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The Washington times., 1902-02-02
DISTRICT PROGRAMME
FOR LEGISLATION
Congress to Be Asked for a Loan From the
Government, for a Readustment of the
Assessments on Real Estate
4 personal tax law.

4 personal tax law.
4 readjusimont Of the assessments on
real estate.
= lean from the United States to the
District Of Columbia.
This. briefly stated is the programme
that the friends OF the District il Con
gress will discuss and work into shape
for legislation during the coming week
and later.
Senators Mcmillan, Allison, and Cullom
and Representatives Ba5cock, Cannon, and
McCleary are among those particularly
interested in the matter. 4 meeting has
been called, at which all of these and
probably others will be present. for an
carly day during the present week. The
general subject of the financial condi-
tion of the District and of its needs will
he taken up and canvassed thoroughly. the
discussion being along the lines suggested.
Loan Should BE Made First.
1t is not possible to state with much
accuracy the relative Importance of the
three subjects named in the minds OF
Congress. as there is some difference of
opinion. 1t is understood that some of
the gentlemen mentioned believe that the
loan should be made first of all, and that
the question of a personal tax and of
larger revenues from the real estate tax
alton should be a matter of secondary i'm
portance.
On the other hand ii is known that
there is a disposition in some quarters to
insist on the passage OF the personal tax
law and a provision for larger real estate
revenue that will make possible Il sinking
frrd before Congress takes any step in
the matter of n loan.
The opinion held by more than one
member of Congress is that the people
Of the District arc paying too little taxes.
il is said that they have gotten so used
TO depending on Congress that they are
now unwilling to make any exertion or
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INVASION OF LUMBERMEN.
;srt the Capital After Attending

VISIT the Capital After Attending
Convention in Kansas City.
The lumbermen of Kansas, Missouri,
and contiguous territory, invaded Wash
ington yesterday. They came in six Pull
man coaches over the Chesapeake and
Ohio, with their wives and daughters, and
a finelooking, prosperous appearing as
semblage they made.
Mr.. H. A. Gorsuch, secretary of the
Lumbermens Association, said that the
jaunt here came as a finale to the annual
convention just held in Kansas City, and
that it was purely pleasure trip. Most
of the members will spend the entire time
in Washington, but a few will so to New
York for a brief stay. The return home
is scheduled for next Friday.
A majority of the visitors are guests OF
the Ebbitt
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TO CONFIRM JUDGE ANDERSON.
Favorable Action by Senate Ex-
pccted Tomorrow or Tuesday.

Justice Thomas H. Anderson. of the
District Supreme COURT, in all probability
will be confirmed by the Senate tomorrow
or Tuesday.
The Senate Judiciary Committee yes
terday decided to report favorably on his
nomination, and it is not believed that
the Senate will care to go into the mat
ter further.
Members of the committee, Of course,
refuse to discuss the matter. as it is OK
ecutive business, but it is understood that
their decision was that the charges
against Judge Anderson are not sufficient
ly important to warrant an adverse re-
port.
1t was asserted by the people who made
objection to Judge Anderson that he was
connected with "A local financial institu-
tion which failed recently with its affairs
in very unsatisfactory condition. II is
understood that Judge Anderson stated
that lie had resigned from the institution
SCme years ago.
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sustain any additional burdens FOR the
purpose OF securing Improvements
senator CIllom's recent advice to tho
District that il can walk or run as il
sees fit is apparently a suggestion along
the same line. Senator Cullom is willing
that the Greater Washington should be
built and beautified, hut 1T the same time
he believes that the District should do its
share in paying for the improvements,
and. first of all, show a disposition to
do so.
Ii is suggested by those holding such
views that the opposition to the personal
tax. which has so generally developed, is
the best possible illustration of their
point They argue that almost every city
and town in the country has a personal
tax law.
Another matter regarding which there
is much strong feeling against the pres
ent system is the assessments on real es
tate. 1t is said to be the belief of the
Senate District Committee that the as
sessments under which taxes are now col
lected are most inequitable too large in
a few instances, but too small in many.
Instances Cited.
Instances of small residence properties
being assessed at two-thirds their value
while business properties do not pay
taxes on tenth OF their value, ere cited
in many localities. This, il is argued,
should be remedied in radical and thor
ough way by the Assessor in the figures
which will go into effect with the coming
fiscal year.
Despite this disposition to require the
District to pay more taxes, it cannot be
doubted that Congress is strongly in ia
vcr of the Greater Washington plans and
of the first steps toward the new city
as soon as possible. The loan which is
to be given the District as the pleasant
part of the financial programme of Con-
eress will probably be at least $4,000, coo.
il is said. 1t is thought that a bill au-
'thorizing such loan may be introduced
in the near future, as soon as the per-
sonal tax bill has been disposed of.
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their property through confiscation dur
ing the war and had never been able to
recover compensation. In such States as
Missouri and Virginia and other border
States, he said. it was difficult task for
a man TO remain loyal; it cost him some
thing TO do So yet they had more trouble
than any others in recovering for thei-
property.
Hurricanes and storms would come. he
declared, and he saw no reason why the
Government should be held responsible
for them, and pay-~ontractors for the
losses sustained by reason of them.
The precedent once established. every
contractor who had an old shed blown
over by the wind would come to Con-
gress and ask for compensation. There
was no sense in il, he said
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Movements of NayuI Vessels

