Evening star., 1897-02-01
DIsTRicTiN CONGRESS
Deficiency Shown in the lexington Rail-
waJ's Annual Report.
District Appropriation Bill t. Come
Up I'm the House Tomorrow
Other Measures.

The Vice President laid before the senate
today a report of the operations Of the
Eckir gton and Soldiers Home Railway
Company for the year 1896. OF the 1S,O4O
shares of stock the Central Trust Company
Of New York is shown tc own 1O.620
shares, the balance being held by about
14O Individuals.
Of SIS. 1924. The fixed charges consisted
of interest on bonds. s11.0ss; taxes. 49,
494-12, and interest on notes, s., S62.9S; to-
tai, $l9,345.10. The gross earnings were
s1o4DS.33, and the operating expenses,
23sSS.47. The total value of the road and
its equipment is given as S344.447.O2. Dur
ing the year there were 1905 $50 passen-
gers carried, of which 2.316,366 were reve-
nue. passengers, ,6SS,:IS2 free transfer pas
sepgers and 61,291 employees and others
travelling on passes. Bills payable. amount
ing to S11,221.6 and loans Of $S,U4 are
shown. OF receivers certificat tes s., 900 were
sold. Bills receivable amount to $2,Sy7.25
Against Liquor Selling in the Capitol.
Frances E. Willard. president of the Ma
tional w. c. T. u, has addressed letter
to Senator Quay. chairman of the Senate
committee on public buildings and grounds,
earnestly requesting that the bill pro-
hibiting saloons in the United States Capt.
tol may be speedily reported with favor to
the Senate. The country IS waiting to
know what action will be taken" she
writes. The sentiment against the sale of
intoxicants at our capitol buildings. and
especially at the national Capitol is strong.
1t is not question of the legaliziny of the
liquor traffic in general, but simply whether
it is right to have the temptation placed
continually before the lawmakers Of great
self-Goyerning nation"
Railways on the Aqueduct Bridge.
The Commissioners have forwarded to the
Senate committee on the District of Co
lurnbia a copy of resolution adopted at
the last meeting of the Georgetown Citi-
zens' Association, follows:
Whereas several electric car lines have
been built and are in operation in Virginia,
with their terminals at the south end of the
Aqueduct bridge, and
Whereas the main street railway lines
of the District have their terminals at the
District end of the bridge, at which point
there has been expended large sum in the
erection of union depot for the accommo-
datfon Of suburban roads, and
Whereas the travelling public is put to
great inconvenience by having no connec-
tion with these roads. be il
Resolved. That the Georgetown Citizens
Association earnestly recommends to the
Commissioners and Congress the early re-
construction of the Aqueduct bridge on
such lines will allow a connection be-
said bridge. in such manner will not in
terfere with its present USE
The Pharmacy Bill.
Mr.. James K. Redington. attorney for the
Washington Homeopathic Pharmacy, has
written to Mr.. Mcmillan. chairman of the
Senate committee on the District of Colum-
bia- asking that he be given a hearing on
the bill recently introduced in the Senate
and referred to the committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia, entitled "A bill to amend
an act to regulate the practice of pharmacy
in the District of Columbia" He says he
desires 10 appear in this connection on be-
Ealf and in the interests of the Washington
Homeopathic Pharmacy and generally in
behalf of the right of the homeopathic
school of medicine to recognition in the
proposed measure. He says he has no OBJ
lection to the passage of the bill in its
present form il SO amended as to protect
the legitimate and proper sale of homeo
pathic medicines and remedies in the Dis
| trict of Columbia.
| Appeal for the Constitutfon
Mr. Frye has laid before the Senate {
petition from the Daughters of the Amerf
| can Revolution of the District of Colum
bis asking that the frigata Constitutio.
be transferred to this city and kept as ;
| national relic.
Quit Claim to Certain Land.
| Mr. Swanson has introduced bill in tn
| House providing that all the right It'll
| and interest, whether legal or equitable
| of the United States of America in and t.
lots numbered IL and IA. in square No. 95.
in the city of Washington. be released an
quitciaimed to Thomas Yates, the presen
owner of the equitable title to said lots
and to his heirs and assigns forever: Pro
yided, That this act shall have the effec
only of quitclaim of all the right, title an
interest of the United States therein, bu
shall not affect adverse title to sal
lands. II any, nor create any liability o
the part of the United States