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POTOMAC ROAD BRIDGE

Lettecs From Architects Sentto Capitol Urging Pres-

ervation of Mall

Senator Paris Gibson of Montanaoccupied th attention of the Senatethis afternoon in a long speech pn thebill introduced by him for the repealof the desert land and the andtimber acts and the commutationclause of the homestead act

A notewortlY Incident of the Sena-tors speech was the Interest shown Inhis remarks by Republican SenatorsMr Gibsons desk is in the front row

the Democratic side and many ofhis colleagues from Western Statescrossed the chamber and took seaUclose to him listening attentively

The Potomac BridgeAn extension of time for the comple-

tion of the highway bridge over the

Senate today in the fucsage of jointresolution No 96 presented by Mr Gallinger and favorably from theCommittee on Commerce The rosolution was amended se as to include ap-proaches

Shortly after ooav nin the Senatepassed a Joint reaoiutiwn ordcrliiK theprinting of OW n laws

A bill was passed authorizing the Sec-retary of War to tunas for thepurposed improvement Trinity RicrTexas

Would Preserve MalLTypewritten letters of a form sent

out by architects in support of tit Sen-ate Park Commission plan for

of the Mall have been coming toSenator from all parta of thecountry

A mftnber of these wers presented iir

George Foster Peabody 4were to theAppropriations Cdmmlttee

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New District BuildingOn the Original Plan

Official Think It May Be Ready for Occu-pancy on Christmas Day

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he District Government will have aajts Christmas present in 1905 a nicenew building which will be a credit to the National Capital

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Unless the conference committee onthe District appropriation bill changesthe provision in the measure or the newMunicipal Building as reported tq theSenate the excavations for the founda-tion of the structure will be begun onJune 15 This will insure its completion-by December 15 1905 making it onlythreo months later than had been esti-mated by the District Engineer Depart-ment prior to the holdup of the planby the House

Architects Cope and Stewardson ofPhiladelphia have assured the DistrictEngineers that they can have the entireplans for the structure hero within tendays after they have been Informed thatthe original plans for the building areto prevail without the addition of thePollco Court and several other officesnot provided for in the first drawings

After the reception of the plans the

PRESIDENT WILL OPEN

Will Press Button to Start Machinery-of Worldts Fair April 30

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President Roosevelt today acceded tothe request of tho Louisiana PurchaseExposition Company that he press thebutton that will start the machinery ofthe Worlds Fair at St Louis

The ceremony will take place In theexecutive offices of the White House at1 oclock p m Washington time ISnoon St Louis time on April 30 Themembers of the Cabinet will probablybe present and a picture ofof officials will be made forat the fair

BUBONIC PLAGUE BREAKSOUT IN THE TRANSVAAL

PRETORIA Transvaal Colony Marchbubonic plague has appeared

liere There has been oneLONDON March 24 Lord Mllne-

rKh commissioner for South Africatelegraphs that the plague Is well inhand and Is confined to the aoolle popu-lation The mining area Is so far un-affected

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officials will draw up their specificationsfor the letting of the contract for thebuilding This work will be completedbefore the last of April Then bids willbe called for a of thirtydays After the awarding of the contract the contractors will be allowed tohave ten days in which to prepare forthe beginning of the work

Thus June 15 is a liberal estimate forthe date of commencing the buildingand it Is possible that the first groundwill be that time Beforethe changes In the had been made

House the architects had

the now the onlything is to put the finishingtouches on designs for the super-structure

The opinion is that the newMunicipal Building not be marredwith the additions proposedby the House The District engineersshare this idea and it is now thoughtthat so far as this point is concernedthe rest will be clear sailing

SENTENCED TO PRISON

Masse and Mauranne Swore HusbandDied First But Subsequent Testi-

mony Proved Different

PARIS March 34 The court whichhas been hearing evidence in connectionwith the Fair will case today

Frederic Masse and LouisMauranne the two cyclists who gavefalse evidence by deposition In the hear

in New York to three years inprison and to pay a line of 60 francs

Masse and Mauranne testified thatthey had seen the Fairs killed and thatMr Fair had been the first to expireSubsequent testimony proved that thetwo were not on the scene when the accident occurred

