Evening star., 1900-12-12
TWO PER CENT BONDS
ELEVEN CITIZENS ASSOCIATIONS
FAVOR ISSUE OF s1O,OOo,ooO.
Resolution Unanimously Adopted at
Meeting of Representatives
of the Bodies.

Representatives of eleven citizens asso-
Citations, authorized by their respective
hCdies to act upon the proposition which
embraces the issue of bonds to meet the eX-
pensc of necessary municipal improvements,
reached unanimous conclusion at meet
ing held last night at the office of Mr.. Leo
Simmons in the Kellogg building. Mr.. Will
ton j. Lambert presided and Mr.. T. A.
Harding secretary
A resolution was introduced by Chairman
Louis +. Shoemaker Of the executive COM
mittee, and after some discussion, was
adopted without a dissenting vote. 1t re-
cited that lit is a wel-known fact that
large amounts of private funds are seeking
Judlcious investment in and for the i'm
provement Of real estate in the District of
Columbia, and it Is also a well-known fact
that private improvements cannot be made
until the completion of necessary public
improvements. such as the judcious extern
sion, grading and regulating of certain
streets or necessary thoroughfares from the
city to the limits of the District, and the
construction of sewers, as well as ample
provision for water supply and electric
lights. 1t was further recited that as the
national capital is not only retarded in its
growth and development and the health
OF Its people impaired for want of these
puplc improvements, but it is also made
quately supplied with those advantages
which the governments Of other municipali-
Ties provide for the benefit of taxpayers
Such as bridges over the Potomac river and
RCck creek, trunk sewers east and west of
ROCK creek and in the northeastern section
OF the District; a municipal building and
a nome for the District government, and
Rcck Creek Park has remained unimproved
and our people have been deprived of its
use, although it cost more than a million
hac var,i iro,,p
slhle to properly regulate, repair or light
important highways, and many Of them
nave not even been widened to their full
width Of thirty-three feet, and it was be-
lleved to be necessary to urge the authori-
ties to observe the very apparent and ex-
listing fact that wherever these public I'M
proVements have been established private
improvements have invariably followed,
ana, further, that many private improve
ments nave been made where the people
are paying increased taxation and are suf-
ferlng for the public advantages heretofore
enumerated
2 Per Cents Favored.
After stating that the people have. for the
past two years, repeatedly, through the
medium of their various organizations, di-
rected the attention of the Commissioners
to the existing retarded condition Of af-
fairs In the District, and have heretofore
advocated the necessity of a reasonable
make such improvements the interests
OF the community demand, it was resolved
that 1t is utterly impossible to crafty the
present needs of this rapidly growing COM
mun1ty from current revenues, particularly
as these requirements have been allowed
to accumulate for several years. and that
therefore justice and necessity demand that
fund shall be realized by the issue of
bonds by authority of Congress, accord
ing to the organic act of 1873, in sufficient
amount to meet the present needs and en-
able the District to proceed with its ordi-
nate growth and development
1t was also resolved that such portion OF
the proceeds of bond issue as the Com
mlss1oners may recommend, or Congress
may declare, to be available for the terri
tory outside of the city limits shall be
proportioned by the Commissioners accord
ing to the taxable average and population
OF such section, and such expenditures shall
be as nearly as possible contemporaneols:
and it was further resolved that a bill be
introduced in Congress without delay pro-
VidinS for q bond issue of $40 600 900 to
run for period of thirty years, with inter-
est at the rate of per centum per annum
said amount and duration of said bonds
being stated as merely preliminary for the
purpose of bringing the matter to an is
sue, both being subject to change as sub
sequent estimates may show to be proper
Ihe concluding paragraph provided that
none OF the proceeds of said bonds be used
for the purpose Of acquiring land for the
extension of streets.
Bill to BE Prenared