Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-04
AGAIN IN THE BILL
District Appropriation Items
Stricken Out by House.
SENATE COMMITTEE ACTS
Reasons Assigned for More Pay to
Morgue Employees.
PLAN FOR GARBAGE DISPOSAL
Provision for Modern Revolvers for
Policemen Is ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Suffrage Injected Into Debate.
PLAN FOR GARBAGE DISPOSAL

The assistant morguemaster of the Dis
trict is allowed a raise in pay from $3.50
to 5000 in an amendment to the District
appropriation bill, and 1t is based on the
fact that he is provided with sleeping
quarters at the expense of the District.
The assistant morguemaster and janf-
tor received only $3.50 a year." Commits
sioner Johnston told the Senate subcom-
mittee on District appropriations. He
is a very responsible man, keeps the
record of the Office and lives in the
morgue, which I think he ought to be
compensated for rather than be regarded
as a consideration"
sympathy for the men and women who
are confined at Occoquan in the District
| workhouse was shown by senators on the
subcommittee that investigated the Dis
trict appropriation bill. Commissioner
Judson was discussing garbage disposal
plant for the District.
Methods Discussed.
There is already some complaint COM
ing up to us from Virginia against the
existing garbage plant" Senator Gal
linger remarked where have you it in
mind to establish plant and what sys-
tenn are you going to adopt-incinera-
| ton"
mo. sir: we had in mind to use re-
duction method" Maj. Judson said, land
to put the plant at Occoquan, where we
have convict camp, so that we could
get the benefit Of the convict labor, and
at the same time the disagreeable part
of it would be largely experienced around
there on our own land"
Yes, but the poor fellows who are
there Wnl1ld have the ihpnpf1t of 1T -
piled Senator Gallinger Have you any
| right to feed them on the odors from
a garbage plant?''
IF you have to feed anybody on them
think it would be better to feed those
people," Maj. Judson replied. mo, it
would not be bad with them. It is an
odor that is very slight 1t is more like
the OdOr of burnt sugar than anything
elSe-that is. from q modern plant-and
when you are always with that odor you
do not notice it,
Modern Revolvers Item Restored.
1t was upon the urgent plea of Commits
sioner Johnston that the Senate commit
tee put back into the District appropria-
ton bill provision for the purchase of
modern revolvers for the members of
the police force.
The idea of taking the revolver away
from the policeman, when you cannot
subject a criminal to a similar prOhibi-
ton, puts the policeman at such dis
advantage" the Commissioners told the
subcommittee, that I think If 1t were
generally known throughout the country
that the policemen here in the National
Capital, where. in addition to valuable
lives, there is considerable wealth to pro
tect, were not hereafter to be armed with
revolvers, there would probably be a good
many crooks set sail for Washington"
The Senate committee amended the
District bill to provide 5000 for an ex-
hibit of the District at the international
congress on hygiene and dermography
to be held in this city next summer.
Have you anything that the District
of Columbia wants to exhibit there:
Senator Gallinger asked Commissioner
Johnston when the matter came up in
| the hearings on the bill.
Unless they send their human ex-
! hibits there. / do not know what they
have" Mr.. Johnston replied.
| The women's suffrage question cropped
| out in the hearings on the District bill as
| soon as a delegation of women began
| talking about the need of training for
good citizenship. Mrs. George 4: Small
! wood had spoken of the splendid work
| done for white boys at the National
Training School for Boys. and asked that
| provision be made for white girls at the
girls reform school.
One Advocate Is Sure.
| .'These boys who are at this training
| school are not only the sons OF the
! country, but they are to be the voters
| and the fathers of the country she re-
| marked; land the girls are never to be
| the voters, but they are certainly to be
| the wives and mothers. however poor
| and humble and poorly trained. and 1t
seems to me it would be a splendid thing
for this great country to give them this
| fighting chance
/ Are you sure they are never to be the
| voters?'' a senator asked.
| May l answer that?'' exclaimed Mrs.
Lockwood. an ardent suffragist. THAT
is certainly the case. You want a train
| ing school for girls, because they are go
| ing to be the voters; that is all there is
of it. Make good citizens of them, what
| ever you do: and take example by the
! Junior Republic. make them proud of
| their class instead of its being disgrace
| to be in the reform school You know, the
| National Society Of the Daughters of the
LAmerican Revolution believes in good citi-
| zenship, and we have been bGcklering up
| the patriotism Of this country for twenty
| one years, and now what we ask Is that
| you will help us to train these girls who
are running the streets nights and who
/ have NO homes and n make good citiznpS