Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-24
DISTRICT IN CONGRESS
Proposition to Settle Outstanding Certi6-
Gates Of the Board of Audit.
Necessity of the Reclamation OF the
Anacostin Flats-Suburban
Railway Bill.

Mr.. Brumm Of Pennsylvania has intro
duced q bill in the House providing that
the Commissioners of the District OF Co
lumbia and their successors in Office be
authorized and directed to receive and
audit all outstanding certificates of in.
debtedness issued by the auditor or treas
urer of the late board Of public works or
the late board of audit of the District Of
Columbia, for the redemption of which
there is no existing law, and to pay to the
person or persons found entitled thereto
the amounts respectively found due them
on such certificates. including interest
thereon at the rate of 3 65-1O0 per centun
per annum to the date of such redemption:
Provided, That interest on all certificates,
the redemption CT which is herein author
lied, shall cease at the expiration of sixty
days from the passage of this act.
Monument to Albert Pike.
The House committee on the library has
favorably reported the House joint resolu-
ton 17s, granting permission fer the cree
ton of a monument statue in the city
of Washington in honor Of the late Albert
Pike. The report says:
THE resolution is based upon an action
of the supreme council of the Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry
had at a recent meeting of that body. A
Gil to erect monument statue to the
memory of Albert Pike. He had been
grand commander of the rite. He was
distinguished citizen Of the United States,
an able lawyer and statesman, an accom-
piished poet and a brave soldier.
1T is proposed that the monument shall
| not cost less than $4,000, and shall be
pl esented' by the supreme council to the
United States. Five thousand dollars were
contributed for this purpose by the SUI
preme council, and steps have been taken
| to raise the remainder of the necessary
fund. The resolution herewith reported
caIries no appropriation, 1t being the pur-
pose of the supreme council to defray al
expenses connected with the construction
and erection of the statue.
The Anacostin Flats.
The report from the House District COM
mittee on Senate joint resolution No. %,
relating to the survey for the reclamation
of the Anacost:a flats, says:
THE reclamation Of the Anacostia flats is
Indispensable to the health of very con-
siderable portion of the population of the
District of Columbia. The work is made
the more necessary because thousands of
people who cannot help themselves are
forced to live where the emanations from
these flats cause widespread disease and
frequent deaths. OF all the improvements
needed for the health and comfort OF the
people of the District of Columbia, this
should come first"
Suburban Railway.
Mr.. Richardson of Tennessee has intro
duced a bill in the House which provides
as follows:
That an act entitled An act to incor-
po.rate the District of Columbia Suburban
Railway Company approved July 5. 1852,
be amended so as to read:
Section 1. That Richard X. Cralle,
Charles e. Creecy, John T. Mitchell, M. F.
Norris L. G. Hine, Gilbert Meyer, s. L.
Mudd Robert A. Howard, w. I. Hill, John
w. Chiloress, J. F. Kenney. D. w. Classic.
Harry Barton. Philemon w. Chew, T. G.
Daniel, G. P. Davis, Jere Johnson and L. G.
Lcomis, and their associates, successors
and assigns. are hereby created a body
1.-The District Of Columbia Suburban Rail-
way Company"
The company Is authorized to construct
a single or double track railway. as may
be approved by the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia, with the necessary
switches, turn-outs and other mechanical
devices. in the District Of Columbia,
through and along the following routes:
Beginning on the north side IF Lincoln
Park at 18th street east. thence north on
thence continuing northward on 18th street
extended to 18th street extended, thence
by 10Th street extended to a point 500 feet
north of New York avenue, thence by
line parallel to New York avenue to La
fayette avenue, thence by Lafayette ave-
oath street and Frankfort street to the
Bladensburg road, thence northerly along
the Bladensburg road to the District line,
the line of the railroad on the BlaGensburg
road to be located under the direction of
the District Commissioners. Underground
electricity within the city and overhead
trolley in the suburbs shall be the motive
power.