Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-02-09
Southern Roads Want Better Facili-
ties for Entering This City.
BILL BEFORE VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
State Senator Mushbach is the
Patron Of the Measure.
FULL TEXT OF THE BILL
pecial Dispatch to The Evening Star.

| Mushbach's bill to incorporate the Wash.
| ington Terminal Railroad Company, which
| was introduced in the senate Saturday last
| will doubtless go through both houses OF
| the legislature. So far there has been nc
| opposition developed against the bill, which
| was considered yesterday afternoon by the
| senate committee on roads and internal
| navigation. The committee considered the
measure for only short time, and there
| were no railroad officials present to speak
| on the question far as is known. Sen
ator Mushbach, the patron of the measure
| explained the BILL setting forth its objects
| and benefits to the travelling public. He
| said the measure is designed to give the
| several railrc ads entering Washington, and
especially these from the south-the South
ern, Chesapeake and Ohio and Atlantic
| Coast Line-the privilege of having more
| convenient, effective and Independent facil-
| tiles for getting into Washington from the
| south and of having more convenient and
| satisfactory arrangements in the way OF
| a union railroad station.
For Elevated Terminals.
| Senator Mushbach said to a Star cores
pondent that sooner or later 1t would be
necessary for the railroads to establish ele-
waited terminal arrangements in Washing
| ton, so as to do away with the complicated
ing in the way of street crossings and the
| like.
1T would be more convenient and in
| every way more satisfactory to the travel
| ing public that this new terminal arrange
ment should be made" said Senator Mush-
| back. Instead of these roads being de-
| pendent upon the Pennsylvania, as at
present, to get into Washington. they could
all have more complete and much better
| plan, in which each road would be sepa-
" ould necessitate the enlar cement of the
Long bridge, and the construction of a
new system of tracks from Alexandria
county across to Washington. The sew
eral roads named ara all anxious to effect
| such an arrangement, and if the bill be-
| came a law, the work of constructing the
new terminal facilities would soon be COM
menced.'
The full text of the bill, as introduced in
| thu Senate and favorably reported by the
committee on roads and internal naviga-
| ton, is as follows:
Text of the Bill.
| To incorporate the Washington Terminal
Railroad Company, and to authorize said
corporation to acquire, by purchase, lease,
agreement or otherwise, and to own, op-
crate and dispose of, line lines Of rail-
road, stations, works and other property
connected Herewith, in the state of Vir-
ginia and the District of Columbia, includ-
ing the Long bridge across the Potomac
river; to issue stocks and bonds, and also
to own stocks and bonds of other corpora
tons using connecting with any rail-
road, station, works or property 1t may so
acquire; and to guaranty the bonds, stock,
covenants or undertakings Of any such cor
poration.
Whereas in order to improve the railroad
terminal and station facilities at the ma
tional capital. and thereby promote the
mora convenient and easy intercourse
Herewith of all sections of the country.
and especially of the south, it is deemed
advisable that the passenger station of the
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company.
In the city Of Washington, in the District
of Columbia, and the whole or such portion
as may be agreed on of the railroad be-
longing to the said company situated in
the District of Columbia, and southwark,
including the Long bridge across the Po-
tomac river; and also the whole or such
portion of the railroad Of the Washington
Southern Railway Company leading there
from toward the south as may be agreed
upon between the company hereby created
and the said Washington Southern Railway
Company, should be managed and operated
by an Independent agency; and the repre-
sentatives of the several lines Of railroad
from the south to Washington which now
use said station and the terminal railroads
connected Herewith, as well as the rep
resentatives of the several companies
owners respectively of said station and
terminal railroads, are DESTROYS of effect
ing such arrangement, which can be prac-
tically accomplished only through the pos
sess ion by such Independent corporation
Of the corporate powsrs needed therefor;
and
Whereas 1t is intended by this act to
create a corporation and invest 1t with the
requisite powers for such purpose: There
fore
The New Company.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly
of Virginia that Frank Thomson, Samuel
Spencer. M. E. Ingalls,, H. Walters, John
p. Green, Charles E. Pugh and Samuel
Rea, and such other persons as may be as
ISOLATED with them, and their successors,
be, and hereby are, created and constituted
body polite and corporate, under the
name and title of Washington Terminal
Railroad Company, and by that name and
title shall have and enjoy perpetual sue
cession, with power to sue and to be sued,
plead and be impleaded, in all courts of
law and equity; to have and use a common
seal, which may be altered or renewed at
pleasure; to enact and ordain bylaws and
prescribe all necessary rules and regula-
tons for the government Of the corpora
ton and the control and management of
its property, business and affairs, and from
time to time to add to, alter or amend the
same, may be found necessary or ad-
visable, and generally to have. possess and
franchises conferred and be subject to all
the general restrictions imposed by the
laws of this state upon corporations Of gen.
orally like character.
(Which may be partly preferred or partly
common stock) shall consist Of $4,000
shares Of the par value Of 800 each. which
may be increased from time to time as
the necessities Of the company may re-
Quire, and with the assent of q majority
in amount Of the stockholders thereof, evil
denced by resolution adopted by such ma
jority at any annual or general meeting of
said stockholders. Subscriptions to said
capital stock shall be payable either in
cash at such times and in such installments
as the directors shall designate by appro-
PIRATE resolution, or in real and personal
property suitable for its business at such
fair valuation as may be agreed upon be-
tween the directors and subscribers, who
are owners thereof. or by the rental or
price which may be agreed upon for the
possession and use of any railroad or other
property connected Herewith which the
said company shall acquire for its corpor-
ate purposes. whether the same be SO &C.
Quired by deed, lease or agreement and ar
rangement for the possession and use
thereof for its corporate purposes. Certil-
Gates representing capital stock shall he
executed in such form as the bylaws may
prescribe, shall be personal property and be
assignable by the holder or his attorney
duly constituted. on the books OF the COM