National Republican (Washington City

The new plan for getting rid of the city's railway and depot difficulties is fully described in another column. It goes from the commissioners who prepared it to the senate committee on the District of Columbia with The Republican's hearty indorsement, and it is not unreasonable to assume that the citizens of Washington will join in declaring in its favor so far as they feel called upon to declare at all. It is formulated in a bill to be enacted into a law at this session if possible, and not the least of the points in its favor is the fact that it gets rid of difficulties without incurring the opposition that has met every attempt at securing a law to compel the roads to join in a union depot. With the encumbering depot and tracks taken off the mall and moved southerly back to business confines, and the Baltimore and Ohio depot set back to Delaware avenue and one of its tracks made to serve all trains from the depot to a junction outside the city, very much is gained on that side of the capitol, and in each case without hardship to the railways. The bill is not one to arouse serious antagonism, for the reason that it is the result of some study of the situation by those who thoroughly understand it.