Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-22
Foundations to Party Walls.

The Commissioners have sent to Senator
Mcmillan, chairman of The Senate District
committee, the draft of a proposition to
extend over that part of the District out
side of the city the reSulat tions Low in
force in the city requiring that the fOunda-
! tions of party walls of buildings shall be
laid equally upon the lands Of the persons
between which such walls to be built
| The Commissioners go on to say in their
letter of tranSmittal:
I'm view of :he urgency of the need for
this legislation and of the improbability
that a new and Independent bill would have
any prospect of receiving favorable action
this session, the Commissioners of
opinion that the only prospect of securing
this legislation is TO add it to some bill
which has passed one of the houses Of
Congress and is likely to be passed by the
other. The Commissioners believe that
the bill tC regulate the business of storage
in the District, which passed the House
of Representatives February - 1896 and
| has been introduced il, the Senate, is suit
able for this purpose, and therefore recon-
mend that it be amended by the addition
of new section, as follows:
" That the terms, conditions and reGu-
lations in regard to party walls in the city
! OF Washington. in the District of Column
| bia, established by President George Wash
irston, October Il, 119i, be and the same
are hereby extended to the entire District
of Columbia. to have therein he same
force and effect in all respects as in the
/ city of Washington aforesaid. "
OF Interest to Accounting Officers.
An important feature of the legislative
bill which has been adopted by both houses
| is provision Of interest to all government
! accounting officers. 1t was inserted in the
| bill by the House committee on appropria-
! tions at the instance of Mr. Dockery, and
/ is as follows:
THE Secretary Of he Treasury shall. on
| the first Monday of January in each year,
make report to Congress of such officers
and administrative departments and offices
| of the government We're, respectively.
at any time during the last prece ling fiscal
| year delinquent in rendering or transmit
| ting accounts to the proper offices in Wash
| ington and the cause therefor, and in each
| case indicating whether the delinquency
| was waived, together with such officers,
including postmasters and officers of the
| Post Office Department, as were found
upon final settlement of their accounts to
| have been indebted to the government,
! with the amount of such Indebtedness In
| each case, and who at the date of making
| report, had failed to pay the same into the
! treasury of the United States"
Mr.. HicI<mnn's Widow.
! Senator German has introduced a reso-
| luton to pay Mrs. Mary J. Hickman
widow of Dr." Anthony Hickman, late an
| employe of the Senate, sum equal to six
| months pay.
Patent Pavement Controversy.
| Senator Stewart from the committee on
| claims, has made a favorable report on
the bill for the relief of the estate of Chas
! NJ. Roberts, appropriating $'9,o34.21 in full
| settlement of the findings of the Court of
| Claims The case grows of a controversy
| over the patent rights of certain forms of
| pavement laid in the Capitol grounds.
| Rent of the Minor school.
| Senator Ciallinger yesterday afternoon in
troduced amendment to the general
| deficiency bill appropriating $50 to pay
| the rent OF the Minor school building.
| District appropriation ELL.
! Senators Teller, Allison. Cullom, Cockrell
and German, the subcommittee on the Dis
| trict appropriations bill, met this morning
! for the first consideration of that mea sure
| They spent coupe of hours in its prelim-
| irary survey, but were unable to conclude
| the first examination of the bill at one sit
| ting. They hoped to have a session this
| afternoon, but in this they were disap-
| pointed and, as tomorrow has been pre-
| empted by another bill in committee, the
| District bill will not have another session of
| the subcommittee until Friday. The SUBJ
| committee work on the bill will proba bly,
! take all of next week, and it is likely that
| hearings the bill will not begin until
| Monday or Tuesday, if then.
Want the Medical Bill Passed.
Senator Gallinger today presented to the
Senate a memorial from the medical So
| cieties of the District of Columbia. urging
| the passage of the pending bill, H. r. 5731,
| regulating the practice of medicine in the
| District.
Senator Mcmillan today introduced a bill
to convey lot 10, in square 104l, in this city,
| to Charles G. Stott.
| Says Mckinley Will Win,
| o. K. Anderson of Superior Vic 10 :,