Mr. WADE. I move to take up Senate bill No. 272, which provides for ornamenting the streets of the city of Washington. It was pre. o the ComDistCol last year, but the season slipped by and it was too late.. Unless the bill is. very soon it will be of no use whatever at this season. The motion was agreed to; and the bill (S.No.272) authorizing the corporation of Washington to reduce the width and improve the avenues and streets of that city was considered as in ComWhole. The bill recites that in consequence of the eat width of many of the streets and avenues in the city of Washington the cost of paving thereof falls opPressively upon the property fronting thereon; and for the purpose of reducing such expenses and improving the streets and avenues it is provided that full power and authority be conferred upon the corporation of Washington to Prescribe and regulate the width and method of improvement of the car. riage ways and footways, and of all that portion of the surface not included in carriage ways or footways, of all streets or avenues in the city of Washington which exceed in width 100 feet. An amendment was proposed by the ComDistCol, to strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: That power and authority be, and hereby are, conferred upon the corporation of Washington, subject to such limitations and restrictions as Congress may from time to time Prescribe, to regulate the widt and method of improvement of the carriage ways and footways, and of all that portion of not included the surface in carriage ways or footways, of all streets or avenues in the city of Washington which exceed ining Pennsylvania naevhe unuder aenddfe the at, tsapvoirntgioannodfeLxocueipsti ana avenue between 4th and 5th streets west, and such streetsand other avenuesas are now occupied or by law authorized to be occupiedby railroads, according to the following plan, namely: the paved or carriage way shall be in the center of the street or avenue and 40 feet wide between the curbs. The pavementson eachside thereof shall be 15 feet wide. The steps shall not extend more than 7feet beyond the building lines, and the residue of the street or avenue between the points already designated shall bereservedfor treesand shrubbery; one row of trees to be planted in the pavements, 2 fpeaertawlleitlhin the line of the curbs, and another row to the 1st on the residuesaforesaid. Sec. 2. Abife:, That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.