The Rainbow, recently converted at
the New York navy yard into q flagship
to be stationed at Cavite, arrived at
Gibraltar today on her way TO the Philip
pines.
The European squadron consisting OF
the cruiser Chicago Flagship of Rear
Admiral CromwelD, the cruiser Albany
and the gunboat Nashville, sailed today
from Piraeus. Greece, for Palermo, Italy
Admiral Cromwell will retire from active
service on February O.
The training ship Monongahela has ar
rived at st. Thomas. The training ship
Buffalo has sailed from Guantanamo for
Kingston, Jamaica.
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COTTON MEN EXPELLED.
Firm of II. & {. Newman Barred
From New Orleans Exchange.

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. Henry New
man. president, and Harris Hyman, vice
president of the commission house of II.
G. C. Newman, one of the largest cotton
houses in the South, were today expelled
from the New Orleans Cotton Exchange.
The charge was made against the firm
OF H. & C. Newman that its return of
account sales TO John A. Buckner. owner
of a large amount of the cotton en-
trusted to the firm, gave lower price
than the cotton was actually sold for.
The difference between the price at
which the cotton was sold and that at
which it was settled for was 1Ac per
pound.
compromise was made by the firm
with Colonel Buckner, in which he was
given 5000 as a settlement Of the diff
ference. The transaction was reported
to the Cotton Exchange, which after a
long examination of the matter found the
charges sustained, and expelled Messrs.
Newman and Hyman.
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MR.. CLARK'S CURTAIN LECTURE.
Says Loyal Citizens Have Trouble
Collecting just Claims.

Representative Champ Clark delivered
the Republicans in the House sort of
curtain lecture Friday while the matter
Of private claims was under considera-
tion.
Among the bills under consideration
was one to appropriate $4,000 to REIN
turse a Government contractor who had
suffered loss by reason of a hurricane
while working upon a Government con-
tract. Mr.. Clark charged the Republicans
with 'collusion and g-rolling' among
themselves to get their claims through
Congress by a system of you support
mine and I'll support yours"
The committee, in its recommendations.
he said, made Determinations. ard it was
almost an impossible thing for man in
the border States to get a just claim
through the House. He cited several in
stances where loyal Union men had lost
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SOMETHING In THIS NAME.
"WnsiinEton HALLWAY and Electric
Company" on Record.

A certificate OF the change of name of
the Washington and Great Falls Electric
Railway Company to the Washington
Railway and Electric Company" was
placed on file yesterday in the Office of
the Recorder of Deeds.
The petition asking for the change of
name is signed by Messrs. f. W. Young.
Allan L. McDermott. 1715 II Street north
west, George II. Harries. and Oscar T.
Crosby, members OF the board OF direc
tors.
The change of name is significant. as it
is understood that this is the company
that will take over all the properties now
controlled by the Washington Traction
COmpany syndicate
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SURVEYOR ]. 0. JONES HEARD.
Describes NicarnEunn Route to Sen
ate Canal Committee.

