Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-09
Observation-Disclosures
The House Amendment Brought Up in the
Senate This Aftern DON.
MIR. Teller Asks Positive Instruction.
Mr.. GalllnEer Criticfses the Dis
trlct Commissioners.

|
Vice President laid before the Senate a
| message from the House announcing that
the House had agreed to an amendment in
! the District appropriation bill, which is
row in conference relating to electric
lighting, full statement of which appears
| elsewhere in The Star today. The legisla-
| tive status Of the question was this: Yes
| terday evening the Senate adopted the re-
port of the confereeS announcing the dis
| agreement, and had asked the House for a
further conference; the House had granted
| the request of further conference, but
| had made decided change in the text of
| the bill; the Senate was, therefore, confronted
| with new matter upon which action was
| necessary, unless the Senate should throw
upon the conferees the responsibility Of
accepting rejecting the new proposition
| OF the House.
| Decisive Instructions Wanted.
Mr.. Faulkner suggested that the Senate
disagree with the proposition of the House,
which would place the conferees the
necessity of comforting about that matter.
| Mr.. Teller, one of the conferees, thereupon
explained that this whole matter had been
carefully gone over in conference, and he
hoped that the Senate would act upon the
| House amendment in such a decisive way
! as to give the coaferees Instructions.
ite ~ ~" tihH saiIie matter hau once
| ment, which was ruled out on a point of
a,,.b o,oh 49, o , IN 81 ses ,iiu s'llNei!
hered m which i vs. ,,niad "a , ruir
by Mr. Pfnev.s SIu ~ 5h.p.ant
that this amendment brought up the whole
da'itiI 81 per a IN 1tl,is me erection OF pores
very decided pro-asrs had bneS % rnceit,e1
| from the citizens of Mt Plea SAINT and other
suburbs against any legislation that would
permit overhead wires IN those sections.
commissioners Criticised.
Mr.. Galinger took the floor, saving that
the nresc,t x,as ,,ro,,, ,,1,, a., 100, . L.. 49,
49,, - '' soou d 'iiiie DIS
"ouiu present itseH Tor general discus
sion OF the questions involved in this amend
nent He had already placed himself on
| record, he went on. against the nronosit;on
| to permit q -;val eioctric co,,,r ~ - t
| the District to comDete with tha cnnnanv
already in existanca o,1 80 P l
| strongly in onnositin, ~ .ho. H "s hioie
| that an effort was beinp maaa w So
| such legislation hv jndi-eot Tnoars
I'VE had better talk plainly about This
| matter" said Mr. GaIIinrer "I disIil,a 70
| be put in the ottitI,ja Of ,.riti..Is;n,. NO
| Commissioners Of me Ustrjct If - VIII
| known that l have, no very great re.aYI
| for the present form of government in the
! District of Columbia. and thar ! esnerfaIiv
| dislike the form Of government yrhicb ~
poses on the nation ona-haIf or ~ az
renses of the Dis;rict ana crcatss a hoe~d
| Of
except perhaps the Engineer Commiss,nnar
| is ever appointod fro-, ou,s,1a ~ tt IN
| trict of Columbia In ,.iau, 90 ~, ~ 80
cumstanres go net VIC" % ali me CIR
! siCners Will probably be necessary"
The Local Company Defended.
Mr. Ga.linser read from, q uorninc no
per certain statements IN regard 70 tho W.
posed legislation. all Of xv3ic, be s,id ho
| could not accept. hui which bo Gov, 70
|
| He called esnecia1 ,t+.utfon a. 49, 49,.
| that there has never vet been anv com.
plant Of the service or prices Of ~,
United States Electric Lighting Comm, NV
which, he admitted, MAY have rereiIai
more than it should for its product, and
may be a monopoly. but that vet no faTlt
| had ever been found against it He I.
| viewed the facts in regard to the chance
| from overhead to the underground system
| and noted that the stock was almost en-
| clusiN ely owned By citizr,s of yyasbiDr,Cn
| Congress, he said shouII hesitate bStC-n
permitting u l.cw company to CONF in es-
resents outside capital. ana is backed hv y
| very wealthy syndicate controIIiD, a WOW
! opoIy such as the people Of The nfsirir+
OF Columbia have never enrounteraI
| Mr.. Galiinger scathinqIv crit;cisai .bo
| proposition to put into an snnronrGa3io,, i;II
| legislation that would prart icsIiv cbar}ar
a new company with oyerhsaI wires to
| compete to q large extent witb w -.
I t
a bill was no place for thai form Of ,seI.l
| lation especially as tho vart n 40 y.
he claimed, was ruled out of ,;,a Sans,e on
| a point of order e vi
Do II saunreIy, If Mt All
! ut is now proposed" he went on. "to
| bring it out again by some sort of legisla-
| tive legerdemain. If we are to incorporate
| d new electric light company let us do 1t
| IN the regular way. The proposition to
give these increased privileges to that new
| company Is now before Congress. l under
STAND that the bill, however, has not even
pten reported from the House committee.
whereas IN the Senate minority report
ma mas d peei nled against It, If anything is to
pe uoiie Iet IL De zone in a straightfor-
vail manly way, anu not in an utter dis
deSa a, ol the Iules or both houses. and
t sl. uisi esaiu or the rules OF equity and
JusI Ii "n i. should actuate Congress in
ueaiins Win an such corporations.
trlct Commissioners enterta;neI Tho ,io,.,,
a arnr,ir nae"s tnat l. no" hoi1, adverse to
Company. The Commissfonn,!s H., rev
to protect the existing company snd sajI
that it was bad policy to permit new com
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