Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-18
SEEK FEASIBLE PLAN
FOR SEWAGE DISPOSAL
Proposition in Interest Of
Maryland Counties Border
ing on the District.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE, Nd, March Ex-senator
Blair Leo Of Montgomery county will
introduce this week in the senate a bill to
create and name q commission to deter
mine the most feasible method of dispos-
ing Of sewage and drainage from certain
sections Of Prince Georges and Montgom-
cry counties. including the probable cost
and best method of providing for pay
ment of such system as may be recon-
mended and to report to the next legis-
lature the result Of such investigation.
The bill was drawn by DR.. Marshall L.
Price. secretary Of the state board OF
health, and provides for a commission
consisting of Jackson H. Ralston. Charles
A. Fox. J. Enos Ray. jr.. and T. Howard
John L. Lewis. w. T. 8. Curtis, John A.
Cassidy and ]. Dawson Williams of Mont
gomery county. and DR.. William II. WEIGH
and DR.. Price. president and secretary.
respectively. of the state board OF health,
to serve for two years without pay.
Duty Of the Commission.
This commission. under the provisions
Of the bill. is to investigate anu report
to the next legislature the most feasible
sewage and drainage within the Wheaton
and Bethesda election districts Of Mont
gomery county and Evansville, Hyatts-
vile. Chillum and Bladensburg election
districts Of Prince Georges county. and
such territory Immediately adjacent there
to as may form q natural drainage area.
The bill also provides that the report
shall embody the recommendations OF the
commission as to the most practical
means of collecting and disposing of sew
age and drainage, the probable cost of
such system or systems as may be rec
commended and the most equitable way Of
distributing the cost of such system or
systems: that the report shall be In the
form of q bill and shall be accompanied
by such documents and data as the COM
mission may deem desirable to submit.
Under the provisions of the bill the re-
Spective boards Of county commissioners
OF Prince Georges and Montgomery coun-
ties are authorized and directed to fur
nish to the commission. free of charge,
copies of the assessment books Of the
districts mentioned.
Cooperation by District.
Delegate Whitley of Prince Georges
county introduced a joint resolution in
the house petitioning Congress to name q
commission from the District Of Columbia
to confer with q similar Maryland body
to discuss the best means Of disposing of
sewage from certain sections Of Prince
Georges and Montgomery counties This
resolution was reported favorably by the
House committee on federal relations and
was adopted It was the outgrowth OF a
Joint commission appointed several months
ago by the commissioners Of the two
counties to look into legislation relating
to this matter.
Delegate Whitley has also introduced a
bill creating q commission iof four men
from each Of the two counties to deter
mine a feasible method OF disposing OF
sewage and drainage from certain Sec
lions Of the counties into the sewage sys-
tenn of the District Of Columbia and to
report to the next legislature. This bill
is now in the hands OF the two county
delegations and has not yet been reported