The Senate District of Columbia Committee favorably reported bill the March 12. Although the city commissioners opposed the bill, arguing that it stripped the city of its procedures for securing eminent domain established in the Act of March 2, 1893. Representatives from PHC enthusiastically endorsed it. Senator McMillan, an initial supporter of the Hawley bill, now opposed it as too expensive. This doomed the Senate legislation. A companion to the Hawley bill, H.B.6788, was also opposed by the city commissioners. But on April 23, 1896, the D.C. Court of Appeals struck down the eminent domain assessment procedures established by the Act of March 2, 1893.