The meeting of the Senate Committee
on Interoceanic Canals yesterday was con-
fined to the examination of Mr.. ]. o. Jones,
who, under the direction OF the Walker
Commission, carried on the work of sur
veying the Nicaraguan route.
He detailed the impressions he gained
as result CT his work, and of his three
years residence in that country.
Mr.. Jones spoke highly OF the health
fulness of the climate, and made clearer
several points N the Commissions re-
port relative to the lines OF exact level
which he ran.
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ROOSEVELT HIS FRIEND.
Former Montana Senator Carter
Calls on the President.

Ex-senator Tom" Carter. of Montana,
talked over prospective Federal appoint
ments in that State with the President
yesterday. He said the President had
expressed confidence jim the Republican
organization of Montana, and would ac-
cord it recognition. Mr.. E. W. Beattie,
the surveyor general against whom a
warm fight has been waged, will prob
ably be continued in Office.
The cordial reception accorded ex-Sen-
ator Cater was rather victory for him
inasmuch as the cry was only lately set
up that his influence was wrecking the
State.
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Another Count.
To Celebrate Emancipation Day.

meeting Of the Eighth Independent
Battalion OF CoIored Militia was held
Friday evening at their arniory for the
purpose Of making arrangements for the
proper observance of the emancipation
Of slaves in the District OF Columbia,
Aprn Is. officers were elected and COM
roittees were appointed to look after the
matter. There will be a meeting of the
organization February 10
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FIGHTERS CELEBRATE.
Spanish War Veterans Entertain the
Union Legion.

The General Miles Command, Spanish
War Veterans, entertained Camp 50, Union
Veteran Legion. at smoker and entertain
ment last evening.
Several speeches were made. There were
men whom they knocked and others whom
they praised. President Roosevelt was a
target of praise in most of the speeches.
Col. n. EmUlet Urell was enthusiastical-
ly cheered as he entered the hail. and a cry
for speech Immediately showed his popu-
larity. The smoker was a return compli-
ment for the one paid the boys of the Span
ish- American war by the entertained camp
some weeks ago. Col. Lee NJ. Lipscomb,
corps commander Spanish War Veterans,
was the presiding officer.
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NORTHERN MARKET
COMPANY Is SUED
Miss DWyer Claims $4,000
for Injuries.
Plaintiff Declares She Slipped md
Fell in Front of COmpany's
Building.

Miss Jane G. Dwyer has filed suit
against the Northern Market Company
and the District to recover $4,000 claimed
as damages for personal injuries.
Miss D@ycT alleges that while walking
along Seventh Street between and p
Streets, In front of the Northern Market
Companys building. she slipped upon
some peelings and vegetable refuse. AS
the result OF her fall. she states that her
right arm was brokeD and that she was
otherwise seriously hurt.
Interesting Questions Raised.
The case raises some interesting ques-
tions as to the liability OF the District
and the market company for permitting
an alleged Illegal occupation OF the side
walk Immediately north of the market
company's market house at Seventh and
Streets. 1t is charged in one count that
the two defendants illegally obstructed
and permitted the obstruction OF the
sidewalk, which was a public thorough
fare, by the former granting to venders
OF country produce the right In consider
alton of daily payment Of 10 cents from
each occupant to occupy the curbing and
a part of the sidewalk space on market
days with their stalls and produce and
that as a result, the sidewalk was lit
tered with refuse on which the plaintiff
slipped and was injured while walking
along Seventh Street.
Authority of Inv.
1t is alleged that there was no authority
of law for this occupation, and that the
market company is responsible for ellie
gally authorizing the use of the sidewalks
in front of its property, which are
stores belonging to the company and in-
mediately south of it's market house. and
that the District Is liable for permitting
the alleged unlawful obstruction of the
street.
Another Count.
In another count of the declaration the
market company is sued on the ground
that, in the lease OF its stores in front
CT which the accident occurred they pro-
hibited its tenants from interfering
with teams and venders of produce. who
might be permitted to occupy the side
walk, or from collecting fees from these
persons, and the market company as
surncd the duty of keeping the sidewalk
clean, which duty it is alleged, IL failed
to fulfill.
Attorneys Charles II. Merillat and Eu-
gene Carusi are named as counsel for
Miss Dwyer.
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Not It's Agents.
Maine Politician mt White House.

