Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-28
Measures Which Failed of
Passage at Last Session
of Congress.
RELIEF AND RETIREMENT
FOR POLICE AND FIREMEN
Amending Act for Assessment and
Taxation-Regulation of Child
Labor-0ther Legislation.

Senator Smith of Maryland, chairman
OF the District committee. today intro
duced in the Senate a number of i'm
portant District bills which were before
Congress at the last session, but which
failed TO become laws. The District Com
missioners requested their introduction.
These bills, which were referred to his
committee, are as follows:
To make drunkenness a misdemeanor in
the District and to provide for a hospital
for inebriates.
To provide for the regulation and sus-
pension of traffic and professions on high
ways in the District of Columbia.
To provide an additional method for
enforcing and foreclosing tax sales and
tax deeds in the District
10 amend the laws for the protection
or birds. game and fish in the District.
10 amend an act entitled An act for
registration of all cases of tuberculosis
in the District, for free examination of
sputum in suspected cases and for pre-
venting the spread Of tuberculosis.'
To protect the public health by regu-
lating the production and sale OF milk
and cream and ice cream in the District
To create a board OF accountancy for
the District.
For Relief Of Firemen and Police,
To create a police and firemen's re-
lief and retirement fund. to provide for
the relief and retirement of members Of
the two departments and to establish a
method of procedure for relief and re-
tirement. The bill specifies that the
fund shall be raised from fines imposed
upon members Of the two departments
all rewards and gifts to members OF
the departments. fines and forfeit
iYrfn fhA Dnlio
cept those allowed to the Humane So
ciety. deduction of 1l2 per cent Of the
monthly salary of each member OF the
police and fire departments, and moneys
arising from the sale OF unclaimed prop
erty in the District. 1t is provided that
should these sources prove insufficient
at any time to make up the entire pen
sion fund the collector of taxes of the
District be authorized to place to the
credit of the fund, out of receipts from
all licenses other than liquor licenses,
q sumcient amount to meet the de-
fciency.
Assessment and Taxation.
To amend an act entitled IAN act to
distfnctiyely designate parcels Of land in
the District for the purpose of assess
ment and taxation,
To amend the act regulating child labor
in the District by adding a new sentence
providing that any person violating the
provisions Of sections II, T.. Ia and 15 OF
the act shall be punished by fine not
exceeding s.. and in addition thereto any
permit issued under the provisions Of
these sections may be revoked.
To amend an act making appropriations
for the District for the fiscal year 1893,
SO as to have wild west" dog and
pony shows" and similar shows classed as
a circus.
To authorize the District Commission
ers to suspend and revoke licenses or
permits to pursue any trade, business or
calling. or to do any work where such
licenses and permits are granted, after
an examination to determine the fitness
Of the licensee.
To amend an act of 1904 authorizing the
laying of water mains and service sew
ers in the District, the levying of as
and directs the Commissioners to levy
assessments 70 riaying water main and
service sewers where assessments for
laying such water mains and sewers have
not hitherto been levied or where assess
ments have hitherto been levied but not
in accordance with the provisions Of the
law approved April %. 1904.
Regulation of Corporations.
TO amend section 797a of chapter is of
subchapter Is of the District code of law,
relating to foreign corporations engaged
in business in the District The pro-
posed law would make the regulations
governing such corporations more strin-
gent.
To amend the District code of law re-
garding tile taking Of testimony in equity
and divorce cases and proceedings for the
annulment of marriages in the District.
1t provides that the testimony shall be
taken orally in the presence Of the court,
and makes other regulations.
To regulate the use OF the public
school buildings and grounds OF the Dis
trict by permitting the board OF education
to allow the use of said buildings and
grounds for supplementary educational
purposes for the pupils and others. and
as centers Of recreation and Fairgrounds,
during the school year and during the
vacations.
To amend the law of July 20, 1892,
relating to the construction of build
ings along alleys in the District re-
quiring that dwellings are not to be
built on alleys less than thirty feet in
width. and open all the way through
the block