Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-05-18
HOUSE DISTRICT COMMITTEE
Bills on the Calendar Taken Up for Consid-
Grafton.
Pension of Firemeu and Policemen
Taking Up Unused Trncks-Steam
Engineering aud Plumbing.

Having reported and passed through the
| House of Representatives forty-nine bills
| al this session of Congress relating to To-
| cal affairs, the House District committee
I Is preparing to ease away upon its faithful
| labcrs.
Next Monday will be District day in the
House, and it is proposed then to clear up
[ as many bills of Importance as possible,
| so that less time thereafter need be de-
| voted to District affairs.
With this object in view, the committee
devoted the greater part of today to going
| through its calendar and selecting meas
| uIes to be reported to the House next
Monday. There was a large attendance of
members of the committee, and full con-
slceration given the bills acted upon.
Policemen md Fircmen's Relief.
The policemen and firemen's relief bill
was favorably acted upon. The bill pro-
vides that any policeman or fireman in the
service of the District of Columbia who by
| Injury received or disease contracted in the
ine of his duty shall become SO perma-
| nently disabled to be DISCHARGED from;
service therefor, or having reached the age
! OF Sixty years, and having served as such
ponce 1or not less than twenty years co,f-
| Gnuousiy snail be retired by order of the
| commissioners, may, in the discretion OF
| the commissioners, be granted a pension
mol TO exceed sum equal to one fourth of
the salary paid him at the time of his dis
o.aise. PROVISION is made for the families
| OF deceased policemen or firemen
| hereafter the Commissioners shall deduct
| 81 sach month from the pay of each police
| man and fireman, to which shall be added
| any balance now remaining in the present
| police fund, and also all fines collected in
| the police courts Of the District to be
invested In United States or District of CO.
| lumbla bonds to be expended In pursuance
OF this law. In case the funds so held shall
not be sufficient in any year to meet the
GRATIS OF the same, then a sum sufficien. to
make up the deficit shall be taken from the
| fund of the District of Columbia derived
| from liquor licenses.
Unused Tracks Taken In.
| favorable report was made on Senate
| bill 014, to compel street railway companies
to. remove their tracks If they have not
| been used for sixty days. An amendment
was adopted to the bill providing that aft er
one year no horse cars shall run on the
| tracks OF any rapid-transit street railway
| company.
To Regulate Steam Engineering.
A favorable report was made on the
Commissioners bill blouse bill 9693) to reg
ulate steam engineering and the inspection
| Oh stationary steam engines and boilers in
| the District of Columbia
The Commissioners bill blouse 1920
| relative to the control of wharf property
! and certain public squares was favorably
reported. The bill vests in the Commission
| ers absolute control of the wharf property
| of the United States or the District of Co.
| lumba.
The committee took recess at noon until
l O'Clock, when it assembled again and re-
sumed consideration of business.
More Clerks Authorized.
| The War Department was given $50 900
| for the employment of such additional force
| of clerks, messengers, laborers and other
assistants as in the judgment of the Sec
rotary of War may be proper and neces-
sary to the prompt, efficient and accurate
dispatch of official business in the War De-
partment and it's bureaus, to be allotted
and Offices as the eXigencies of the existing
situation may demand.
The Navy Department was given one
stenographer at the rate of $50 per an
num-.
The Treasury Department was provided
for follows:
Office of auditor for the War Depart
mentor eight clerks of class four; seven
teen clerks of class three; ten clerks of
class two, and thirty clerks OF class one;
in all, $50, S66.32, or SO much thereof as may
be necessary.
Office Of auditor for the Navy Depart
mentor two clerks Of class three; three
clerks of class two; four clerks of class one;
six clerks at the rate Of $1,000 per an
mum each, and four clerks at the rate of
5000 each; in ali, s13.295.72, or so much
thereof as may be necessary.