Evening star., 1921-11-02
OUTSIDERS READY
TO TAKE OVER D. c.
PUBLIC UTILITIES
Representatives Say Inter-
ests Will Guarantee to Give
I Five-Cent Carfares.
immense RESOURCES"
ARE BACK OF OFFER
PROPOSAL to- Be Presented to House
District Committee at
Next Meeting.

A definite proposal for outside in
taking over the public utilities in the
District under guarantee to give
five-cent carfare, is to be made at the
next meeting of the House District
committee, it was announced at the
meeting today by Representatives
of Illinois, who appealed to the COM
mittee to delay action on street rail,
way legislation until this proposal
could be considered.
Both Representative Hammer and
Representative kunz. with great
earnestness, told the committee tney
believed this proposition was worthy
of most earnest consideration ana
that it looked like the most attrac-
tive proposition" they had seen. They
were both pledged to secrecy until
the parties behind this proposal could
appear before a subcommittee or be-
fore the full District committee in
executive session.
Lively Committee Session.
The meeting of the committee today
was test between those supporting
Mr. Hammer and Mr.. kunz in their
effort for delay until this proposal could
or consideration of the re-dratted
Woods bill containing some changes
over the measure recommitted several
weeks ago by the House. Several test
votes were taken to show the strength
of these opposing factions in the COM
mxttee, which resulted in a tie.
At the opening of the meeting Repre-
sentative Kunz was defeated in an eff
fort to get a postponement. Represent
alive Woods then explained the changes
which he had made in his bill over
those provisions which had been OBJ
iected to on the floor of the House.
Several members of the committee, in
Guiding Representatives Sproul Of Illi-
nois, Lambert of Wisconsin, Hammer OF
North Carolina and kunz Of Illinois.
stated positively that they did not be-
leve there was any chance of the Woods
bill passing. even in the revised FORM
and they thought it a waste Of time to
consider its provisions at any length In
committee.
Representative Lampert of Wiscon-
sin made a motion to substitute for
consideration the Keller bill which
provides for municipal ownership and
operation. This motion failed to
carry.
Hammer Bill Substituted.
Representative Hammer endeavored
to have substituted for consideration
a bill which he had drafted which
does not contain, he said, any pro-
vision for repeal of the public utili-
ties act, but which does contain
amendments suggested in speeches on
the floor of the House. The commit
tee by vote of to s declined to take
up the Hammer bill as substitute.
Provision that, pending a merger.
street railway companies whose
racks ,intersect shall be required to-
issue universal transfers at certain
points of intersection to be desis-
mated by the Public Utilities Com
mission was favorably acted upon by
sentative Lampert of Wisconsin as
Another amendment, also offered by
Representative Lampert, and adopted
by vote of 8 to +. would change
the Woods bill so as to provide for
Il fiat carfare of Z cents. with four
tickets for a quarter. Both of these
provisions were taken from the Ham,
mer bill after the committee had voted
not to substitute the Hammer bill
for the Woods bill.
Final Action Delayed.
Final action on the railway bills was
carried over automatically to next
meeting, when the committee ad-
journed to permit members to go
into the House.
Before the committee took up con-
sideration Of the street railway ques-
ton it ordered a favorable report on
Millspaugh of Missouri at the request
of Judge Sellers of the Juvenile Court
covering the care of illeglt1mate chill
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