The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-22
LEXINGTON RAILWAY BILL.
One Providing Rapid Transit Re-
ported 10 the Senate.

parted TO the Senate.
The Senate District Committee yes
terday satisfactorily disposed of the
long standing lexington rapid transit
problem, and there is now some hope
for improvement of the railway service
for that part of the city.
The committee reported to the Senate
a bill Which covers all the
desirable points of the many
that have been introduced, and
eompels the lexington to equip its
lines within the city limits with the I'M
foreground system within nine months
1t is also required to equip the Belt
line with the same system within nine
months after it secures possession of
that road. The bill authorizes the Eek
ington and Soldiers Home Railway
Company Il purchase or lease the Belt
Railway Company and the lines of the
Maryland and Washington Railway
Company, situated in the District or
Columbia, and of the Columbia ana
Maryland Railway Company, organized
under the laws of the State Of Mary
land. and connecting with the Mary
land and Washington Railway Com
pany; and upon the completion OF such
purchase or lease TO change its name to
pany.
The second section provides that the
company shall fully equip it's lines
within the city with an underground
electric system essentially similar to
the underground system now in use by
the Metropolitan Railroad Company,
and shall have cars regularly running
within nine months from the passage of
this act: and il shall equip the lines OF
the Belt Railway Company within the
city with the same system, in case such
line shall be purchased or leased, and
shall have ears regularly running on
said lines within nine months from the
completion of such purchase or lease.
The third section provides for the
issue Of bonds to cover the cost OF puf-
chase and change Of motive power.
Section four provides that the Eek
ington company shall give to the Com
missioners bond for 100000 conditioned
on the faithful performance, within
the time therein specified, of the re-
Quirements in section two.
Senators Gallinger, Mcmillan, Proc
tor Faulkner and Bacon were appoint
ed subcommittee on the highway
act OF the Board of Trade and the
other highway extension acts.
A favorable report was ordered on
the bin to extend the lines of the Cap
ital Traction Company. The proVis-
ions of this measure have heretofore
been published in The Times. The
changes made in committee include the
substitution Of Nineteenth street for
Virginia avenue in the extension in
the northwest below Pennsylvania av-
enue. The plan Of the extension of the
Fourteenth street line have been mod
flied SO as TO make the extension to
Howard avenue and there end for the
present The question of operating on
Park street will be settled by Congress
after the street has been improved.
The Columbia road also secures its
extension eastwardly. A favorable re-
port was made on the bill granting
that company. the right to extend its
road from the present eastern termi-
nus to the District line so as to con-
meet with Chesapeake Beach steam
road and The Benning's race track.
The bill to restore medical freedom"
IN the city OF Washington. was ordered
to be adversely reported. This bill
seeks TO repeal all the safeguards
thrown around the profession by Con-
gress during the past six or eight
years. o.
The suffrage bill was referred To a
subcommittee consisting of Messrs.
Wetmore, Baker, Bacon, Faulkner and
Gallinger.
The measure regulating negotiable
instruments in the District was refer
red to a subcommittee consisting Of
Messrs. Faulkner. Baker. and Bacon.
This is "A measure indorsed by the Bar
Association. and is intended to make
the law on the subject uniform with
those Of the States on negotiable in
str,luents