Evening star., 1925-02-18

the District appropriation bill, with all
committee amendments approved ex-'
cept one providing $4,000 for the up
keep of a bathing beach for colored
residents at the foot of Seventeenth
street northwest, had been reported
from the committee of the whole to
the Senate.
The bill was laid aside at the re-
quest of Senator Phipps Of Colorado,
In charge of the measure, because
Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Demo-
cratic leader. said there were Sena-
tors absent who wished to discuss the
amendment and that a record vote be
taken on it Senator Walsh of Mon
tana, earlier in the day had called
attention to the project for the bath
ing beach at the foot of Seventeenth
street, and criticized 1t.
Amendme nts Rushed.
The amendments of the Senate ap-
preparation committee, adding $2,000,-
600 to the federal contribution to
the upkeep of the District over the
100000 allowed by the House bill,
and increasing the total appropria-
tion by about $660,000, were approved
by the Senate without debate, and
without opposition. Consideration of
the bill was begun yesterday after
noon, but was halted by speeches on
immigration and Muscle Shoals and
traffic regulation in the District.
When the Senate resumed its session
last night, the Senate put through
the amendments in rapid succession,
with the exception of that for the
colored bathing beach. In objecting
to consideration of the ame ndment
for the colored bathing beach, Sem
ator Robinson indicated there might
be offered an amendment to strike
out the appropriation also for the
white bathing beach on the east side
Of the basin.
Senate committee amendments
adopted last night include those
striking out section of the House
bill, which would compel the submis-
sion Of estimates for the fiscal year
1927 on the basis Of a $9,000,000 Fed
eral contribution by the Federal Gov
ernment and eliminating the provision
for four Police Court judges, as pro-
vided in the House bill.
Attacks Poor Lighting.
Senator Edge of New Jersey ques-
toned Senator Phipps about the items
for street lighting in the District.
He declared that Washington was the
poorest HkuISu ClIy III tAe country
and that many of the traffic accidents
were due to the poor lighting. He
said: g.
"I do not know Of any city in the
country, so far as my personal ex-
perience Is concerned, where the
lighting is as ineffective as it Is in
Washington. At this time on most
of the residential streets old fash
ioned incandescent gas lights are
used exclusively. There will be found
in the business sections of the city
electric lights, and in some parts of
the residential sections, there are
electric lights. If we are to have
any successful results under the
traffic legislation that we are enl
deavoring to pass, we must have bet
ter lighting in the city. Riding down
the streets Of Washington after dark,
one cannot help realizing that at
every intersecting street there is the
same type of light that is to be found
between the intersections, making it
practically impossible, unless one
happens to be intimately acquainted
with the topography of the city, to
realize when he Is at or approaching
a street Intersection. The lights are
dim; the globes in most cases are
coated globes. / am sure that every
member of the Senate will recognize
the fact that casualties through mo-
tor accidents occur to some extent
or are attributable to the very ineffec-
tive lighting system in vogue in the
city.
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