The Washington times., 1911-03-02
Chamber of Commerce to
Urge Extra Session of Con-
gress to Grant Powers.
WILL ASK ATTITUDE OF
FOREIGN CONCERN
Eighteen New Members Appointed
to Committee on Park Com
mission Plans.

The executive committee of the Cham
Der of Commerce with the authority II
the whole Chamber and with specific
Instructions from the board of directors
is planning TO urge Congress, In its
extra session, to pass the bill giving
the District Commissioners powers OF
q public service commission. The au-
thority of the Chamber was given d:
its meeting last month when former
Commissioner Henry B. f. Macfar-
lands resolution was adopted. lnstruc-
tiOnS to press the matter before the
next Congress were given by the direc-
tors at the monthly meeting in the
rooms of the Chamber last night.
The bONrd of directors will, by for
NAL letter, ask the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Company, since it
is the only public service company,
business ill., the city, what its attitude
would be toward law such as is now
before Congress, and which will be re-
introduced into the next This action
was also determined upon at last nights
meeting upon motion of Mr.. Macfar-
land, who pointed out that refusal OF
the telephone company to make known
its affairs TO the Commissioners unGCr
the proposed law might embarrass tie
efforts of the Chamber and the Com
misSiOners to secure the desired legis-
lation.
Promises to Obey Laws.
Charles w. Darr objected that the
question would be an unfair one to the
company. D. $. Porter, general man
ager of the Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company in the District, who
is also a director of the Chamber, VOL
unteered the information that in so far
as his company was concerned he might
assure the Chamber that the company
would obey the law, no matter what
ii might be.
If the Commissioners decide to adopt
the suggestion &c the board of man
ayers of the Associated Charities for
the appointment of a committee of five
10 be known as the charities endorse
ment committee, the president OF the
Chamber of Commerce will Immediately
nominate a member of the Chamber to
serve on the committee. The committee
is to be made up of one member from
the Chamber of Commerce, one from
the Board of Trade, one from the Board
of Public Charities, and two at large
Eighteen new members were added TO
the special committee, of which Glenn
Brown is chairman, and which was ap-
pointed for the purpose OF turtherlng
the plans of the Park Commission.
The new members are:
Reginald Schroeder, DR.. Mitchell Car
roll, Charles d. WalCott, r. ). W ood-
ward, John Joy Edison, W. f. GURUS
Charles. D. Hilles, Frank G. CaTpentGL'
Carroll Goldsborough, Robert Lincoln
O'Brien, Chaplin Brown. David Fair
child. Or. Frank Baker, J. G. U O'LauGh-
lin, Fred A. Emery, w. J. Starr, Dr.
Wallace Radcliffe.
Rock Creek Valley Effort.
The committee was instructed to CO.
operate with the Board Of Trade, upon
its request, in securing the open valley
treatment of Rock Creek valley.
Provision for two addresses at the
next meeting of the Chamber were mace
tLe Rev. Wilbur +. Crafts, officers OIL
the International Moral and Social
Commission, will address the Cnamoer
upon the subject of the proposed oullu-
ing at the corner of Pennsylvania ave
nue. and Second street southeast. David
FairChild will address the C$hamDer,
With stereopticon illustrations, upon the
work of the Peoples Garden Assocla-
ton, of which he Is president.
For Playground Supervision.
William E. Shannon said that the
committee on a monthly publication
desired more time. that the booklet
containing the Glenn Brown lecture and
views of the park commission scheme
had lust been issued, and that although
Congress had finally refused an increase
of salaries to the Commissioners, the
special committee, composed OF himself;
A c. Moses, and Chapin Brown, would
20 before Congress at its next session
in another effort to secure the increase.
Isaac Cans introduced a resolution
re0Uesting the Commissioners to ap-
point, preferably a District man, TO
The new WY created position of Super
visor of Public Fairgrounds. 1t was
Mr.. Shannon caused a stir near the
end of the meeting in displaying a
fulI-paSe advertisement from morn
inp naDcr OF an oil company, which.
nc said. was named the same as the
oil company which stands seventeenth
in the list of companies promoted by
Burr Brothers. the New York pro-
moters in trouble with the Govern,
ment Upon his motion the law ana
LEGISLATION committee was Instructed
to investigate the matter.
A lively tilt was precipitated by the
proposition to Join the American As
sociation of Highway Improvement.
il came as a recommendation from
the executive committee and was re-