Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-14
Bills Considerably the Senate Com
II III
mittee.
CAPITAL TRACTION co. EXTENSION
Demand BY Friendsoof the Metro
poIrtan Line.
LIBRARY BILL INDORSED

Columbia met this morning and acted on a
number of important measures. There were
present at the meeting Senators Mcmillan,
chairman: Gallnger. Hansbrough. Proc
tor, Faulkner, Martin. Bacon. Stewart,
kenney and German, and Mr.. Charles
Moore. clerk of the committee.
The subcommittee on the Capital Trac-
ton Company's extension bill was ready to
report. but an unexpected opposition to the
subcommittee's report was developed in
the form of a determination on the part of
several senators to allow no extensions for
the Capital Traction Company unless the
Metropolitan Railway Company's desired
extensions were acted on at the same time
The subcommittee could only lay before
the committee it's bill, in which extensions
for the Capital Traction Company approved
by 1t were embodied, and the matter was
allowed to go over until the next meeting
of the committee.
Railway Dill Introduced.
Later this hill was introduced in the Sem
ate By it the Capital Traction Company
is required within one year from the ap-
prevail of the act to extend it's underground
electric railway lines as follows:
First, a loop beginning at the main
tracks of the said Capital Traction Com
pany. az or near the corner of B and LIST
streets northwest, thence by single track
on b street and New Jersey avenue to join
the existing line at the corner of G street
and New Jersey avenue: provided that but
one set Of tracks shall be maintained on
c street
Second. A loop beginning at the main
tracks of the said company at or near the
corner of Pennsylvania avenue and 18th
street northwest; then by double track
along 18th street to G street, and by sin
gle track along 18th street. New York ave
n mi H
26th street and G street to nth street;
also on 25th street from street to the
main lines of the said company on Penn
sy!vania avenue; provided that on G street
the cars shall be run from west to east
Third. a loop beginning at the present
terminus of the said company's lines on
14th street northwest thence by single
track along 14th street extended, Howard
avenue, 18th street extended (as laid down
in Chaplin Browns subdivison), and Park
street to 14th street: Provided. that the
lines authorized in this paragraph shall not
be constructed until 14th street extended
shall have been widened ten feet on the
east side thereof: nor until Park street,
beginning at a point 40 feet from the
west building line of 18th street and ex
tending to 17thostreet,f shall have been
widened to width of ftrty-two feet from
curb to curb. II = ;if
Fourth Beginning at the tracks of the
said company Onii Sth street east thence
easterly by double track on Pennsylvania
avenue to a terminus ito be fixed by the
Commissioners of the District of Columbia,
| near the westernlend Of the bridge cross
ing the Anacostia river: Provided, That the
extension in this paragraph provided for
shall be completed within two years from
the date of the passage of this act.
Fifth. Beginning at the main tracks on
Sth street southeast, thence westerly with
single track on II street TO the thirty foot
alley in the center of square 907 thence
south along said alley to NJ street; thence
| casterly along NJ street connecting with
q - &c NJ n f.f,tv,
sixth. A singetrack loop around square
440 the location of the tracks to be under
| the supervision of the Commissioners of
the District OF Columbia.
Seventh. A sirgle-trac ok loop around the
south one-half of square 504.
Free Public Library.
The bill to provide for the maintenance
of the free public library of the District of
Columbia was acted .on favorably. 1t was
amended so that it appropriates 5000 for
the library instead Of 1920, as provided
IN the bill as introduced in the Senate.
Later the bill was reported to the Senate.
Other Local Measures.
Senate bill to compel street railway COM
Ianies in the District Of Columbia to re-
move abandoned tracks was acted upon
favorably.
An adverse report was authorized on
Senate bill to require fagmen at rand
transit street railroad crossings. The com
mlttee thought the Commissioners now
nave ample power to regulate such mat
tiers.
Senate bill to ACQUIRE by purchase or
condemnation land and water rights at
the Great Falls of the Potomac was acted
on favc1ably. being amended to give the
United States entire ownership of sucn
rights instead Of making a joint ownership
between the United States and the Dis
trict Of Columbia.
Art Academy and Gallery.
Mr.. Perkins today introduced a bill in
the Senate to amend an act to authorize the
establishment of an academy and gallery of
art in the District of Columbia, approved
July %. 1894 The bill provides that the
said corporation shall nave, in addition to
the powers heretofore granted, power to
establish within the United States state
and international expositions. 1t was re-
ferred to the committee on the library,
Trucks on Aqueduct Bridge,
Mr.. Mcmillan today in the Senate made
an adverse report from the District COM
mittee on a resolution offered by Mr.. Pen
rose, providing that 1.-The electric railway
line from the Aqueduct bridge to Fort
Myer and Arlington may. with the permis-
sion and under the direction of the Secre-
tary of War, be extended across the Aque-
duct bridge"
To Buy Portrait of Sitting Bull.
Mr.. Jones of Arkansas today introduced
In the Senate a bill for the purchase of an
Gil portrait of Sitting Bull from DR.. T. A.
Bland, for $50.
Drainage Basin of the Potomac,
The Senate today agreed to the following
resolution offered by Mr.. Gallinger:
Resolved, That the Secretary of the In
terror be directed to transmit to the Senate
any information Which may be in the pos
of ba oP
survey regarding 1.-The photography of the
drainage basin of the Potomac, with par
ticular reference To the sources Of pollution
and the effect eli such pollution upon the
water supply of the cityt of Washington"