Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-27
DRAFT OF BOND BILL
Measure Presented for Consideration
Of District Commissioners.
WORK OF CITIZENS ASSOCIATIONS
Hearing Given Executive Com
mittee at the District Building.
DISPOSITION OF THE FUNDS

DISPOSITION OF THE FUNDS
The various citizens associations several
! weeks ago appointed a committee of three
members OF each organization to meet to-
| gether for the purpose Of discussing, and.
! ii possible, to draft a bill to be presented
| to Congress authorizing an issue of bonds
! by the District, the proceeds of the bonds
! to be devoted to the payment of expenses
| incident to the making of needed improve
| ments. Every association in the District,
| numbering fifteen, SO acted and at a meet
| ing of their representatives several weeks
| ago Mr. Wilton ]. Lambert of the Tako-
ma Park Citizens Association was elected
| chairman of the general committee. An eX-
! ecutive committee of which Mr.. Louis p.
| Shoemaker, president of the Brightwood
| Citizens Association, was made chairman,
was appointed with directions to draft the
! bill, such draft to be presented to the gen
eral committee for it's action.
The matter given very careful con-
| sideration by this executive committee and
! a bill vas drafted which received the unani-
| nous approval of the general committee.
| Today this proposed measure was presented
! 10 the District Commissioners by a sub
| u ~ +.
! the Ero0kland Citizens Association is
! chairman. the other members being Mr..
! Lambert Mr.. Shoemaker. Mr.. c. c. Lam
| caster. president of the Northwest Suburb
/ an Citizens Association. and MIR. Thomas
| Blagden of the Mt. Pleasant Citizens AS
| ISOLATION.
| In introducing Mr.. Keenan, to the Com
! missiunerS Mr. Lambert briefly rerited the
! steps 50 far taken in the matter, stating
! that it is hoped that the Commissioners
| may see their way clear to approve the bill
| as drafted
The Proposed Bill.
| Mr. Keenan,, in presenting the bill eX-
| planned that the members of the organiza
lions represented hope to see their repre-
sentatives and the Commissioners get to-
| gether upon the proposition and trust to
| receive their hearty corporation. He as
| sured the Commissioners that they will re-
| ceive the earnest support of the associa-
| tons. He then read the proposed bill,
| which is rs follows:
"A bill authorizing certain municipal i'm
| provements in the District of Columbia,
| and the anticipation Of the revenues of
said District on account thereof, and for
other purposes.
| BE it enacted by the Senate and House
| of Representatives of the United States of
| America in Congress assembled that the
! sum of -- million dollars is hereby APP
! prOpriated out of any moneys in the treas
ury of the United States not otherwise APP
propriated. and out of the revenues of the
| District Of Columbia, in equal parts, for
! the purposes of:
! First. Constructing a filtration reservoir
| for the Potomac water used in said Dis
| trict.
Second. Completing a system of sewage
| disposal in said District.
Third. Improving streets roads and
highways in said District.
Fourth. Bridging the Potomac river and
Rock creek; and
Fifth. Constructing q mun!cipal build
ing for Sa id District.
provided that moneys herein approprl-
ated shall be apDortioned among the
eral improvements hereinbefore named, as
follows Uhe amount in each to be
designated hereafter):
| For constructing filtration reservoir; for
completing sewage disposal system; for i'm
proving streets, roads and highways for
building bridges; for constructing municipal
building.
As to Expenditure.
provided further, that the moneys here
in appropriated for improving said streets,
reads and highways shall be expended within
the said District where necessary, accord
| ing to the taxable property values and
| population Of each of certain sections thereof
said sections to be determined by dividing
| the said District into four parts by lines
running north and south and east and west
| through the center of assessed valuation
| and population, and said expenditure shall
| be as nearly contemporaneOus as possible
Provided further, that the Commission
| ers of the said District when in their judg-
ment street, road or highway within said
District is of sufficient utility and impor-
| tance to the general public may open
| widen regulate and improve the same but
| none of the moneys herein appropriated
| shall be used for the purchase of land for
| the extension of streets, roads or high
| ways, excepting in cases where at least 10
per centum of the street area to be improved
| has been donated. No assessments for
benefit shall be levied upon any land ada
cent to and owned by the party donating
| the street area, and all parts or tracts nee
essary to be condemned as hereinbefore
provided shall be taken and paid for ac-
Cording to the provisions set out in the act
providing for the extension of 10Th street
as amended.
Denomination of Bonds.
| 'rThat to meet the portion of the expen-
diture contributed hereunder by the Dis
| trict of Columbia on account of said OBJ
jects, the treasurer of the United States.
as ex-offfcio commissioner of the sinking
fund of the District OF Columbia, is hereby
authorized and directed to cause bonds to
be prepared in the sum of -, in
denominations of $1,000 and 5000, to be
designated District of Columbia improve
ment bonds, bearing interest at the rate
OF 3 per centum per annum, payable half
yearly, on the list days of January and
July of each year. Such bonds shall be
redeemable after five years, and payable
| - years after the date of their issue.
| The principal and interest thereon shall be
| exempt from taxation by federal, state
municipal authority. The Secretary of the
| Treasury shall, upon the requisition Of the
| treasurer of the United States, advance to
| him from the revenues of the District OF
| Columbia the sum necessary to pay the
| interest said bonds the same may be
| due and payable and the faith of the
| United States is hereby pledged that the
| United States will, by appropriations from
| the revenues of the District of Columbia
| and by causing to be levied upon the prop
| erty within the said District such taxes as
| viii do so, create a sinking fund for the
| payment of the bonds a maturity And the
| bonds shall have set forth and expressed
| or their face the above specified conditions,
| and the principal and interest thereon shall
| be made payable at the treasury Of the
| United States. Said bonds shall be
| graved and printed at the expense of the
| District Of Columbia, shall be signed by the