Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-18
Still Another
Proposition

0G1ll was III Ills TURN, refer
n... red to the District COM
oPo' mittee.. This was for
the incorporation of the Columbia Rail-
way Company. The Star of January Is.
1868, says:
The corporators are Franklin Kenny.
Matthew G. Emery. Samuel Fowler. John
Little. J. c. Mckelvin, Sayles ]. Bowen
and John J. Semmes They are author
lied to lay single or double track rail-
way, commencing at the point on the
east side of 18th street west at its i'll
tersection with F street north thence
along + street north to 9TH street west,
thence on 9TH street west to Louisiana
avenue, thence on Louisiana avenue to
Indiana avenue thence on Indiana aven-
nue. to G street and New Jersey avenue.
thence to Delaware avenue to the Capt.
toll grounds and through the Capitol
grounds to New Jersey avenue south OF
the Capitol. Also from a point on the
north side of Pennsylvania avenue at
the intersection of 9th street west with
said avenue. thence along 9th street west
to boundary street. Fare between the
terminus of said roads TO be :, cents.
The capital stock to be s1e0Goo. in shares
of 500 each. Said capital stock may be
increased to s2OO.Oo0 The cars on the
route from the Capitol and 10Th street
run as often as once in five minutes.
Those on 9Th street as often AS once in
every fifteen minutes. No person to su,-
scribe for himself or for another for more
than 100 shares The road to be COM
pleted in twelve months except that por-
ton between and Boundary Streets
:. !:
From time To time during the civil war
suggestions were made by timorous north
eIners that the federal
Capital capital should be removed
por,o,,,l from Washington, owing
to the possibility of its
capture by the Confcderates This was
not taken seriously. as a rule but evil
IDENTIFY from the following paragraph in
The Star of January Il, 1864. some talk
along this line was regarded as possibly
indicative of definite purpose of re-
moyal:
The New York Journal of Commerce
is alarmed at the statements made that
probably majority OF both houses Of
Congress are in favor of removing the
National Capital to some point farther
northward:
This proposition at the present time
is another firebrand thrown into the
temple of liberty, and comes from those
who are plotting the destruction of the
republic. Even IL this charge We're
unfoundcd the individuals concerned
must be fully aware that the simple
raising of the question now will be
ment as tacit admission that the
restoration of the Union is considered
impossible, or at least is not expected.
1T VIII give new heart to those who
have conspired to destroy this govern
ment and make rebellion still more
formidable. Besides this no subject
would be better fitted to stir up sec
tional prejudices. arraying one part of
the country against the other, as rep
resented on the floor of Congress, and
bringing confusion he mol
councils at a time when unanimity in
all wise measures is of transcendent
Importance. All arguments based on
the assumption that :, removal is nee
eSSary to a greater security amount to
confession of fear and weakness,
which dishonors the noble army, al
ready victorious on a hundred fields.
and successful. holding at bay all the
it. That American who Would not
fight for the capital is unworthy of the
name. Therefore. Washington is at
once the representative and bulwark of
the national life. and should. while
this war lasts. be maintained as i'm
movable as the foundations of the
earth
Efforts to codify the laws III force
i'll the District of Columbia were made
from time to time during a
District long period. but were not
r.1 successful until March, 1901,
when the act of codification
was passed by Congress. In The Star
of January l6. 1864. thirty-seven years
prior to this enactment. is the follow
ing paragraph on the subject:
I'm his report to Congress concerning
the revision and codification of the
laws of the District of Columbia, Mr..
Richard S. Coke refers to the diverse
character of the laws applicable to the
District. on account of its creation from
the state of Virginia, etc, and then
proceeds to give a statement of the
various Intellectual efforts that have
been made to create code for the
District Much time and many heads