The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-12-19
SCORE OF BILLS PASS
UnOppOSed Street Extension
Measures Go Through.
TRACTION LINE PROJECT FAILS
washington Market Company De-
MED Authority to Make lee Any
where In District-Piney Branch
Parkway Held Up-ChId Labor
Committee's Charter Fails.

The Senate and House did business for
the District Of Columbia yesterday to
some extent. The fermsr body passed the
Senate bill for n park at the intersection
OF Branch and Pennsylvania avenues
southeast on land known. as the Car
penter tract, and the Pennsylvania Ave
nue. Heights tract, containing 40 acres
The amount appropriated for the pur-
chase Of this land is S2l0.0J0- The passage
OF this bill cleans up the park legislation
for this session up TO the last number on
the Park Commissions programme
which Is the matter of providing George
town with public breathing place. II
is expected that action will be taken on
that subject soon after the holiday re-
cess.
The Senate also passed bill prohibit
ing the sale, at either wholesale or retail.
OF intoxicating liquors within one-half
mile OF the government insane asylum, of
the almshouse. or anywhere between
those two institutions
Taxes Refunded.
A bill was passed for the relief Of vari-
Gus religious and educational institutions
in the District for amounts as follows:
Guriey Memorial Church. 1872; Howard
University, S613; Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Sl60: Columbian University. $35; and
National University, $27. These amounts
represent special taxes assessed under the
Law Of 1895 for sidewalk and other i'm
provements. The claim was made that
under the law Of 1870 the institutions
named and others like them were exempt
from taxation, and the courts having
sustained this claim. Congress is gradually
paving back moneys collected.
street Extensions.
BY arrangement it was District day in
the House. and twenty-four bills We're
passed. most OF them being street eX-
tension bills The employment agency
bill passed without a word Of discussion
It amends the present law so that persons
licensed to keep such agencies may be
fined up to So or imprisoned not TO
exceed thirty days for engaging in the
procura ton Of young women for improper
purposes.
The street extension bills passed, with
from 800 10 $500 appropriated in each Tor
extension Of condemnation proceedings,
were as follows:
Extension Of Twenty-third street northwest to
kalorama road.
Extension Of Kenyon street from Seventeenth to
Mount Pleasant street northwest
Extension Of Geneseo place and Summit place,
Lanier Heights.
Extension OF W and Adams streets to North Cap
itui street
Extension Of Seventh and Franklin streets north
east from Claiming street. parallel with the Metro
u9litan railroad 20 Rhode Island avenue
Extenson of Second and " streets from Elm
street north to Bryant street.
Extension Of Meridian place from Center street
q Fourteenth street. Mount Pleasant
Opening Of MaC0mb street, formerly Milwaukee
street from the cast boundary Of Cleyeland Heights
subdivision 20 the vest boundary OF Cleveland Park
Opening OF Fessenden street formerly Flint street.
from Wisconsin avenue TO River road
Extension Of Prospect street from Thirty-eighth
street to Canal road.
Widening Of Bladenshurg road from or Boun-
dairy street 20 the District line.
Extension Of Fourth street northeast from Frank
lin street 20 Hmnlin street.
Extension Of Monroe street northeast from Seventh
street 90 Michigan avenue.
Extension Of T street northwest from Thirty-ffth
street to Wisconsin OF Thirty second street
Extension Of Seventeenth street northwest from
Kenyon TO living
Extension Of Harvard street. Columbia Heights
% Sixteenth street
HIGHWAY between waterside drive and Park road.
Bclai- Heights.
widening Columbia road from Sixteenth street
and the western limit Of the Columbia College sub
division.
Alleys Closed.
Closing all ALLEYS in square $50, between Tenth and
Eleventh. streets and W street and Florida avenue
The said alleys 10 revert TO owners Of abutting
property. Also closing all alleys IN square ST. be-
tween and streets FouTand-a-half street and
Delaware avenue southwest admitting owners to
pay for land thus conveyed 10 them il both these
blocks the ground Is occupied by street railroads
and the alleys DO not exist in fact, being used
for tracks in common with adjoining ground
On objection. the bill TO incorporate the
National Child Labor Committee was
withdrawn for future consideration.
The bill 20 open parkway between
Sixteenth street and Rock Creek Park,
along Piney Branch, on the objection of
Representative Sims. of Tennessee, was
withheld
The bill to authorize the Washington
Market Company TO manufacture ice in
connection with the Tefrigerating business
was opposed by Mir Mann, of Illinois,
who said that the bin was giving the
company powers not given individuals
and IN effect exempted them from police
regulations in case their ice factory was
objectionable in n residence section. Mr..
BabcOck explained that the company had
not the power. under its charter, TO make
ice anywhere except on its market block.
Mr. Mann urged that the company was
occupying government ground for the
purpose Of profit, and he thought the div
idends of the company should be reported
to Congress before any further privileges