Evening star., 1924-03-13
WATER FAMINE PERIL IN ID. C..
CITED IN CONDUIT FUND PLEA
Report Board of Trade Urges s., 500, 900 Appro-
priation for Next Fiscal Year-SeIt- Government
for District FAVORED by Judge PeelIe

from this proposed plant. particularly
for a number of years, until the plant
is fully loaded. Certainly. if this
power cannot be developed and sold
developing power from the Benning
plant such a project will not meet
with the approval of the citizens of
Washington. # this project is car,
will ultimately, directly or indirectly,
pay a large part of the total cost, and
therefore we are all vitality inter-
ested in knowing that the project is
an economic standpoint. We recon-
mend that this project be reviewed
hy a board of eminent and ex-
perienced disinterested engineers be-
fore the project is either hnaily ap-
proved or rejected"
Report Is Adopted.
The report was unanimously
adopted.
The board also approved the re-
port of the special committee on
rent legislation. which was read by
William T. Galliher, member or the
committee 1t already has been pre-
sented to the committees in Con-
gress and made public and recon- :
mends that If Congress fines it
should not be done for period
greater than one year.
Joshua Evans, jr., reporting for
the committee on, municipal finance,
recommended imm ediate tax reduc-
tions. The report was adopted.
Fred G. Coldren, chairman of the
committee on parks and reservations,
| brought in a report containing sew
cral resolutions. all Of which were
unanimously adopted without de-
bate. One resolution urges the
necessity of extending the improve
ment of the Anacostia river flats
above the Bennings bridge, and fur
| ther urges that the provision here
tofore included in the appropriation
acts limiting the improvements to
the flats below the bridge be eltmi-
| mated in the appropriations for the
| coming year.
Another resolution puts the board
| on record as actively supporting and
| urging an early survey of the banks
or the Potomac river from the High
way bridge on the Virginia side and
the Key bridge on the Washington
side TO Great Falls; also a survey of
| an appropriate fort boulevard, con-
| Meeting the civil war forts in the out
sklrts OF Washington, with a view to
| Iuture deveiopments for park and
parkway purposes.
/ Another resolution urges that Con-
gress include in the pending appro-
priation bills an appropriation of
| 100000. to be Immediately available,
20 eHApie the cn1ef OF engineers to
promptly construct a roadway. on
| Piney branch from 14th street. under
the Tiger bridge, to Rock Creek park
way, and to construct such a park
way from the Geological Park to the
mouth of Rock creek, and thence to
/ Potomac Park.
The committee called attention to
| the point that such a roadway would
! relieve much of the traffic congestion
now existing.
| :, The board adopted the report of
4 the committee ON insurance and fire
protection which was presented by
| Davis M. Lea, chairman, which urges
the adoption of the Underhill work
| mems compensation measure for the
4 District on the ground that 1t carries
out sthe American principle Of equal
opportunities for all and favoritism
for none. 1t opposes the Fitzgerald
measure.
Judge Peelle spoke on present-day