The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-20
THE DISTRICT In CONGRESS
A Division i'm Committee Upon the
East Washington Line Bill.
The KidwelI Flats Park Measure
Is Fayored-Other Matters
of Local Interest.

4 The report of the House District Com
mittee on the East Washington Heights
! Railway bill, Senate 2S4o, made yester-
day, shows a division in the committee.
| A ma iority favor its passage with certain
| committee amendments. They assert that
] the incorporaters are Of good repute and
financial standing, and they are satisfied
! the road will be built promptly, Col
| Archibald Bliss is at the head Of the enter
prise.
The committee accepts as guarantee OF
good faith the fact that the company has
already spent $500, 900 on Improvements
The line. it is asserted. does not parallel
any existing street railway; it must issue
! free transfers to the Capital Traction and
I, Metropolitan lines. and will accommodate
! the villages of Twining, Good Hope and
! GARFIELD.
The only important amendments is TO per
init the Washington and Marlboro line to
! use the East Washington tracks and bridge
between Pennsylvania ayen1e and Fifteenth
street east and Pennsylvania avenue and
| Railroad avenue east. under proper restric-
tons.
The dissenting report is 10y Representa-
and Wellington. They point out that the
hill allows a private corporation to build
a bridge across the Eastern Branch, con-
| trary TO a settled and wise policy. Also
the Commissioners oppose it, and give as
reasons that they doubt the advisability OF
building another bridge below Benning,
and that the territory is already served by
the AnacostIa road and the Capitol and the
Marlboro roads are already chartered TO go
into that territory.
To grant this franchise. they state,
would authorize bridge which would re-
tard the reclaiming of the flats and prove
to be a national calamity.
No Comment is Made.
The report OF the same committee on s.
1907 to convert into n park the grounds
commonly known a. the Kidwel flats, lying
southwest Of the city, on the river front,
between the foot OF Seventeenth street
and Georgetown, makes no comment, but
asks the passage without amendment
No appropriation is made
The Hall Claim.
The tiI. s. 2649, to quit claim TO
Frances and Uriah Hall certain real es-
tate in this city, was ably reported to
the House today. II has already passed the
Senate. and will probably go through at
this session.
The Paving Of B Street.
Senator Faulkner today introduced an
amendment to the District appropriation
bin appropriating $4,000 for paving the
north half of b street, between Ninth
and Tenth streets northwest.
In the Interest OF Physicians
Senator GaIlinger introduced an amend
ment to the same bill to allow any legally
licensed physician in the city to attend
private patients where they occupy pay
rooms in any of the public hospitals.
The Sale of Poisons.
Mr.. Gallinger reported favorably House
bill regulating the sale of poison in the Dis
triCt.
Liquor in the Capitol.
Senator Mitchell presented petition from
citizens of Wisconsin praying for the pas
sage OF the age of consent bill; also for
the Morse bill to prevent the sale OF liquor
in the Capitol building. The petition reads
as follows:
THE undersigned would, out of the
depths Of their hearts, yearning over the
precious boys and girls Of this country and
of the District most gladly favor the
bills, first, raising the age OF consent,
and, second, the banishing Of the sale Of
liquor from the Capitol building.
The Connecticut Avenue Extension.
The Senate Committee on the District OF
Columbia this afternoon gave hearing to
a number of gentlemen, who are interested
in the extension Of Connecticut avenue. Sen
ator Stewart, Congressman Newlands and
Mr. C. B. Glover spoke in favor of making
the extension in straight line. W. II.
Moses and others opposed this, and sug-
gested making improvements in a DETECTED
line.