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68TH CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT
93d Session J No. 1498
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TRAFFIC BILL
FEBRUARY 16, 1925.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
state of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. RATHBONE, from the Committee on the District of Columbia,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H. R. 12126]
The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred
the bill (H. R. 12126) to provide for the regulation of motor-vehicle
traffic in the District of Columbia, increase the number of judges of
the police court, and for other purposes, having had the same under
consideration, reports favorably thereon without amendment and
recommends that the bill do pass.
At the present session of the Congress the Committees of the Dis-
trict of Columbia of the Senate and of the House of Representatives,
in joint meetings during the months of December, 1924, and January,
1925, held further hearings at which the views of nationally prominent
traffic experts and administrators were obtained as to the best pos-
sible method of meeting by leislation the traffic conditions such
as at present obtain in the District of Columbia.
ENLARGEMENT OF POLICE COURT
As a result of the survey and hearings the need for enlargement of
the police court so as to provide means and facilities for the hearing
at separate sessions of the police court of traffic cases exclusively is
determined by your comittee to be of the utmost importance.
More than 50,000 cases are brought to the police court each year and
the dockets are at present overcrowded to such an extent that a court
with two police judges can not meet the situation. The population
of the District has almost doubled within the past 25 years and the
problems of traffic control have been much complicated in this period
by the advent of the motor vehicle. An increase of two additional
police judges is the minimum that the Congress should grant if the
work of this court is to be administered promptly and efficiently.
Section 3 of the bill provides that there shall be four police judges,](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.beal/tbcd0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)