Joe" Manley. Republican National
Committeeman from Maine, called on
President Roosevelt this morning. He
declared that his visit had 70 political
significance. He will remain in Washing
ten for several days.
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Would Change Prince Henry's Route

Representative Otey OF Virginia intro
duced in the House yesterday a resolu-
tion requesting the President to consider
change in the proposed itinerary of
Prince Henry, that the route shall ex-
tend through Virginia North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee.
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WILL READ TO THE BLIND.
Those Volunteering for This Serv
Ice at Congressional Library.

Those who have volunteered to read
20 the blind in the room especially given
over to these unfortunates in the Con-
gressional Library next week are as fol-
lows:
Monday, Mrs. Thomas Reed: Tuesday.
Mrs. Elderkin; Thursday, Miss Susan
Hunter; Friday, Judge ]. ID. Flenner; Sat
urday, Miss Florence H. Behrend.
Wednesday afternoon, instead of the
reading. there will be a violin and piana-
forte recital by Mr.. and Mrs. William E.
Green. The reading hour is 2:3 0to 3:30
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POLICE MUSE AID
HUMANE SOCIETY
An Act of Congress Provides
for Their Services.
SOLICITOR DUVALL MAKES REPORT
Sut to BE Regarded ns Its Agent
Believes Fines and FOrfeiturcs in
Cruelty to Animal Cases Should Go
to the District Treasury,

