The Washington herald., 1908-02-09
DISTRICT DAY Is OFF
House viii Not Consider
Legislation Tomorrow.
IMPORTANT BILLS NOT READY
Representative smith Asks HOuse
for Unanimous Consent 90 Postpone
District Day Until Next Week.
Committee 10 Work out Trackage
Bill In the Meantime.

District day in the House, scheduled for
Tomorrow. viii most probably not ma
terialize. Owing to the fact there are
practically no important measures 70 be
submitted to the House tomorrow. 1t has
been decided TO ask for unanimous con-
sent TO postpone District day until some
later day. possibly next week
Representative Smith. chairman of the
House District Committee, said yesterday
that he VIII likely ask the House for
consent 70 postpone District day, when
y o'clock comes tomorrow
Mr. Smith said that in view of the
fact that there is but little legislation
affecting the District now ready in the
hands of his committee it has been
deemed advisable TO try to have the usual
hearing Of District measures postponed
until a later date, when two or three
successive days will be requested,
The traekage bin. BE said. has. Of course.
been keeping most Of the committee busy
for the last few weeks, SO that with the
exception of a few matters of minor i'm
portance, there is really no need In hav-
ing the House give up one afternoon 10
the District Committee at present.
VIII Not Forget Others.
The plan OF the committee Is not 10
forget other measures which may be OF
imperative Importance, if comparatively
SO, but' to try TO frame all the amend
ments to the traekage bill as soon as
possible, and not 10 have a District day
until these amendments are agreed upon
by all the members of the committee.
The committee does not care to go
before the House, il is stated with any
split in its own ranks; nor does it care
"a present the trackage bin until it is
sure that all It's component parts are
defensible by argument
AS there are four or five amendments
which are yet 10 be considered I'm the
committee and as ali of these, as has
already been stated in The Washington
Herald, are Of great Importance, both to
the street railroad companies and to the
public. the committee wants plenty of
time to debate upon their comparative
values
The committee cannot meet as a whole
committee for several more days, as sew
erai Of its members have been neglecting
other work i'm an attempt to pass finally
upon all the provisions of the trackage
bill As during this week many of them
viii be absent from Washington it is not
possible TO consider the Tackage bin un-
Ill next week.
VIII Go on as Usual.
Consideration Of other measures, how
ever, will go on as usual during the week,
and it is possible that several of great
importance VIII be whipped into shape
soon. Among those which viii no doubt
be considered by members Of the com
mittee will be "a bill calling for the ere
alton OF a public service commission.
It is understood that members of the
committee are now thinking over the
question OF cheaper gas for the District,
and it is quite possible that bill OF some
kind VIII result from this mental effort
The time of the House tomorrow will
probably be given up. by Mr. Smith to
Representative SheTman--wIth unanimous
consent. for the further consideration
OF the Indian appropriation bill