Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-19
FIGHT NEAR TR|POu FOR FREE TRANSFER
Turks and Arabs Attack Force Favorable Report on Commits
of italians. sioners- -GaInger Bill
BATTLE LASTS ALL DAY PLAN MADE MORE LIBERAL
Details Regarding the Have Provides Transfer
Not Been Reported. Continuous Ride
NO CHANGE IN THE SITUATION CITIZENS BILL PUT ASIDE
by
Preparing an But Measure
Into the Interior Meets General Approval. n
Favorable Report on Commits
sioners-G GaIIinger Bill.
PLAN MADE MORE LIBERAL
Provides Transfer on Transfer for
Continuous Ride.
CITIZENS BILL PUT ASIDE
Pressed for Consideration by Sena-
tor Works, But ofacial Measure
Meets General Approval. r.

Approval Of the Commissioners-GaI.
linger universal transfer bill. with an
amendment making 1t somewhat more
liberal, was voted by the Senate Dis
trict committee this morning. and Sem
ator Gallinger will report the bill to
the Senate, on behalf of the commit
tee. with recommendation that IL be
passed.
Amendments to one part of the bill,
which the committee adopted. will have
the effect of allowing transfer on q
transfer. providing the ride is to be con-
finued in the same general direction. In
fact, 1t means that IL one railroad sys-
tenn receives a transfer from another line
the second line will be required to give
another transfer, IL necessary, to carry
the passenger to the end of it's line In
the same general direction.
The bill. as 1t was recommended by
the Commissioners and introduced by
Senator Gallinger, specified, after re-
auiring universal free transfers, that
said companies shall have the right to
stipulate that such transfers shall be
used only in continuation of trip on
the line for which they are issued. TO
prevent passengers from travelling from
one point to another and return on one
fare"
Provision as Amended.
AS amended by the committee. this
proviso will read:
''That said companies shall have the
right to stfpulate that such transfers shall
be used only in continuation of a trip i'm
one general direction within the District
travelling from one point to another and
return on one fare. and provided, further,
that the existing system of transfers on
tie lines. respectively. of the Capital
Traction Company and the Washington
Railway and Electric Company shall be
continued and made permanent"
The first change of wording was sug-
gestad by Maj. Judson, Engineer Com
hearing on the universal transfer bill
week ago; but the additional proviso was
drafted in the course of the meeting to-
day..
in the Senate by the District committee.
provides:
Text Of the Bill.
THAT thirty days after the passage OF
this act all street railroad companies now
or hereafter operating their systems or
part Of their systems within the District
OF Columbia shall at all times issue to all
passengers applying for the same FREQ
reciprocal, continuous, universal trans
fers, interchangeable from the line or
lines of one company to the line or lines
Of another, good and receivable at all
functions intersections or connections, or
wherever the tracks OF any line approach
within 200 feet the tracks Of any other
line.
Provided. That said companies shall
frH IN sfi Int hat \,
transfers shall be used only In con-
tinuation CT the trip in one general di-
rection within the District Of Columbia.
to prevent passengers from travelling
from one point to another and return
on one fare.
Provided further That the existing
systems of transfers on the lines re-
spectively of the Capital Traction
Company and the Washington Railway
and Electric Company shall be contin-
ued and made permanent.
.srhe adjustment Of the accounts be-
tween street railroad companies resulting
from this interchange OF transfers snaii
be mutually agreed upon between the SAID
companies and in case OF failure TO reach
such mutual agreement the matters in
dispute shall be determined by the Com
missioners of the District OF Columbia,
who are authorized and directed to re-
uuire every street railroad company to
comply with the provisions of this act.
and are hereby vested with power to reg
ulate such transfers and to fix the rate or
rates at which the same shall be re-
deemed. on their own motion. after notice
and hearing.
Provided, That the findings Of said
commissioners shall be, and are hereby,
declared to be prima facie reasonable
Any party interested in such proceedings
may appeal from the decision OF the said
commissioners to the Supreme Court or
the District of Columbia, and until re-
versed or modified by said court the de-
cision. finding or order OF said commits
and effect.
''The Commissioners Of the District OF
Columbia are hereby authorized and d.
rected to enforce compliance with the
provisions of this act In any court OF
competent jurisdiction by mandamus or
other remedy, either at law or in equity.
in the name of the District of Columbia
That every street railroad company
and every officer. agent or employe of
any street railroad company who shall
NEGLECT or refuse to obey or who shall
violate any Of the provisions of this act
relating to the issue to and receipt from
all passengers Of any such transfer or
transfers, shall, upon conviction, be pun
ished by q fine OF not less than SO nor
more than $40 for each and every Of
fense.
Every such neglect. refusal or violation
shall constitute a separate and distinct
offense. Every such prosecution shall be
in the Police Court of the District Of
Columbia, on information In the name or
the District Of Columbia, filed by the
corporation counsel of said District or
one OF his assistants"
Works Presses Citizens Bill.
During the discussion OF the measure
in committee today. Senator Works
pressed the citizens conference bill: but
the Commissioners-Galling bill. as il
was amended. met with general approval.
The provision Of the citizens bill, fixing
on a half-and-half basis the division
Of the fare between two street railway
in case there is a transfer
from the lines Of one to the lines of the
other. did not meet favor in the eyes of
the committee members. IL was the
general opinion that the public was not
Interested In the division OF the fare,
and such a provision had no place In
the general law.
The Gallipger public utilities bill re-
ceived only brief attention In the commit
tee today. At the suggestion Of Senator
Gallinger. IL was referred to the subcom-
mttee on public utilities. composed OF
Senators Oliver, chairman: Gallfuger.
Kenyon. Martin and Paynter.