United States Congressional Serial Set Volume 3289 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...a large amount of money and the employment of labor. It also meaus an increase in the taxable values of property along the route and increased revenues to the District. Not to build it simply means to confiscate the money which has already been expended by the company, as well as the time and labor involved in securing adequate funds with which to complete the work. Yonr subcommittee agreed at its meeting on Thursday to make a favorable report to the full committee. They have, however, and as we think without good reason, so amended the route selected by the full committee of the House that the charter if granted would not be as acceptable to the public or the company as it would impair the value of the franchise aud endanger the passage of the bill in the House. The report of the subcommittee was not acted upon at the meeting of the full committee on Friday, because, as we are informed, a representative of the Columbia road asked that no action be taken pending legislation in the House to extend that road over a valuable part of the territory now occupied by the charter of the District of Columbia Suburban Railway. In this connection we bug to state for your information that last May, when the commit tec, of the House was considering the extension of the charter for the District of Columbia Suburhan Railway, the representatives of the Columbia road opposed the extension and used every argnment against it; and when they discovered that the full committee intended to make a unanimous report in favor of extending the charter of the District of Columbia Suburban Knilway, asa last resort they introduced in the House a bill to extend the Columbia road along the Bladensburg pike, which was already covered in the franchise of the District of...