Evening star., 1900-05-09
LOCAL LtGa STATION
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BILLS FAyORABLY sACTED ON By
THE HOUSE DrsfR1qT COMMITTEE.
Permission to Lay conduits in the
streets-Reformi schsol Act Amend-
ments-Other Measures.


ments-other Measures.
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The House District co1fmittee held a ses-
sion this morning and acted upon a number
of bills Next Monday will be District day
in the House and a! calendar of business is
being prepared.
Senate bill 124 was favorably reported.
This bill provides that the Commissioners
of the District of Columbia be authorized
to grant permission to lay conduits for the
Transmission of electric power and pipes for
the transmission of steam In alleys in the
District of Columbia, under the following
conditions: 's@.
The conduts or pipes shall be laid entire
ly within square or block, and shall not
cross or enter any avenue, street or high
way. The conduits and pipes shall be To-
Gated as directed by the Commissioners and
be laid under their inspection: and the cost
of such inspection, together with the cost
of replacing all improved pavements dis
turbed in connection with the work, shall
be paid in advance by the person desiring
to lay the conduitS or steam pipes
The conduits or pipes shall be used only
to connect the premises owned and operated
by the permittee. and no power or steam
shall be supplied therefrom for any other
purpose than the use of the permittee The
permittee shall not rent the conduit or pipe
or any portion thereof.
On violation of any of the above provi-
sions or restrictions, the Commissioners
shall require the permittee, after thirty
days notice. to abandon the use of the CON
duits or pipes and remove them from the
and if the permittee shall neglect or refuse
to remove the conduits or pipes and place
the surface of the alley in good condition
within sixty days after the date of the
notice, the permittee shall be deemed guilty
of msdemeanor, and shall be liable to a
fine of $40 for each and every day that the
conduits or pipes are allowed to remain in
the alley, or the alley shall remain out of
repair, which fine shall be recovered in the
Police Court of the District.
To Close Certain Alleys.
A favorable report was also made on
House bill 9S27, providing that the Com
missioners of the District Of Columbia be
authorized and directed to abandon and
close all the alleys in block numbered three
of the Walbridge subdivision of Ingleside,
in the county of Washington; the land in
the alleys to revert to the present owners
Of the block.
Also favorable report on House bill
1926, which provides as follows:
That hereafter, beginning with the fiscal
year commencing July 1, 1900 the whole
tax real and personal property in the
District Of Columbia shall be due and pay
able in the month of May of each year;
and If the tax upon real and personal prop
erty shall not be paid before the 1st day of
June in each year the same thereupon shall
be in arrears and delinquent, and there shall
then be added to be collected with the tax,
penalty of l per centum upon the amount
thereof and like penalty on the first day
of each succeeding month until payment
of the tax and penalty; and the whole to-
gether shall constitute the delinquent tax,
to be dealt with and collected in the man
ner now provided by law: Provided, That
the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized
and directed to advance to the disbursing
officer of the District of Columbia, in the
manner now prescribed by law, out of any
money in the treasury of the United States
not otherwise appropriated; such sums as
may be necessary from time to time to
meet the general expenses of said District,
and to reimburse the treasury for the one
half advances payable by said District out
of the taxes and revenues collected, as
herein provided for.
Reinstatement of Water Main Tax.
A favorable report was directed to be
made on House bill s49S, to amend the act
for the reaSsessment of water main taxes
This bill is to be amended in several par
1icuiars and whipped into shape by Mr.
Cowherd before being reported to the
House.
A favorable report was made on Senate
bill 2JS1, to incorporate the National White
Cross.
The Reform School.
The committee also favorably reported
Senate bill 1880, relating to the reform
school of the District. The bill provides as
follows: That sections eight and fifteen Of
the act entitled IAN act revising and
amending the various acts establishing and
relating to the reform school of the District
of Columbia, approved May 3, 1876, be-
and they are hereby, amended as follows:
In section eight of the act line one, strike
out the word sixteen and insert the word
Seventeen that the limit of the age
of commitment shall be raised from six
teen years to seventeen years.
Amend section fifteen SO that 1t shall read
as follows:
Section Is. That the board of trustees
may make such bylaws, rules and regu-
lationS for their own government and that
of the institution, its officers, employees and
inmates the employment, discipline, in
struction, education, removal and absolute,
committed to the school, they may deem
necessary and proper, and as are not con-
trary to the constitution and to the laws of
the District of Columbia"
Flour Inspection.
A favora BILE report was also made on Sem
ate bill 404S, providing as follows: That Sec
ton six of the act entitled IAN act regu-
lating the inspection of flour in the District
of Columbia" approved December 2l 1893.
be amended by striking out the las; clause
of said section and inserting in lieu there
of the following:
And no barrel. half barrel or sack of
flour not examined and branded by the in
spector as aforesaid shall be sold within
the District under fine of 81 for each and
every BARREL half barrel, or sack, to be
collected as other fines and penalties are