresented fo the
committee, signed by George Heff, presi-
dent; j. Waldo Bryan, secretary, in regard
to the efarmers.cccupying spaces around the
Center market. This communication states:
The farmers Protest.
'The undersigned duly elected officers of
an association comprising several hundred
farmers and garder ers, many of whom
have for more than 80 years last past mar
keted products Of their own raising under
awnings next to the south side Of Center
market, having learned with great sorrow
and astonishment of the erroneous answer
of the District Commissioners published i'll
The Evening Star of the Sth instant to the
respectful appeal which we, as good citi-
zens, made to Congress and the President
against the unjust order made by the Com
missioners removing at this inclement sea-
son Of the year from the covered place
which We have occupied with the friendly
consent Of all the stall holders in Center
market under an arrangement with the
officers of the Center market, and with the
consent of the board of public works and
every board of Commissioners since the
present form of government was adopted,
until the present board, without complaint
from any source, so far we can learn,
seem determined to force us 20 remove to
an unsuitable place to aid in building up
another market
I'm view, therefore, of many errors and
mistakes which the honorable Commission
ORG hav designing loo
to embody in their answer to the resolu-
tion of inquiry presented in our behalf to
the honorable Senator from Missouri we
respectfully ask that your honorable COM
mittee will call upon the Commissioners to
send to your committee the numerous pro-
tests now on file and presented to them
against their order of removal, numbering,
as we are advised, thousands of names of
the best citizens of the District who have
cealt with us and are our patrons, also the
protests of all the stallholders in the. Cen
ter market, and. finally, We urgently re-
quest your honorable committee to give us
and those who will testify in our behalf a
hearing that we may disprove the errors
and false charges which those interested in
building up a rival market have, by decep-
ticn, induced the Commissioners to put
FORTH"
With this communication is sent a copy
of printed petition to the President and
Smith, president, and Wells A. Sherman,
secretary. being an arreal or protest
against :he order Of the Commissioners re-
moving the farmers and garue.lcIs ,rv.n
the market sheds erected by the Center
Market Company on the sidewalk on the
south side Of the market, the same having
teen unanimously adopted by large meet
ing of those affected by the order held No
vember so.
To Grade Fourteenth Street.
Mr.. Richardson has introduced bill in
the House by request directing the Com
missioners to open and grade 14th street
from Park street to Spring road, and to
condemn, in the manner provided by law
prior to March ., 1885, for the condemna-
tion of land in the District of Columbia,
such Of the lands of the Mattingly estate
and of the estate Of John T. Lehman and
Lisle S. Lipscomb, surviving trustee, as
may be necessary for the extension of that
street. The amount of money necessary TO
pay the judgment of condemnation and the
cost of grading is appropriated. out of any
moneys of the District of Columbia in the
9th tod