Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-13
Bills introduced of Interest to District
Citizens.
ELECTRIC LIGHT WIRES AND CONDUIFS
Fixing Hours Of Service of Laborers
on Public Works.
BRIG TWOOD RAILWAY

and conduits in the District of Columbia
was introduced in the Senate today by
Mr. Mcmillan. The bill provides:
That until Congress shall provide for 4
general subway system, and in order to
diminish the cutting of asphalt pavements,
both the electric lighting companies now
doing business in the District of Columbia
hereby authorized to lay service con-
duits to and into alleys of all blocks ad
jacent to the conduits that may be con-
trolled by such companies, and that house
connections may be established between
such street conduits. all of which are
hereby legalized, and all alley conduits
that may be constructed under authority
of this act: Provided, That no overhead
wires extending over public property shall
be used in making such connections, and
that all overhead electric wires now in
existence in or over any read, street. ave
nue., highway, park or reservation in the
city of Washington shall be placed in un-
derground conduits, which conduits shall
be located as closely as possible under
the overhead wires that are to be placed
underground and the length of such con-
duits shall be limited to that necessary for
the placing underground of such overhead
wires.
Provided. further, That such burying of
existing overhead electric wires in the city
of Washington shall be completed within
enc year from the passage of the act, and
that any wires which may not at the eN-
piration of such year be buried shall be
moved and it shall become the duty of the
Commissioners of the District of Columbia
to make such removal at the expense of
the respective companies owning such
wires.
Provided. further. That the overhead
wires now existing outside of the city of
Washington may be maintained and con-
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that extensions of such wires may be con-
structed under permits from the Commits
sioners Of the District of Columbia: Pro-
vided. That 10 such extensions shall be
permitted within the fire limits of the Dis
trict of Columbia
Provided. further. That the work herein
provided TO be done shall be under the d.
recton of the Commissioners of the Dis
trict of Columbia and by permit from them.
Provided. further, Except herein
above provided, no public streets. roads
avenues, highways, parks or reservations
shall be opened in the District of Columbia
for the laying therein of electric light con-
duitS or wires.
Hours of Labor.
Mr.. White of California today introduced
in the Senate bill to amend the act of
August 1, 1892. relative to the limitation
of the hours of daily services of laborers
and mechanics employed upon the public
works of the United States and of the Dis
triet of Columbia The bill provides: That
any office of the government of the United
States or of the District of Columbia, or
any contractor or subcontractor, CT if such
contractor or subcontractor be a corpora
tion or asSocia ton. then any officer, agent
or employe thereof whose duty, the duty
of any of whom it shall be to employ direct
or control any laborer or mechanic en-
ployed upon any of the public works of the
United States or of the District of Column
bia- who shall Intentionally violate any
provision of this act, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each and
every such ohense shall, upon conviction,
be punished by fine not to exceed 81 900
or by imprisonment for not more than six
months, or by both such fine and imprison-
ment, in the discretion of the court having
Jurisdiction thereof.
Tie term public works shall be con-
strued to include any article or property in
process of manufacture construction,
contracted for by or on behalf of the
United States, and upon which any pay
ment or payments, by way of installment
or otherwise, may be made by the United
States. its officers agents as the work
thereon progre sses, as well as to include
any and all property, real, personal or
mixed, the title or ownership whereof is
vested in the United States or of which the
United States has exclusive direction
control. Each and every day in which the
law OF which the act is amendatory shall
be violated shall constitute distinct and
separate offense and shall be punishable as
such; provided that nothing herein con-
tained shall affect any criminal proceed
ings brought for violation Of the act
which this is amendatory. pending at the
time of the passage thereof.
To Open the Museum Sunday.
The Vice President laid before the Senate
today a petition of a committee of the
Deutscher Central Verein, asking that
legislation be enacted to keep open the
National Museum, the Congressional Lii
brary and the botanical garden on Sundays
from l until . o clock pm.
A statue of Admiral Porter.
A bill appropriating $4,000 for the erec-
ton OF monument and statue to the late
Admiral David ID. Porter in the city Of
Washington was introduced in The Senate
today by MIR. Chandler. The bill vas ie-
ferred to the committee on navel affairs.
Brightwoo Railway Company.
Mr.. Gailinger today introduced in the
Senate a bill for the relief Of the Bright
wood Railway Company, which was re-
ferred 10 the committee on the District of
Columbia. 1t provides as follows:
The Brightwood Railway Company of
the District of Columbia shall not be re.
qured to pay any sum or sums in lieu of
taxes upon its personal property, as re-
uuired by the second section of its char
ter, and which may have hereafter ac-
crued. or which shall prior to the 1st of
January 1900, accrue hereunder. and from
and after that date shall only pay such
taxes upon its personal property may
be provided by law with reference to the
taxation of the personal property Of said
railway, and other street railway COM
panies in the District of Columbia belong
Ing to the same taxable class as the said
Brightwood Railway Company"
For District Suffrage,
Mr.. Mcmillan placed before the Senate
today a resolution of members of the Fed.
Grafton of Labor, Knights Of Labor Cen.
trail Labor Union and citizens of the Dis.
trict Of Columbia in regard to the gov.
ernment OF the District of Columbia. 7,
provides for popular elections in the Dis
trict of Columbia. and was lately pub
lished in The Star in full.
Heirs of Pom Ksvang Sob.
Also bill for the relief Of the heirs of ths
late Pom Kwang Sob, late minister to the
United States from Corea. The bill grants
quit claim from the United States to 10,
S5. in Barr & Sanner's subdivision, Coium.
bia Heights. and conveys the same to Ed.
ward Frazar. consul general OF Corea al
New York In trust for he heira of Dom