Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-26

Washington, he said. Is surrounded by con-
ditions worse than In any other place in
the country He hoped the House would
stand by the majorityof its conferees and
vote to keep the, Police Court out of the
building.
Mr.. Mccleary's Closing.
Representative Mccleary, in charge of
the bill, closed the discussion. He said the
ultimate analysis of the whole matter was
whether the House should do what Mr..
Burkett of Nebraslaya and Mr.. Benton OF
Missouri wanted Or whether 1t should vote
to save several hundred thousand dollars
and do what everybody else wanted.
At this Tsp point M Burkett warmly nh inter- the
bill into the House from the committee on
appropriations containing the provision
that the Police Court should be put In the
mittee. he said. had stood by Mr.. McCleary
in pushing the matter through the House.
Mr. Burkett said that in conference he had
stood by the instructions of the House. and
added that If the other conferees had done
so the Senate amendment would have been
defeated
When Mr.. McCleary rose to reply he
walked from his own seat to where Mr..
Burkett was sitting. and shaking his finger
at the latter. said
1.-THE gentleman from Nebraska knows
very well that If I had opened my mouth
in this House the provision Of which he
SPEAKS CouiO not nave Deen cdTTleU Helu
my peace out of consideration for the gem
tleman from Nebraska. hoping he would
soon come to right understanding of the
matter. did not make any fight over the
provision in the House, because I did not
feel like it at that time"
Mr.. McCleary then returned calmly to a
discussion of the merits of the case
When the matter was put to a vote the
House decided almost unanimously to re-
cede and concur in the Senate amendment,
which leaves the Police Court out of the
new building, leaves the offices OF recorder
of deeds and register of wills In the city
hall, where they are now located, and ap-
propriates $4,000 for additional land for
new Police Court building and the sums re-
quested by the recorder of deeds and regis
ter of wills for additional metal shelving
in their respective offices.
The Commissioners Gratifed.
Commissioners Macfarland and West
both expressed themselves as highly graft
fed over the action of the House in in
structing it's conferees to recede from their
position relative to the accommodation or
the Police Court and the offices of the
register of Wills and recorder of deeds In
the new municipal building.
Col. Biddle, Engineer Commissioner, was
absent from his office this afternoon on an
inspection tour, but 1t is known that he IS
very much in favor Of providing for the
Police Court and the other offices outside
of the new District building, and his APP
prevail of the action of the House is vouch-
safed
The Commissioners ever since the propo-
sition was first suggested to provide for
the Police Court and the register of wills
and recorder of deeds in the new munich
pal building, have declined to publicly ex-
press their opinion on the proposition.
However, they vigorously opposed the
project in their hearings before the House
and Senate committees, and their attitude
in regard to the matter has been well I'M
derstood.
Capt. Chester Harding, assistant to the
Engineer Commissioner. and who has
charge Of the construction Of the new home
for the District government was also
greatly pleased to receive word of the ac-
ton of the House In. regard to the matters
disagreed upon by the eonferees
Captain Harding stated today that the
total amount now available for construct
ing the new building outside Of any ap-
preparation in the present District bill. is
$274,OOO. Ill
The first appropriation for this building
was 100000. Later an appropriation of
$3.50, 600 was authorized. The amount that
has been expended IN the purchase of a
site preparation of plans, ETC., for the mu-
nicipal building is $4,000, leaving 5000
now available, as stated.
With the amount now on hands. 1t is
stated, the District building commission
could have proceeded with the construction
of the foundations Of the new building ac-
cording to the authorized plans This fea-
ture of the work would consume about
six months time.
1t is likely that the District building
commission will proceed at once to call for
bids for the construction of the founda-
tons of the building. The commission had
approved the plans for this feature of the
work and was on the point of advertising
for bids for the work when the PROPOSE
ton to change the plans of the building
was brought up in the House. On ac-
count of that circumstance all the work
in connection with the building was
dropped for the time, until after Congress
had definitely decided upon the uses TO
which the proposed new building will be
nut