The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-11
Bill introduced in the Senate
to Honor State.
MORRILL, LAND ACT AGAIN
Senator GaIIinger Asks that the
Measure Be Extended to Apply to
Washington Tniversity BE Desig-
mated to Receive Appropriation.

| Through one OF the Senators from
! Florida, the State OF West Virginia may
yet attain the honor OF being sponsor for
street in Washington. A bill intro
duced by Senator Fletcher yesterday or
ders West Virginia avenue TO he con-
struCted out of strip OF land extending
| in a northeasterly direction from the in
tersection of Sixth and l streets north
east to Florida avenue The strip re-
ferred TO was formerly a portion of the
right of way OF the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad
The most important of a number of bills
introduced yesterday by Senator Gallinger
provides for the extension of the Morrill,
land act to the District of Columbia and
names George Washington University as
the beneficiary. The bill is the same. gen.
orally speaking, as the measure intro
duCed last year. 1t provides that the act
donating public lands to the several
States and Territories which possess col
leges for the benefit of agriculture and
mechanic arts shall be amended so as
to include the District of Columbia with
in its terms. the George Washington Uni
versity being designated to receive the
appropriations. AS ex officio members of
the board of trustees of George Washing
ton University are designated the Secre-
tary of Agriculture. the Secretary of the
Interior the Secretary of Commerce and
Labor, and the Commissioner of Educa-
ton.
New System to Designate Land.
A bill providing for a new system of
designating land on the plats in the Office
of the District assessor was also pre-
sented by Senator Gallinger. The Dis
trict Commissioners have recommended
this legislation with a view to simplify
ing the records of the Office, preventing
errors of location of improvements in
assessing property for taxes, doing away
with complicated descriptions in the an
nual advertised tax-sale list, enabling the
taxpayer to identify his property from
the face of his tax bill without recourse
to other records and the consequent re-
duction of the liability to error in many
respects.
Senator Gallinger also introduced bills
to confirm the name of Commodore
Barney Circle for the circle located at
the eastern end of Pennsylvania avenue
southeast; to change the name of Fort
place, from Seventeenth to Eighteenth
streets northeast, to Irving street
Wants Statue to Meade.
Mr. Moore, of Pennsylvania, yesterday
introduced a bill appropriating $4,000 for
the preparation of a plan for the erection
of foundation and pedestal on ground
belonging to the United States in the
city of Washington upon which to place
a statue. to be furnished by the State
of Pennsylvania, of Maj. George Gordon
Meade. The State of Pennsylvania is to
expend $4,000 for the statue.
Representative Dickinson, of Missouri,
introduced a bill amending existing law
relative 10 the sale of intoxicants to
minors, in such manner as to provide
that a LIQUOR dealer who sells or gives
to any person under twenty
one years of age, knowingly or not. |
shall be subject to a fine of SIS or i'm |
prisonment for thirty days. or both. and |
in addition to such penalty the license |
for the place in which sale or gift to a |
minor occurs shall be revoked.