Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-30
DISTRICT IN CONGRESS S
Annual Report Of the Capital Traction
Railway Company Submitted.
Bill to Increase the Salaries of the
District Supreme Court
Justices.

The annual report Of the CAPITAL Trac-
tion Company for 1893 was submitted to
the House today. The receipts were as fol-
lows: From passengers, 81, 100, GAS. %; from
mail, $2,s74.s2; freight, $9444O; bills pay
able. $4,000; advertising, $g,999.96; rents
$6.415.3s; miscellaneous, So, 10; track
rentals $16666.
The disbursements were as follows: Main
tenance of way and structure $50, ,496 OIL !;
maintenance of equipment, $66, ,97s 4S; op-
GRAFTON Of power plant. SAC. .3s3. Il; car ser
vice, including wages of conductors and
motormen amounting to $21O, 1860, $685.
9SS.62; general expenses, S119,37S97; new
cars and loops, SOS 521 So; taxes, $47, ,ss1 81;
tax for special policemen, $7.441.34; inter-
est. S39, ,4S5. .02; dividends $3.50 $50 80: tickets
redeemed, $6s.C4. Balance, December 81
1899, $35,547.S0.
During the year 12S persons were injured
on the line. Tho company has a funded
debt OF Sl.O00,OO0 and a fioaling debt of
SSO,oOo. The total cost of road, real es-
tate and equipment was $13,0SO,OOO. The
number OF passengers carried in 1899 was
% 199, ,325.
Increasing Justices' Salaries,
Mr.. Jenkins has introduced a bill in the
House providing that the chief justice of
the Court Of Appeals nf the District of Co
lumbia shall have an annual salary of
$500, and each Of the associate justices
OF that court an annual salary of $1,000;
and that the chief justice and associate
Justices of the Supreme Court Of the Dis
tr1ct shall each receive an annual salary of
81 500, one-half payable from the revenues
OF the District
A Hall of Records Site.
Mr.. Bromwell has introduced in the
House a bill Oh. r. 1860 providing "that
the Secretaries Of State, War and Navy be
directed to acquire, for the purposes and in
the manner herinafter- provided. the real
estate, with the improvements thereon, en-
braced in square numbered 169, in the city
of Washington, and which is bounded on
the north by @ street, on the east by 18th
street, on the south by the Winder building
property, as shown by the diagram, and on
the west by an alley, and containing 80, ,41S
square feet of ground; and the sum of
$2i3,000 or so much thereof as may be nee
es. airy, is appropriated out of any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,
to pay for the same; and for the purpose
of preparing for immediate use the existing
buildings thereon for the preservation and
storage of papers, documents, and other
records which have accumulated in the
three departments mentioned and are
needed only for occasional use the sum of
$4,000 is Appropriated
'The Secretaries are authorized and
directed to acquire the property by negotfa-
ton. so far as such property may be ac-
quired and title thereto, secured at price
not above the fair relative value of the
same, or by condemnation proceedings, as
provided in the act approved June 25 1890,
to provide an eligible site for a city post
office, with amendments thereto approved
August 30, 1890
THAT whenever and as title to the sew
eral parcels of such real estate, with i'm
provements thereon, shall be acquired as
aforesaid. and the same shall be ready FOR
delivery and the sufficiency thereof shall be
certified by the Attorney General Of the
United States, or whenever, by condemna
ton Of any parcel the fair value shall be
ascertained, the treasurer of the United
States is authorized and directed, upon the
requisition of the Secretaries, to pay the
purchase price of such property, parcel by
parcel, and to pay into court the condemna-
ton price, parcel by parcel, of all the prop
erty that may be condemned"