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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1909
Page
36
City measures move to subcommittees with several drafts calling for a Public Utilities Commission in the District. Proposals affect liquor traffic to the capital and seek authorization or oversight changes.
In Congress and Senate committees, Mr Scott seeks to buy park tracts on Carpenter and Pennsylvania Avenue Heights. Measures introduced to extend Franklin Street to Bladensburg road and prohibit District and Congress officials from owning public service stocks. Talks address substation location for Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington Railroad, gas regulation, health and plumb regulations, and a municipal code for the District.
Senate moved to call up the urgent deficiency appropriation bill on Monday while President transmitted the Treasury’s report on expenditures from the $28 million emergency fund. The administration backed the National Conservation Commission report and recommendations. The House passed the naval appropriation bill, promoting two new battleships, with one clash over restoring marines aboard ships. Fortifications and Indian appropriations moved. DC school retirement funds and child-labor act updates discussed. district land for Jackson School and eight-hour day for laborers covered. Subcommittees for District committees listed with chairmen and members.
Representative Sims of Tennessee reintroduced a bill to bar District of Columbia and Congress officials from owning stocks and bonds in public service corporations. The measure was sent to the judiciary committee, which tabled it at Thursday’s meeting. Sims argued such holdings conflict with public duties. Senate actions included urban street extensions, Lincoln portrait purchase, and land acquisitions for a new path at Branch and Pennsylvania Avenues. A railway substation site plan was introduced for Seventh and C streets with tight construction deadlines.
House appropriations panel reports a fortifications bill with only 7.92 million for next year, far below the 500 thousand requested for military aeronautics. Coast batteries in the Philippines and others receive reduced sums, while seed money for modernizing emplacements is pared, and funds for Fort Myer tests come from the Ordnance Board.
About a dozen distinguished men from several states risk $1000 fines for carrying the presidential electors ballots to Washington. Each state must send two copies of its vote, one by messenger and one by mail. Most votes have arrived by mail except Arkansas and North Carolina, with others still due by the fourth Monday in January. Mississippi is the only state whose vote has not arrived by either method.
The dispatch calls for repeating key acts including end waste measures, reform of desert land and public land rules, and separating surface rights from minerals. It urges regulating public grazing to conserve value, withdrawing coal oil gas and phosphate rights from entry, and establishing a mines bureau. The report highlights massive mineral waste in 1907 and urges broader land reform, forestry protection, and agricultural expansion.
After a Senate debate Mr Dick's resolution making February 12 a Lincoln centennial holiday was adopted but expanded to signal a future memorial. An amendment by Mr Knox to create a highway the Lincoln Way from Washington to Gettysburg sparked division and was approved. Amendments to extend the road to Manassas or Richmond were defeated amid objections to federal eminent domain.
Professor John Joly of University of Dublin argues radium may power the earth's heat. He presents a new theory and will publish his first general statement in Harper's Magazine.
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