Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-10

| in the provision of the House. prohibiting
| the establishment of penal institution
| for the District within ten miles of Mount
| Vernon.
Combine Workhouse and Jail.
| The Senate committee did adopt an
amendment, along the line of one favored
| by the House subcommittee District
| appropriations. combining the workhouse
and the jail in one institution and giving
| the Commissioners jurisdiction over that
| institution and its inmates
AS the site for the reformatory is
not yet fixed, because of the prohibition
against it's establishment on the site
designated by the Commissioners, the
appropriation for removing prisoners to
the site of the penal institutions is re-
duced from $2SS,000 to $4,000, of
which $4,000 is made Immediately
available.
District mlitia-Fund for expenses of
| camps increased from 81 200 to $4,000;
fund for cleaning and REPAIRING uni
forms and equipment increase $50. to
total 5000; fund to meet expenses of tar
get practice. increase $3.50, to be $1,5O0
\ provision inserted by the committee
says that there may be paid to all COM
missioned officers without discrimina-
ton. and in lieu of the limited pay au-
thorized by this section an allowance
to be used by them in the purchase and
maintenance of clothing and equipment
The amendment providing SlUoOO0 to-
ward the reclamation and development
of the Anacostia flats says:
Toward the reclamation and develop
ment of the AnacoStia river and flats,
from the Anacostia bridge northeast to
the District line, to be expended under
the supervision of the chief of Engineers.
United States Army, upon plans to be
prepared under the direction of. and to be
approved by. board of engineers to con-
sist of the Engineer Commissioner of the
rS< Of no ff nhn
of public buildings and grounds and the
engineer officer in charge of the improve
ments of the Potomac river; said sum to
be available for the preparation of plans,
the prosecution of the work. the employ
ment of personal service and for such
other purposes may in the judgment of
said board be necessary to carry out the
purposes of this appropriation, S10D.UO.
A new highway plan for that portion
of the District between MacOmb street,
the Zoo, Cathedral avenue and 31st street
and Woodley road, with highways of a
minimum width of forty feet, is au-
thorized.
To Preserve Klingle Ford Valley.
For the preservation of the Klingle Ford
valley the bill provides:
THE Commissioners of the District of
Columbia are hereby authorized and di-
rected to acquire the necessary land
Ford valley, including certain land on
the west side of Connecticut avenue,
opposite the entrance to the Zoologi-
cal Park. and certain land lying be-
tween the western boundary of said
Geological Park and Connecticut and
Cathedral avenues. containing in all
thirty and one-tenth acres, more or less,
and located as shown on plans on file
in the office of the Engineer Commits
sioner by the District of Columbia with
Rock Creek Park and to the enlarge
ment of the Geological Park; and for
that purpose the sum of 100000 is
hereby authorized, one-half out of the
Treasury and one-half out of the reve-
nues of the District of Columbia: And
provided further, That one-half of the
sum that shall be annually appropri-
ated and expended for the maintenance
and improvement of said lands as a
public park shall be charged
against and paid out of the
revenues of the District of Columbia.
in the same manner now provided by
law in respect to other appropriations
for the District of Columbia, and the
other half shall be appropriated out of
the Treasury of the United States. II
said Commissioners shall be unable to
purchase said land at a price they deem
reasonable, then they shall proceed to
acquire said land in the manner pre-
scribed for providing site for an addi-
ton to the government printing Office in
as is set forth pages GAS and $40 of
volume 80 of the statutes at large. and
for the purposes of said acquisition the
Commissioners of the District of Column
bia shall have and exercise all powers
conferred upon the public printer in said
act.
New Electric Rates.
Electric lightng-New rates are gener-
ally provided for the different kinds of
lamps. After setting forth the price to
| be paid for lighting and the duties of the
contractors with regard thereto, an
amendment to the bill provides:
Hereafter any gaslight company or
any electric light company doing business
in the District of Columbia. which shall
fail or refuse to furnish erect. maintain,
move discontinue any street lamp in
compliance with the foregoing provisions
as the Commissioners of the District of
Columbia may direct shall be subject to
a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each
and every days failure or refusal SO to
do, to be recovered at law in the name
of the District of Columbia in any court
of competent .urisdiction"