Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
STREET EXTENSIONS
Bills Introduced as to Thir-
teenth and Fourteenth.
HOURS OF employees
MR.. BANKHEAD'S MEASURE IN
REGARD TO ST. ELIZABETH.
Mr.. Gillett's Act to Permit the Cond1-
tional Retirement Of Employees in
the Classified Service.

Representative Pearre of Maryland has
introduced a bill in the House provid'ng
for the opening of 14th street. The bill
proposes to appropriate $4,000, one-aalf
by the District of Columbia, and one-half
by the United States, for grading and
macadamizing 14th street from IT'S present
terminus at Lydecker avenue, with the
same width of roadway now open just
south of this point, to the junction with
Piney Branch road near Br.ghtwooo. with
the assent of owners of houses, barns and
other improvements and property along
the proposed opening. a second interesting
provision of the bill is as follows:
THAT the following sum is hereoy ap-
propriated out of the revenues OF tne DIS DIS
trict of Columbia in full for the following
purposes namely: Seven thousand hVe
hundred dollars for enabling the Commis-
sioners of the District of Columbia to pur-
chase the pieces or parcels OF srouiiu
necessary for the right of way OF SAID
street, which they are hereby authorized 10
do, or for paying in condemnation proceed
ings hereby authorized, any damages or
excess of damages over benefts that may
be allowed to the owner or owners OF lana
to be taken, should there be any damages
found in such proceedings or any damages
found in excess of benefits: And provided
further That, if the damage or damages
allowed shall be in excess OF SI,Joo, hereby
District of Columbia may, in their discre-
tion reject the award or awards in such
condemnation proceedings and the appro-
priations aforesaid of $4,000 and ST,o0O
shall revert to the treasury OF the United
States except $500 of the latter appropria-
tion which shall be chargeaDle with the
costs of the proceedings in respect to Said
condemnatons'
To Open 18th Street.
Col Pearre has also introduced bill
for the opening of 18th street from Spring
road to Ingraham street The sum of
S54, 900 is appropriated on the half-and-
half basis and $500 for the same pur-
poses as Indicated in the section OF the
14th street bill.
Mr. Babcock has introduced the Com
missioners' bill defining the term regis
tered nurse" and regulating the use
thereof.
Representative McCreary has introduced
a bill for the erection of statue of
Abraham Lincoln in this city. 1t is pro-
posed to appropriate 100000 for the pur
pose.
Representative Samuel w Smith has
introduced a bill to transfer to the Sec
retary of the Interior such supervision of
the Government Hospital for the Insane,
Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum and the
Washington Hospital for Foundlings as
may have been conferred upon the board
of charities of the District of Columbia
under the act approved June &, 1900, cre-
Hours of Work at st. Elizabeth.
Representative Bankhead has introduced
bill to regulate the hours of service and
compensation of attendants and nurses at
the Government Hospital for the Insane
The bill provides all attendants and nurses
shall be given fifteen days vacation In any
one calendar year with pay, all of the ma
tional holidays in any one calendar year
with pay, or days as their equivalent, and
ffty-two Sundays, or days as their equ-va.
lent, and be allowed given fifteen days
sick leave with pay in any one calend ar
year; and it is to be the duty of the super
intendent of the asylum and the Secretary
of the Interior to see that this provision oil
law is executed.
1t is further provided that as soon as
practicable after the passage of this act the
attendants and nurses salaries shall be in
creased $40 per month The bill fixes a
scale for all salaries and appropriates $35,-
600 to give it's provisions effect.
A Clerks Retirement Bill.
Representative Gillett of Massachusetts,
chairman of the House committee on the
civil service has introduced, by request, a
bill providing for the conditional retirement
of employees in the classified civil service. 1t
is provided that after given date the Sec
retary of the Treasury shall deduct ana
collect from the salaries of all classified
civil service employees the following per-
centages: From fifteen to thirty years of
age 2 per centurn of salaries; from thirty
to forty years of age, ) per centum OF sala-
ries; from forty to fifty years of age, per
centum of salaries; from fifty to sixty years
of age, per centum of salaries; from
sixty to ninety years of age, per centum
of salaries. From annuities, 10 per centum
| for the first ten years after the passage OF
this act Annuites to be 30 per centum of
average salaries ten years before retire.
ment.
Among the other provisions of the meas
ure are the following:
Retrements with annuitles compulsory at
seventy years of age.
Retirements with annuities, however, on
written request of employees. and approved
by the civil service commission, may COM
mence on and after sixty years of age.
! Disabilities arising from chronic disease
or accident not caused by intemperance,
when favorably reported on by the board
of medical examiners established to inves-
| tigate claims for pensions made by vet
| Grams of the late wars, will receive the fol-
lowing annuitieS:
| From thirty to forty years of age
twenty per centum of average salary ten
! years before retiring.
| From forty to fifty years Of age, thirty
per centum of average salary ten years
| before retiring
| From fifty to sixty years of age forty
per centum of average salary ten years
before retiring.
| The continuance, however, of these an
nuitieS Shall be determined by a re-exam-
| iration by the medical board every third
year until the sixtieth year of age is
| reached. In case of death before reaching
| the required age for retirement a sum equal
! to ten per centum of the yearly annuities
shall be paid to the estate of the deceased
| for each year of service. total payment not
| to exceed amount of one years annuity
| Retirements to commence soon as one
/ years deductions and collections shall have
| been made.
The Secretary of the Treasury will pay
| out of the deductions on salaries collected
| by him. herein provided, all claims for
| annuties arising in accordance with the
| provisions of this act presented to him by
| the civil service commissioners. who shall
| keep record of the names, ages, positions
| salaries, and so forth. OF all classified civil
! service employees in the service of the gov
| ernment at the time this act takes effect
| and all persons shown by said record to
| be entitled to the same shall receive
| quarterly annuity checks.
If at any time the collections are insult
| ficient to pay the annuities as they become
| due, the Secretary of the Treasury is here
| by authorized to pay out Of the treasury
1 such money as may be required to meet
these deficiencies
All persons entering the classified civil