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compensation, respectively, as may be appropriated for by Congress from year to year. (R. S., sec. 1821.)

PAY TO CEASE WHILE SUSPENDED.

Hereafter, whenever a member of the Capitol police or watch force is suspended from duty for cause, said policeman or watchman shall receive no compensation for the time of such suspension if he shall not be reinstated. (Stat. L., vol. 18, p. 345.)

CAPTAIN MAY SUSPEND ANY MEMBER OF FORCE.

The captain of the Capitol police may suspend any member of the force, subject to the approval of the two Sergeants at Arms and of the Architect of the Capitol extension. (R. S., sec. 1823. Stat. L., v. 17, p. 488; v. 18, pp. 86, 345.)

UNIFORMS AND SUPPLIES.

The Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives are directed to select and regulate the pattern for a uniform for the Capitol police and watchmen and to furnish each member of the force with the necessary belts and arms, at a cost not to exceed twenty dollars per man, payable out of the contingent fund of the Senate and House of Representatives upon the certificate of the officers above named. (R. S., sec. 1824; Stat. L., vol. 15, p. 11.)

The members of the Capitol police shall furnish, at their own expense, each his own uniform, which shall be in exact conformity to that required by regulation of the Sergeants at Arms. (R. S., sec. 1825; Stat. L., vol. 15, p. 94.)

And the officers, privates, and watchmen of the Capitol police shall when on duty wear the regulation uniform. (Stat. L., vol. 31, p. 90, 1-56.)

Supervision over Botanic Garden.

The supervision of the Capitol police shall be extended over the Botanical Garden, and, until otherwise ordered, and especially during the period employed for rebuilding the fence surrounding the grounds, additional police force may be employed, if deemed necessary, the expense for which shall be defrayed from the contingent fund of the Senate and House of Representatives; but the additional number of policemen for this purpose shall not exceed three at any time. (R. S., sec. 1826; S. L., v. 16, p. 391.)

Proposed reduction of force.

Mr. RANDALL. The chairman of the Committee on Appropriations will remember that last year an effort was made to reduce the number of Capitol police; in fact, I think we did make a partial reduction.

Mr. GARFIELD. A reduction in salary, not in number.

Mr. RANDALL. I am of the opinion that there are now too many employed on the Capitol police. We may as well commence here to reduce them for the next year. I therefore move to reduce the number of privates from 27 to 20. That will not affect anybody now in office or those likely to be employed, but rather those who will come in with the next Congress.

Mr. GARFIELD. This is the only thing that will not come under control of the next House.

Mr. RANDALL. The committee will observe that while there is joint action, so far as the appointment and payment of these police is concerned, yet each House has the control of its own officers.

Mr. GARFIELD. Oh, yes; each House has control of its own officers; but there are three persons who control the Capitol police.

Mr. RANDALL. I was last year of the opinion (and I have not changed my view) that 20 men are sufficient for this force. I therefore move to amend by striking out "seven" after "twenty."

The number remained unchanged. (Cong. Record, vol. 3, pt. 1, 2-43, p. 86.)

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62D CONCRESS, 1st Session.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. No. 35.

REPORT

EXTENSION AND WIDENING OF COLORADO AVENUE AND KENNEDY STREET NW.

MAY 18, 1911.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. JOHNSON of Kentucky, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 8649.]

The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 8649) to authorize the extension and widening of Colorado Avenue NW. from Longfellow Street to Sixteenth Street, and of Kennedy Street NW. through lot No. 800, square No. 2718, report the same back to the House with the recommendation that it do pass. This bill was introduced at the request of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, who submitted the draft of the same, with the following statement of their reasons for requesting its passage: OFFICE COMMISSIONERS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Washington, April 15, 1911.

Hon. BEN JOHNSON,

Chairman of Committee on District of Columbia,

House of Representatives.

SIR: The Commissioners of the District of Columbia have the honor to inclose herewith a draft of a bill entitled "A bill to authorize the extension and widening of Colorado Avenue northwest from Longfellow Street to Sixteenth Street, and of Kennedy Street northwest through lot numbered eight hundred, square twentyseven hundred and eighteen," and to request that it be enacted.

A blueprint is inclosed upon which is indicated, in red, the land proposed to be condemned under the provisions of the bill. The estimated cost of this land is $17,538, and the bill provides that the total cost, together with the expenses of the condemnation proceedings, shall be assessed by the jury on the surrounding and abutting property as benefits.

The extension and widening of Colorado Avenue, as proposed in the bill, is believed to be very desirable. This avenue is becoming an important thoroughfare between Fourteenth and Sixteenth Streets, and should be opened to the full width of 120 feet, as laid down in the highway extension plans, before the increase in the value of the land or the erection of improvements would make the cost prohibitive. The land to be taken for the widening is divided into a number of small holdings, and it is impracticable to acquire it by dedication.

The widening of Kennedy Street is also desirable. This street is now open between Fourteenth and Sixteenth Streets with the exception of a small triangular part of lot 800, square 2718, and it has been found impossible to acquire this small portion by dedication. The District appropriation act for the fiscal year 1912 contains an appropriation of $5,600 for grading and improving this street between Fourteenth and Sixteenth Streets, and unless this small piece of land is acquired the street can not be improved to its full width at Sixteenth Street.

Very respectfully,

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62D CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 1st Session.

GERTRUDE M. HUBBARD

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MAY 19, 1911.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. SLAYDEN, from the Committee on the Library, submitted the

following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 9833.]

The Committee on the Library, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 9833) providing for the acceptance of and funding the bequest of Gertrude M. Hubbard, having considered the same, report it to the House with the following amendment:

Strike out all of section 3 and substitute therefor the following:

SEC. 3. That in compliance with said conditions the principal of the sum so received and paid into the Treasury of the United States shall be set apart and credited on the books of the Treasury Department as a perpetual trust fund; and the sum of eight hundred dollars, being equivalent to four per centum on the principal of said trust fund, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. and such appropriation shall be deemed a permanent annual appropriation and shall be expended in the manner and for the purposes herein authorized, and as provided in the said bequest.

As amended the committee recommend that the bill do pass. The bequest is for the enlargement of a collection already (in 1898) accepted by Congress and now in the possession of the Library.

March 21, 1898, Mrs. Gertrude M. Hubbard, in a letter to John Russell Young, the Librarian of Congress, offered to the Library, for the benefit of the people of the United States, the collection of engravings made by the late Gardiner Greene Hubbard, stating that it was in accordance with the wishes of her husband. She also said that she wanted a gallery in the Library set aside and devoted to the collection to be known as the Gardiner Greene Hubbard Gallery. She also declared her purpose to add to the collection from time to time and to provide in her will for its further increase by leaving an endowment fund of $20,000.

It was not practicable to meet the condition that a special gallery in the Library be set aside and exclusively devoted to the collection, and Mrs. Hubbard waived that demand.

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