BELGIANS WANT DUTYON AMERICAN SHOES

BRUSSELS March importa-tion of American boots and shoes intoBelgium has Increased so rapidly thatthe native factories are petitioning thegovernment to place on them a prohibi-tive duty

A great amount of capital Is alreadyinvested in the trade

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HIS IMPLACABLE OPPOSITIONSHOWN IN IRONICAL REMARKS

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The M Street cross town railway proJoct of the Great Falls and Old Domin-ion Railway Company was consideredtoday at d public hearing before theSenate District Commfttee

Every member of the committee waspresent and about fifty citizens interest-ed in District matters crowded aboutthe room and entrances Prominentamong them in addition to those whospoke on the bill were Gen George HHarries Thomas W Smith D R MeKce Frank Hume and Barry Bulkely The members of the committee whoqueried the speakers most frequentlywore Senators Foraker Dubois GormanSimmons Hansbrough Mallory antiGallinger chairman

After an opening argument In favoror the bill the greater part of the

was taken up by President Dunlop of the Capital Traction CompanyHe went into details of local street rail-way legislation since 1S62 and mademany sharp observations upon the In-vasion of the rights of his corporationHe plainly surprised several Senatorsby a bold declaration that the Old Dominion Company could not have gottenpermission to have crossed the Aque-duct Bridge and get into the DistrictIf his company had objected

That Is a reflection upon Congresspromptly commented Chairman GalilnGor and Mr Dunlop revised his answer

Citizens Ready to FightThere was clear indication tpSay of a

sharp conflict in prospect between thejtr trrailwajl cfimpan s tamr5-

tlje representatives of the citizens as-sociations when the latter are heard bythe Senate Committee

Thomas W Smith called attention tothe fact that Mr Dunlop was exhausting nil the time of the hearing and

he wished to make a strong reply and ask some pertinent questionsChairman Gallinger assured Mr Smiththat opportunity would be given himon Saturday morning to which time ad-journment would be taken

Argument for CompanyExSanator Marion of North

Carolina appeared as counsel for therailway company and was the firstspeaker

There are only two questions at issue said Mr Butler First is thereneed for a crosstown road second whitroute should be selected

The first question needs no argu-ment It Is admitted that a crosstownroad is a prime necessity The Commis-sioners have submitted a substitute bill

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saying the original bill needsAll that the company asks la

privileges equal to those heretoforegiven to other companies-

Mr Butler suggested an amendmentthat all be put on the same basis

such an arrangement would beentirely satisfactory to sec-tion 4 of the original bill empowering-the company to exercise in the Districtall the rights it has in Virginia Attorney Butler admitted that he notif a member of the Senate committee-be in favor of so drastic a section Itcould be made applicable only to theDistrict he said in plain phraseology-and thus remove all the objectionsagainst the section Otherwise it wouldbe necessary to include 100 or moresmall Items in the bill thus leadingmore to confusion than to clarifying thepurposes of the bill

The Route DiscusedThe question of M or L Street as the

was discussed at length by MrButler

The road must go somewhere hesaid and If every individual objection-is upheld there will never be anotherstreet railway in the District of Colum-bia If there were no street railway onConnecticut Avenue today and a

were made to build one rthere would be the same objection asthere Is now to M Street But now thatthe Connecticut Avenue road Is builtno one would want it taken away

L Street would not be an advisableroute for these reasons The streetwould have to be widened from end toend all through the city cutting downall the shade trees taking away theparking from in front of the adjacenthouses changing a sewer and two un-derground water mains and makinggeneral alteration necessary On MStreet these objections would not holdgoodThe company is willing to take anyroute the Senate committee may namebut we It wilt be M Street and vnsuggest that the regulationsbe made as simple as possible We haveno objection to any provisions whichare made applicable as well toroads Section 22 of the Commissioners-bill placing all schedules undercontrol is not objectionable It madeto apply to all companies

Urges Competition-The only other objection of the Com

missioners is that it would be betterfor existing lines to be extended

those companies could build theroad more cheaply and operate it morecheaply Is that any matter for thepublic We think wo coulfl build andoperate it Just as cheaply