The Solicitor, Mr.. A. B. Duvall, yester-
day submitted to the District Commits
sioners an opinion upon the communica- =
tion OF Major Sylvester requesting in
formation whether the members of the
police force are to be considered as
agents of the Washington Humane So
ciety. He says:
The powers and duties of police of
ficers, members OF the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. and
others, are defined by an act entitled IAN
act for the more effectual prevention of
cruelty to animals in the territory OF
the District of Columbia
Amendments to Act.
This act has been twice amended by
Congress. In the act approved February
10, 1885, the name OF the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was
changed to the Washington Humane So
ciety,' and the Commissioners Of the Dis
trict of Columbia were authorized by the
police force to aid the said society. The
Commissioners, he says, were author
lied, in their discretion, to detail, from
time 10 time, an VI OluCtTS 10 sill
in the work of said society. or to com
mission any duly appointed agents of
said society special police officers, with
out compensation
The Solicitor adds that among other
things it is provided by the act of Congress
approved June 25. 1892. entitled an act to
prevent cruelty to children or animals in
the District of Columbia. and for other
purposes:
That the Commissioners are authorized
to detail from time to time members of the
Metropolitan Police Force to aid the Wash
ingtoI Humane Society in the enforcement
of laws relating to cruelty to animals, as
well as of TIE laws relating to cruelty to
children"
Not It's Agents.
Mr.. Duvall is of the opinion that while
the Commissioners are authorized, in their
discretion to detail from time to time one
or more members of the police force to aid
the society. there is no law making the
members agents of the society.
Mr.. Duvall states that he is further of
the opinion that in the disposition of fines
and forfeitures imposed in cases of cruelty
to animals. such as are imposed in cases
of arrest and prosecutions made by the po-
lice officers. should be paid over TO the Dis
trict, and that fines and forfeitures collect
ed upon. or resulting from the complaint
or information of the agents of the Humane
Society. should be paid over by the proper
officer to the society
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the seven miles of streets which will be
traversed by the procession, on frontages
where building operations are in progress,
along the sides Of the public squares. in
front Of hotels and government buildings
that stand back from the sidewalk, are
signs of whole forests stripped and brought
to London. Every club along the line of
march is putting up scaffolding, There is
a mammoth timber terrace for the eX-
elusive use of peers, a building on the
northern side of Trafalgar square, while
in Constitution hall, past which the king
will drive from and to Buckingham palace,
a stand which, it is said, is the largest ever
built is being constructed.
But perhaps the most remarkable of all
are the tiers of seats being built around the
two old churches that stand in the middle
of the Strand, st. Mary's and st. Clement
Danes. Both of them are picturesque and
venerable buildings, but that has not pre-
vented them from being utilized by the
stand builders.
The widening of the Strand has cleared
out the buildings that used to surround
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attend to. Prices in both trades have gone
up to an amazing figure and they are al
most certain to go higher yet as the de-
mand for timber and workmen grows
keener. Pounds upon pounds, too, are fall
ing into the Golfers OF the people who man
ufaCture street decorations; and the gor-
geous Ornamentation of the London streets
through which the royal procession is to
pass will be one of the sights Of the day.
Every LondCn borough which the corona
tion route crosses is arranging for decora-
lions to cost thousands and British and
continental firms are working overtime to
furnish all sorts of IN In the
royal borough of Westminster the decora-
tions are TO be unusually striking. Six
miles of the coronation route lie in this
borough and the streets composing it will
be lined with Venetian masts swathed in
red cloth and decorated with golden
crowns, with garlands and with parti-
colored streamers.
Imitation Marble Decorations
The finest scene of all. however will be
just in front Of the western entrance to the
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Abbey, where a whole forest of imitation
marble pillars will be raised. Each one
will bear the golden figure of a saint, while,
in about the center of the column a crown
and shield, Cmblazoned with the royal
arms, will be hung. From below these.
graceful garlands will stretch from one
column to another. Besides these there
will be at least four %triumphal arches, also
in imitation marble, and also bearing the
royal arms, besides being decorated with
rich gilt. From the curves formed by the
arches, loops of prairie grass, ornamented
with different colOred balls, will hang.
Though the business that will be lone in
seats on the grandstands on Coronation
day promises to be startling, there will be
even a brisker trade in seats in windows.
Even now, it is hard to find a shop or office
building, of any sort which is not advertis-
ing windows to view the coronation pro-
cessions." Almost all of these windows
have been bought up by rich syndicates-
most of the stands also are being built by
syndicates-who are planning to charge
whopping prices for them. Some one has
estimated that these windows will accom-
modate about 200 900 spectators, that the
grandstands will probably seat 100, 900,
while 10000 more will find places in the
show windows of shops, almost every one of
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which along the route will contain a tier
of seats. Added together these figures
give a total OF $40, 600 people who will be
seated in one or another along the corona
tion route. Present indications are that
the humblest of those seats will sell for .
gutAeas, or $40 apiece.
To attempt to say what the NOR, desir-
able will bring would be rather a rasl
prophosy; but IL you calculate that each
one of these $4,000 spectators pays on
an average $40 for his seat, you have So
100000 changing hands.
To keep the crowd back, the line e
march will be hedged with troops and
policemen. The soldiers will come from
India, from the colonies; some OF them w II
be volunteers or Imperial Ycomanry. and
there will be $4,000 of them in all SO you
can imagine the scene-the pavements.
from the shop-fronts to the curbs. black
with people, pressed back by the "thin,
red line" OF troops, the windows of every
story white with faces, thousands looking
on from endless stands, and other thou
sands p%eering down from the roofs. 1t is
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the churches so that they command a
splendid view of the street, and each OF
them now is being enclosed with a mass Of
scaffolding which is intended to result in
an immense "three-decker' stand capable
of holding several thousand people. The
topmost tier of seats will reach almost to
the base of the spires, so that the entire
bodies of the churches with the exception
of their roofs will be hidden.
Carpenters and the Abbey.
AS for Westminster Abbey itself, the
amount Of carpentry work that is being
done around it is a thing that makes folk
who love the old church for its romance
shudder and gnash their teeth. To begin
with, the western entrance and the APP.
prOach thereto are disfgured by a mass of
scaffolding where a strong force of laborers
is at work on the temporary building in
which the king and queen will robe before
their coronation. And, as if this were not
enough, operations are just beginning on
the side of the Abbey, where an immense
stand, to run along the whole length of
the building, will be placed.
So the timber men and the building con-
tractors of London are rubbing their hands
and chortling as orders come piling in
and every laborer who can handle a ham
mer and saw has more work than he can