Evening star., 1897-01-12
DISTRICT IN CONGRESS
The Old Malone Site Again Brought Up
for Government Printing Office.
Bills Providing for It's Purchase In
troduced in Both Senate and
HOuse-Other Matters.

printing ONCE mas again been brought to
the attention of Congress. and it's sale to
the government suggested at price about
| one-half Of the amount asked for the land
| when 1t was the subject of a long con-
troversy several years ago. Mr.. Burrows
| introduced in the Senate today a bill, SIM
liar to the one introduced in the House.
providing for the purchase of the Malone
site. In speaking to Star reporter re-
| garding this bill, Mr.. Burrows said that he
had merely introduced 1t by request and
! knew nothing about it.
The Malone site. for which Sl50 and
more was asked when its purchase by the
government was being considered in Con-
gress several years ago, was sold under
is said, by Wilbur F. Nash for about 30
cents per square foot. In this way the
price at which 1t is offered to the govern
ment in the bill introduced today has been
reduced to 75 cents per square foot, pro-
vfding. of course, that the price named in
the bill would be acceptable 70 the owners
of the property. The Malone site contains
213,S S15 square feet.
The House Bill.
Mr.. Mines of Michigan has introduced a
bill In the House authorizing the Secretary
| of the Treasury to purchase for and in the
| name of the United States for the site of
| the government printing Office, by direct
HcSDtldlOil Win tHe ONHeTS, dl price HOt
exceeding T5 cents per square foot the
south half of square 673 containing about
213,S15 square feet. and bounded as follows:
Two hundred and seventy-three and one
fourth feet fronting on North Capitol street.
along the same from the intersection of l.
street Herewith to what is called Pierce
BabcOck street; thence east along the same,
extending through the said square for
1872 l.: feet to 1st street; thence south along
1st street for 273A feet to L street; thence
west along the same for 7S2 1-3 feet TO
point of beginning.
Failing to secure such described property
by negotiation with the owners or satis-
factory title thereto. as may be approved by
the Attorney General of the United States,
he is empowered and directed to secure the
same by condemnation proceedings, as pro-
vided in the act approved June %, 1880, to
authorize the acquisition of certain parcels
of real estate embraced in square numbered
BIB of the city of Washington to provide an
eligible site for city post office: Provided,
That the said south half of square 6I3 shall
be acquired at cost not exceeding the
money appropriated in the sundry civil ap-
preparation act approved August 30, 1880,
10 provide accommodations for the govern
ment printing Office, hereby made available
for the object of this act; and the treasurer
of the United States Is authorized and di-
rected, upon the requisition of the said Sec
retary, TO pay the purchase, or, INTO court,
the condemnation price of such property.
The Secretary of the Treasury, as soon as
such site shall be acquired, will cause the
supervising architect, with the advice of
the public printer, to prepare the requisite
plans for a government printing establish
ment, freproof all the way, which shall
be fully equal to the prompt and efficient
performance of the work now required by
the government and such plans to be SO
arranged to admit of progressive ex-
tensions, as the growing demand upon the
establishment may from time to time come
to require; and on account of the construc-
ton Of such portion of the buildings of such
plant as shall be deemed necessary for the
present $25o,0oo is hereby appropriated out
of any money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated.
Mr.. Martin in the Senate today made a
favorable report from the committee on the
District Of Columbia on House bill S726, to
| provide for the payment Of certain claims
back certificates. The bill is reported with
out amendment.
improvements I'm the Northeast.
MI. Mcmillan presented in the Senate to-
day a memorial from the Northeastern
Suburban Citizens Associat tion relative to
Improvements in the territory represented
by the association The association rep
resents the needs of Avalon Heights, East
Langdon, Langdon Park. Winthrop Heights
and adjacent territory. The memorial asks
that items Of the appropriation bill for the
District recommended by the Commission
ers allowing for grading and grayeling
22d and 24th streets, Langdon, $4,000: grad
Ing anu regulating street, IToH1
18th street to Brentwood road, $5,O00. and
for the construction Of suburban sewers,
$17O0O0. be favorably passed upon by Con-
gress. The memorial states that the para
graph relating to the improvement of I'D
and oath streets passed the House of
Representatives during the last session Of
Congress, but was lost in conference. 1t
states that oath street is the only street by
which residents of East Langdon can reach
in a. direct route their sta tion. post Office
lodge room and the Episcopal Church at
that place. Twenty-secOnd street, Ii says,
is the thoroughfare of that section leading
to the east and to the west. They ask tha;
the appropriation for the improvement of
Emporia street be made to improve that
street, from 18th to 10th street. instead Of
from 18th to Brentwood road, which
change, they say, will cause no increase of
expense The memorial recites the great
necessities Of the section represented
by the association for these Improvements,
and says that a better sewerage system is
greatly needed, as there are not less than
forty-three houses in that section the sew
age of which empties into an uncovered
stream. The memorial also indorses the
Faulkner bill. which appropriates $4,000
for the grading of Rhode Island avenue
from 4th to 18th streets northeast.
Increase Of Pay Asked.
Mr.. John NJ. Langston has submitted a
memorial to the appropriations committees
praying an increase of salary of from $40
a month to $50 a month"; the case of the
laborers and janitors serving the local
government at the several police stations
of the District. The memorial recites that
the janitors are engaged in actual service
twelve hours a day every day Of the week.
including Sundays and holidays. They are
required to do all the ordinary menial and
general work of the station, keep the sta
lion houses in a good sanitary and health
full condition, wait upon the prisoners, and
no one of these laborers Is permitted to
absent himself from his employment with
out supplying his place with substitute
to discharge his duties during his absefce
During the past five or ten years addi-
tions have been made to the daily services
of the janitors. but there has been no in
crease in the compensation, and 1t is now
inadequate.
The Market Company's Charter.
Mr.. Pearson has introduced bill IN the
House providing that wherever the city of
Washington is named in the act to in
corporate the Washington Market Com
pany, approved May %, 1870, the words
.'the District Of Columbia" ehall be SUBJ
stituted therefor, and all powers now ex-
for Axx