Is it not better to have an Inde-pendent competing company buHd theroad at once rather than wait untilthe present company thinks an

of lInes worth whileto traffic A new company

will have to give good service or Itcannot make road pay If the roadid built by the existing company it will

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cars would not be run frequentlyenough to build a good trafficthen the company would say the putron-aeft did not warrant better car service

The only assurance of a good crostown service is in giving equal privilegest a new company which will have togive good service to make road apaying investment There is a nrrufog such a road and the new companyhi full confidence that this committeewill consider nil site facts stated infairness to its interests and to thecity

Opposition From DunlopPresident George T Dunlop spoke next

in behalf of the Capital Traction Com-pany He said his company protestedagainst the granting of the privilegesasked by the new company because itvas an invasion of their rights par tNtfortytwo years ago No local organi-zation had done so much for the progreen of Washington he said as therailway company of which he is now thedirecting head

Mr Dunlop went into great detail indescribing the Inlon Station in George-town and how it was constructed Hesaid a cut of sixtytwo feet had to bomade in solid rock to build such a

He said Major Powellwhose supervision the work was doneInsisted upon a retaining wall sixtytwofeet high and eleven feet thick to holdup the solid rock buck of it

Repartee in CommitteeThe legislation under which the Old

Dominion road got permission to oro sthe Aqueduct Bridge to Georgetown wasdescribed by Mr Dunlop He said it wasbad I gi8fetto wMeb had permitted that

JBut you 4Idnt otgeot to thlation coming before Congress didyou he asked

Because I thought I had more Influence in not coming before Congressreplied Mr Dunlop

Well you were mistaken werentyou asked Mr Foraker the bill wasaassed

I dont think it would have beenpassed if we had objected boldly asserted Mr Dunlop

That is a reflection on Congress 1think put in Chairman Galllnger

Well Ill take that back added MDunlop 111 say It would not have beendone with our consent

Dunlop on HopeMr Dunlop said he thought Congrsj

would consider well before granting theprivileges asked by the new company

We can only present our side hawhich ve think is a strong one

and hope only hope Is sometimes a lit-tle to rely on

Hope deferred maketh the heartsick quoth Chairman Galliinger

Yes we get very sick at some de-lays responded Mr Dunlop

Asked whether the new road wouldpay Mr Dunlop answered

There would not be enough passen-gers hauled in a year to payoil on the wheels of the cars neededto them from Virginia to theUnion Station

New Road AttackedMr Dunlop made some strong inti-

mations about the purpose of the peoplewho are back of the new road Hafinally said when pressed by Mr Hansbrough that the new road was merely-a stockJobbing enterprise

He said all suburban roads went intobankruptcy and that the new roadwould not pay in the lifetime of anypersons present at the hearing Ho

he said from his own ex-perience in suburban lines The ChevyChase line had lost 15009 a year andhad now been brought down to a lossof 11609 a year It would be the samewith a new road It would lose moneysurely and would be built only to raisethe value ef suburban land

Hard on PromotersThe speaker saM that promoters as

usual got between the people whoowned the existing suburbui KMOSthe city lines and made dickerTheres not one of those promoters

here today he said Some rf themhve gone to Abyssinia and Jther planesbut none of them stayed around afterthey sold their grabhas

Chairman Galllnger said under-stood Mr Dunlups comoany had alsooone a little promoting

Yes but only among its own stock-holders replied Mr Dunlop I never

on my back any load I think I cannot carry We formed 4000009 bondsand JSOOOOO cupfUl Where would wehave been in H ttttte soueex In WallStreet We gOt from under that propo-sition as quickly as possible

One Management UrgedAll of these roads should be

one management declared Mr Dunlop Then the city could have the bestrailway service in the world The othercompanies could be better operatesunder a They gotrecent consolidation not knowing whenthey were going when they took In the

roads They bought up allthe companies tea or eleven of themThey bought up ail the cats and dogsthey find

Free Transit OfferedMr Dunlop declared that his road

would meet all offers to the people madeby the proposed road

And it will bo done on tasy termsconcluded Mr Dunlop

What do you mean by 4euy termsasked Mr Gorman less than sixtickets for a quarter

Yes well take if we have to dqit for nothing replied Mr Dunlop

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