Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-11-29
DAMPER UPON WORK
Senate District Committee
May Act on But Few Bills.
HOUSE IS DISCOURAGING
Many Local Measures Are Delayed
by Representatives.
GALLINGER Is RETURNING
GALLINGER is RETURNING
Expected to Reach Washington To
morrow-Important Municipal
Legislation Now Pending.

Senator Jacob II. Gallinger. chair
man of the Senate District committee
and guiding hand of District legisla-
ton in the upper house of Congress. is
expected to return to his office at the
Capitol tomorrow morning to resume
his official duties Having spent
Thanksgiving with relatives in Massa
chusetts, he left Boston today for
Washington.
Members of the committee who have
already reached the city do not believe
the committee will take up a large
amount of new legislation during the
coming short session. They point out
that the Senate. upon the recommended
ton of the committee, passed last session
many important measures which are Still
pending in the House or in the House
| committee and they are inclined to feel
| that the House Should give unmistakable
signs of pushing through some of the leg
islation already passed by the Senate be-
fore the Senate committee takes up fur
Their work.
| Situation Is Discouraging.
1t is discouragins to get legislation
through the Senate and have it fail in
the House through non-action, they say,
and they want some encouragement from
/ the House in the way of the passage of
some of the important bills now pending
! there after passage by the Senate
! The public utilities bill and the Jones'
| Works excise bill are the measures most
| frequently cited by senators as those
upon which they would like 10 have the
House take action. The Senate has given
| its approval to both, and. in the view of
| the members of the Senate District COM
mittee, both are important.
| There also are the universal transfer
| bill, the bill for the establishment Of a
police and firemen's. pension fund, and
many street extension bills looking to
the further Improvement and beautifica-
ton of the National Capital, which Sena-
tors cite as having been passed by the
Senate and not acted upon by the House.
Some of Bills Pending.
Forty-three bills passed by the Senate
are pending before the House commit
tee or the House. Besides those al
ready mentioned. they include such
bills as those providing for the accep-
lance of the Nathan Straus milk
laboratory by the United States; the Ii
censing Of secondhand booksellers; the
extension of Kenyon and 18th streets; the
extension of Newton place northwest;
the compulsory removal of snow and ice
from sidewalks: changing the name of
Fort place northeast to Irving street; ex-
tension of LIST street northeast; extension
of Minnesota avenue southeast; amending
the harbor regulations; relating to the
arrearage of taxes; providing for the dis
interment of bodies in abandoned ceme-
terieS; for the better registration of
births: for the licensing of guiSes
the extension of Buchanan street.
the widening of 10th street northwest;
the designation of land in the surveyors
office: for a new highway plan between
Georgia avenue and Rock Creek Park:
prohibiting the abandonment of infirm
or aged parents: the extension Of New
Hampshire avenue: the extension of
Grant street and Deane avenue north |
east; for a new highway plan between |
18th street and Rock Creek Park: pro- |
hibiting the exhibition of indecent pic |
lures: for the payment Of Northern Lib |
erty market claims; for a new highway !
plan for Barry Farm: for new regulations |
for the practice of dentistry: the extension !
Of Spring road; the establishment of a
home for feeble-minded children ex-
tension of street car lines in the north
east section between East Capitol and H
streets near 18th street: for the return
of library property; for the abandonment
of a part of Crittenden street: relating
to notaries public: allowing the laying of
a gas main along the Conduit road and
for the abandonment of a part of North
Dakota avenue.