FIRE ESCAPES FOR HOTELS.
Mr. Schwetzer's bill [H. R. 50], for an act requiring the keepers of certain hotels or lodging houses to provide certain protections against fire (fire escapes, etc.,) declaring violations thereof misdemeanors, and prescibing penalties therefor, was read the third time. [The bill provides that the keepers and owners of hotels two or more stories high shall provide and keep in good order a fire escape in each room; also a watchman on duty to arouse the guests of the building in case of fire. The terms of the bill make it a misdemeanor for the violation of the act.]
On motion by Mr. NEFF, the emergency clause was stricken from the bill.
The bill then passed--yeas, 80; nays, 0.
