Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-26

LOCAL BILLS PASSED
House Enacts Lamont Street
and LobeCk Measures.
MADDEN OBJECTS IN VAIN
Act for Investigation Of District
Garbage Disposal System Car
ries $4,000.
MADDEN OBJECTS IN VAIN

luc NcuSc ueNOleO ABOUT ndlI an hour
today to District business and passed two
measures Of some local interest The
whole day under the rules was available
for District Of Columbia business, but ow-
ing to the inability OF the District chair
man to get quorum Of the committee on
the regular meeting day last Friday there
were no other bills on the calender that
could be called up for action today.
The bills passed were one offered by
Representative Lobeck Of Nebraska Janu-
airy s and, fayorably reported by the COM
mittee, apnropriating $4,000 for an in
vestigationt OF the collection and disposal
Of garbage. in the District. and a Senate
bill authorizing the extension Of Lamont
street northwest -
The Lobeck measure authorizes the
Commissioners ito employ competent
sanitary engineer of recognized ability
ultimate disposal OF municipal waste to
investigate the collection and disposal
within the District Of Columbia Of gar
bage. ashes, refuse. dead animals and
night soil.''
The sanitary engineer, is. to submit to
the Commissioners on or before Decem.
Der 2, 1912. a complete report upon the
most sanitary and economical methods
of collecting and disposing Of the mu.
HlCiE6al- WdStc TelcTTeQ I'D. Inc car
ries $4,000 for the purpose. although Mr.
Lobeck said he believed not more than
half this amount would be expended.
Madden Opposes Bill.
THE BILL" Mr.. Lobeck explained. ''dif.
fers from the Commissioners recommend
alton on the same subject In that it pro.
videst fer the employment OF "a competent
sanitary engineer Of recognized ability
and experience in various systems of ulti.
mate disposal Of municipal waste" where
as by the Commissioners recommendation
the question as to who should be EN-.
ployeds to make the Investigation is left
open. -
This Is a sanitary problem affecting the
welfare OF three hundred and forty. thou
sand persons now here, and of other
thousands Yet to come, and the District
committee believes It should be handled
by sanitary engineer. of whom there
are several, who have made life study
OF the various methods of disposing OF
municipal waste.
Representative Madden of Illinois op.
posed the bill, declaring that no beneficial
result would be obtained by such an
inquiry. He insisted that the way to dc
was to invite persons having plans for
garbage disposal systems to erect plant
In the District at their own expense and
demonstrate they could do the work.
Garbage men should be made to put
these plants up at their own expense, .
said Mr.. Madden. 1.-The Commissioners
could give them vacant lot somewhere
and let them make tests in a practical
way. What Is the use of sending some
body to see what is being done in other
Cities
Representative Kahn of California re-
marked that it cost at least 100000 to
build q garbage reduction plant.
We'll. suppose it does Mr.. Madden
raInfnad rH.hn %
money and the plans put up the plant
In Chicago we were able to get all the
men with schemes like this to put money
in the banks SO that the city of Chicago
without spending a cent, could test the
various plans"
-, Street Extension Unoppossd.
Mr.. Madden added he had gone to New
York to see the garbage disposal system
over there. and had found that the con
tractors were being paid for incineratine
the garbage, and yet were actually taking
tit out to sea on scows and dumping /,
there.
Il am opposed" he said, ito spending
money without getting any return"
Mr.. Madden made motion that the
bill be recommitted to the District COM
mittee with instruction that persons hav.
ing garbage disposal schemes should be
invited I'D erect pldItS III TIC City d. lACAh
own expense. This motion was defeated
and by an overwhelming majority the
Lobeck bill went through
The bill authorizing the extension OF
Lamont street went through without OBJ
jections. 1t authorizes the Commissioners
to institute proceedings to condemn the
land necessary to extend Lamont street
northwest through squares 1904 and 26oo
with a width of ninety feet, the extern
sion to be a prolongation of Lamont
street as now existing east Of 10th street
After the passage of these two bills
the House resolved itself into a commit
tee of the whole to consider the fortifi-
cations appropriation bill recently. reported
by Representative Sherley of Kentucky