The times., 1899-12-20
BILLS OF LOCAL INTEREST
Measures introduced by Senators
and Representatives.
4 New Bureau Proposed for the AE-
riculturRI Department "A Monu-
Arlington - Better Quarters for
the Law Library of Congress.

Several measures Of local interest were
introduced in Congress yesterday. Repre-
sentative Babcock of Wisconsin offered a
bill providing for the establishment of a
food bureau in the Department of Agri-
culture and for preventing the adulteration
and misbranding of foods in the District Of
Columbia and the Territories.
The bill recites that for the purpose OF
collecting facts with reference to the man
ufacture and sale of foods and for the pur-
pose of protecting the commerce in food
stufs between the several States and in
the District of Columbia and the Terrific
ries and foreign countries there shall be
+ created in the Department of Agriculture
food bureau, the head of which shall be
termed Commissioner of Foods, who shall
be appointed by the President for a term
of four years, and whose salary shall be
$1,000 year. The Commissioner shall ap-
point a chief chemist. whose salary is fixed
at $500 a year. He is also authorized to
employ such chemists, inspectors, CLERKS,
laborers, and other employees as may be
needed to carry out the provisions of the
act.
Senator Mcmillan presented a bill the
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missioners Of the District Of Columbia to
extend and open Seventeenth Street with
a width of ninety feet from Florida Avenue
| northerly to its intersection with Seven
! teenth Street, as now established in the
! Walbridge subdivision of Ingleside, con-
! Meeting Seventeenth Street with Central
Avenue and widening Central Avenue on
/ the east side to Columbia road The bill
/ contains the usual provisions concerning
/ fior, ba nd of
/ damages
Senator Mason of Illinois introduced a
/ bill providing thar the salary of the post
master at Washington shall be $4,000 d
/ year, beginning from July l, 1898.
As the result OF resolution forwarded
/ by Maj. Gen. Granville NJ. Dodge, PIesi-
/ dent OF the Society of the Army OF the Ten
nessee, Senator Hawlsy of ConnecticGt has
| introduced a bill asking for an agpropria-
| tion of 81 GOO for the purpose OF construct
! ing monument over the grave of Joseph
Anthony Mower at Arlington. In his
| speech on the resolution before the society
/ General Dodge said:
1T is too late in the day now to ask sol
/ diers to raise monuments to their dead
/ Comrades-it is no longer their duty. But
! it is the duty Of the Government to per
| petuate the memory of the brave men who
/ have died in its defence and 1 heartily con
) GhA III TIC ItEOlullOu tudl 1U4lBl toS BS
/ asked to erect a monument over the grave
/ of General Mower. He was one of the
! bTavest men that ever devoted his life L
the military service OF his country, and his
! resting place in the National Cemetery
| should bear tribute to his bravery and pa
triOtism.
A resolution has been introduced by Sen
ator HOar OF Massachusetts to author the
Architect OF the Capitol to procure mar
| bic pedestal for the bust or Charles Sum
ner. which is situated near the entrance L
the Senate gallery. The bust was fur
nished by the Legislature of the State o
/ Massachusetts. and it was the original in
! teutiOn 10 have it provided with msrbi,
/ pedestal, but by some oversight this was
not done An appropriation of $3.50 il
asked for from the contingent fund of tn:
Senate.
The Speaker Of tbs House OF Representa-
tives yesterday appointed Messrs. Lowering
/ of Massachusetts. Cousins of Iowa Clark
OF New Hampshire, Cummings of New
York. and Gaines OF Tennessee as a com
mittse to represent the House at the Un
yelling OF the statue of Daniel Webste
which stands at the intersection Of Rhod
Island and Massachusetts Avenues, ant
which has been presented 10 the city o
Washington by Sdlson Hutchins.
Senator McComas introduced bill &
extend Fifth Street from Blair Road T.
Magnolia Avenue, In Takoma.
Senator Mcmillan presented bill for tn
purchase OF school site at BroOkland
A petition was presented by Senate
Chandler suggesting that better quarter
be provided at the Capitol for the Law Ii
brary CT Congress. The petition, which i
signed by fifty prominent lawyers, follows
"A visit to the present room will convinc
anyone how mserably deficient is the spac
assigned 20 this. the greatest law library il
the world. There is no proper ventilation
or light. and no accommodation whateye
for access to the books and work Of counse
preparing a case for argument before tn
Supreme Court of the United States. Gen
tIeman from a distance have no convent
ence for consulting each other or carry
ing on a conversation. The library is close
at p. m. It ought to be kept open unit
10 p. II"