The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-24

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| secured purchaser who wishes to pay
| off the above mentioned trust. The at
| torneys further state that owing to dis
| solution of the syndicate, that is, the
death, removal, and dispersement of some
| of its members, no funds can be collected
to carry this property, and it is done by
| individual effort. They say that the
| taxes are in arrears with no available
| funds to meet them. Interest, they say, is
also overdue, and now that a purchaser
has been found they urge upon the Com
| missioners the desirability of selling The
| property before II is further involved.
/ The sale. they say, will discharge all the
| Indebtedness against the property.
Messrs. Fuller & Fuller are of the
| opinion that there will be little or no DIFF
fculty in reinvesting these funds, and
| they ask the Commissioner to allow them
! to take up the mortgage by. payment of
| the amount due, $3.50. AS the time Limit
| put to the transaction by the prospective
| purchaser is ten days, the attorneys ask
! for prompt action on the part OF the Com
| missioners.
!. T. Petty, the Auditor of the District.
| in reporting upon the application, informs
| the Commissioners that he sees no objec-
tion to granting the request, provided
that all costs of whatever character be
paid by the owners Of the said property.
will acquiesce in this view.
The Commissioners yesterday sent to
! Senator Mcmillan, Chairman OF the Senate
Committee on the District of Columbia. a
| letter relative to bill No. 1855, ITO au-
thorize advances from the Treasury of
the United States for the support of the
District of Columbia" The Commission
ers express the hope that the bill will not
|, be amended. as has been proposed, by
| limiting the time within which the ad-
vanees shall be made, or by requiring in
terest to be paid by the District on the
money advanced.
Senator Mcmillan is informed that the
advances from the general Treasury con-
templated by this bill are not for any new
or extraordinary project of Improvement
but for the general expenses OF the Dis
trict. The money to be advanced, the
Commissioners say. will be needed TO sup
ply deficiency prospective and temporary
in character, caused by the action OF Con-
gress in directing the payment OF over
$1,000, goo for street extensions entirely
out Of the revenues of the District 1t is
stated that the appropriation OF this
amount from the District revenues ends
with the present fiscal year, and is an esti-
mated deficiency Of si,133,s 1858. The Com
missioners say that provision must there
fore be made for the general expenses,
which the current revenues of the next
fiscal year would meet were 1t not for this
deficiency. Continuing, the letter reads:
AS advances may be required in tho
following fiscal year, they ought not TO be
limited to the fiscal year ending June 30,
1902. AS the advances are made necessary
by the action of Congress and not by any
act Of the District OF Columbia and as
they are for the general expenses, shared
alike by the United States and the District.
without which the government of the Dis
trict and all its services would be serl-
ously crippled, il is respectfully but ear
nestly submitted that thu proposed inter
est would be in effect a penalty upon the
District of Columbia which should not be
imposed
The East Washington Heights Citizens
Association recently sent request to the
Commissioners for a street lamp to be
erected at the water tank in TwInfng
City, midway between the lamp on Mime
sofa Avenue and the next lamp westward
on Pennsylvania Avenue.
In reporting upon the application,
Thomas Fisher, Inspector of Electric
Lighting, recommended that the request
be granted and the lamp placed as sug-
gested, at an estimated cost of Sc charge
able to the appropriation for street light
ing, 1901. The Commissioners have ap-
proved the recommendation.
The Commissioners of the District yes
terday informed J. Kujauski, Of Buffalo.
n. Y, in reply to his application for re-
ports of the affairs of the District for the
last fiscal year that the same would be
sent to him as soon as ready for dis
tribution.
By order of the Commissioners yester-
day a copy of the Annual Report of the
Engineer Department of the District of
Columbia was forwarded to w. W. Nc
Donald, assistant engineer, superintend-
ent of the department of streets, Havana,
Cuba.
The Commissioners yesterday appointed
Raymond T. Regain Inspector of Lumber
vice Samuel ]. Lowry, removed