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Senator Burkett tried yesterday to get the Dolliver bill, proposing to reorganize the school system of the District, again taken up in the Senate, in order that its consideration, which was begun Thursday, might be concluded. The motion to take the bill up having been made by Mr. Burkett, Senator Nelson, of Minnesota, made the point that to adopt the motion would displace the unfinished business, the hour being after and the Vice President ruled that the point was well taken. Mr. Burkett is determined to have the bill disposed of. one way or another, and is prepared to do all in his power to further its passage. Mr. Nelson and a number of other Senators, who object to the bill. are equally determined that it shall not come to a vote. Amends Bladensburg Road Act. Senator Carter yesterday introduced a bill to amend the act of January 9. 1907, to widen the Bladensburg road. The amendment provides that any property owned by the United States or by the District of Columbia, which is not at present used for road purposes and is needed to carry out the purpose of the act, shall be dedicated to that purpose. The abutments of any bridge or viaduct, and the foundations of any brick dwelling, which are within the line of the improvement, however, are by the amendment preserved from disturbance. It authorizes the District Commissioners to allow any projections which may exist in the line of the widened road to remain, provided they approve applications for such privilege before the jury which is to condemn the right of way shall have been impaneled. Reformatory for Inebriates, Senator Gallinger introduced a bill to make habitual inebriation or addiction to the use of intoxicating liquors a misdemeanor in the District, and providing for a hospital for inebriates, which will be, in effect, a penal institution. The bill provides that any person who may be convicted of habitual drunkenness or habitual use of narcotic drugs shall be subject to a fine of not more than $100 or to not more than two years' incarceration in the inebriate hospital, or both, in the court's discretion, It gives the Commissioners power to provide such a hospital in the District Two other District bills were introduced by Mr. Gallinger. One, which provides for the incorporation of banks in the District, was detailed in The Washington Herald on Sunday The other proposes to require the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company, and the owners of the square east of square 643 to whom Was granted, in 1890. the right to construct a siding from the railroad into the square, or those to whom such right may have passed or been assigned, to remove, within ninety days after the passage of the bill. any siding or part of siding across or in South Capitol street, where such siding may exist at the street grade. and to restore the street to proper condition. A fine of $25 day is provided for failure to comply with the terms of the proposed act Filtration Park Bill Passed, The Senate passed the bill introduced by Senator Smith, of Michigan, providing for the completion of the park surrounding the District filtration plant. The amendments made by the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds were adopted. The bill provides that the Secretary of War or other officer in charge of the plant shall secure by purchase or condemnation any land in square 3126 not now owned by the government of the United States or of the District, and to use it for the purpose covered by the bill. Eight thousand dollars is appropriated for the purpose. The House bill proposing to reimburse depositors of the defunct Freedman's Savings and Trust Company of the District of Columbia for the sums which they lost through the failure of the company was passed by the Senate. The bill provides that the commissioner of the company, or his successors, shall pay, under regulations to be made by the commissioner. such sums as may be found to be due such depositors or their legal representatives, after the accounts have been properly balanced. The beneficiaries are to receive only the actual balances found to be due them, and any sums remaining uncalled for after the lapse of two years from the passage of the act, are to be used to aid in the education of the colored youth of the South, under regulations to be made by the Secretary of the Treasury District Bills Reported, A number of bills which were ordered favorably reported to the Senate at the last meeting of the District Committee, held on Friday, were yesterday submitted in accordance with that action. Senator Long reported the bill to enable the Washington Market Company to construct a siding across Twelfth street southwest, from the adjacent railroad yards to square 328, bounded by Twelfth. Eleventh, E and F streets southwest. on which the company has been authorized to conduct a cold storage and ice manufacturing plant, and to lay a conduit and pipe line across and under Water street from their premises, to enable them to pump water from the Potomac River into the plant. Senator Gallinger reported the bill to regulate private hospitals and asylums in the District. The House report on the bill was adopted by the Senate committee. It advocate the passage of the measure in the general interest. and as in line with advanced legislation for the same purpose in a majority of the States. Vagrancy Bill is Favored. Senator Tillman's bill to regulate vagrancy in the District was also reported by Mr. Gallinger. with a favorable report. The report recommends certain amendments favored by the Commissioners, to include in the definition of vagrants all persons known either by conviction or by their own confession. to be burglars, pickpockets, thieves, or confidence operators, all persons upon whom may be found any instrument or tool used in burglarizing OF committing any other offense against property, and all persons recognized by the common law as vagrants. and also to bar persons accused of vagrancy under the terms of the proposed