Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-06-20
Proposed Appropriations.

Among the amend nlsnts t. the appropriation
bill as reported back to the Senate by the Com
mittee on Appropriations, are the following:
For the purchase Of ar engine and machinery.
AID Tor the erection and penses incident TO its
operation, for the macer a. on of national bank
notes, CnitId States notes. ana other obi alton
OF the nlted States authorized TO be destroyed
$1,000 For the erection of hn equestrian statue
OF Nathaniel Greene, so 90. To enable the
Joint Committee on the Library to purchase
such works OF art for OrBanentins the ClpItoi
enable the Secretary of the Navy ID complete
the observations of the transit of Venus, in De-
cember, 1874, and to return the parties OF
observation to the United States, S25 900.
For the District of Columbia, the sam OF
81 500 900, to be expended by the commissioners
OF said District, and applied follows: First, to
lhe Pay melt OF interest or the funded debt OF
SAD District due July IT. 1874; econdy, to the
pay melt OF officers, employees, and labOrers OF
the District, whether OF the District proper or
OF TIE Board Of Public Works; and the remain
Ger 10 The current Expenses OF said District, all
the above sums, excerpt so much thereof as may
be paid fer interest, "a aforesaid to be cam
sidered ana adjusted hereafter As part of the
proper Proportional sum to be paid by the
United States towards the expen ses of the gov
err ment of the District OF Columbia. For
lathing AID plastering the under surface of the
roof above the ceiling of the Senate chamber
Si,tO0. For replacing the defective portion OF
The ROOF on The Capitol. near the dome, by q
copper roofing of fre-proof construction,
ard for erecting frc-walls, SIS, 900. For a
stead, Of New York; VIM. Hammond Hall,
Of San Francisco, and H. W. s. Cleveland, OF
chicago. TO consider and report to Congress- at
t ne n. At sess on by what economical measures
the greatest public value may be given 70 the
connected series OF government grounds. in
c'uoipg these OF the Cspitoi aud those of the
Executive MANSION, the sum OF sl,5O1. For
Improvement Of Capitol grounds, according 70
the plans and under the general direction OF
Fred. Law Olmstead, to Re expended By the
Architect of the Capitol. 100000 For the pur-
M ~ srC ntf n
tol building, a suitabl engine house and stable,
10 Aupply the place Of engine house Ne. 3, re-
Gently ordered removed by Congress, SIS 900
For extending court house (old City H Ally in
Tue city OF Washington, in accordance with
plebs OF The Architect of the Capitoi, to be ap-
Proved by the Secretary of the Interior for the
accomInOc atom CT the District courts, Court Of
claims, and the Pension Office, and for m king
the rec sssry repairs TO the old building 600
TO pay the Indebtedness incurred and now due
and To pay, in part, the expenses of the reform
schoo of the District Of ColU mbia, for the fiscal
year Dding juno 30th, 1875, It being for food
AID clothing or the boys in said school, the
sum OF GOO, TO be ded acted from any money
hereafter appropriated for the District Of Co
lumt1a. For continuing the work on the cree
uon, and hitting up the buildings, of the insti-
tuition, In accordance with plans heretofore
submitted to Congress, s2s, O0o For the
Women's Christian Association of the District
OF Columbia, S25 900; to be expended for the
sole pun pose of erecting q building. For the
Little Sisters Of the Poor OF Washington CITY,
TO Equidats debt on the building ami To com
plete said building, S25, eco. For the national
association for the relief of the cs,ored women
and children of the District of Columbia.
$4,000. For improving the portion of franklin
Square on X street lately added to those
eIounds and for grading and completing edges
OF walks, and for granite coping for fountain
bowl. aid planting trees. 20, 600. For widening
enbankmeDts along the line of the Washington
aqueouct, SIS coo. Increase item for new build
ing for War, Navy, aud State departments. from
seven hundred TO nine hundred and ftty thou-
sand dollars. Strike out second section of bill
as passed by the House, which proposes to
abolish the civil service commission an I estab-
lish certain regulations as TO appointment of
clerks, AND insert IL its place an appropriation
Of fftee N thousand dollars for the continuance
of said civil service Ompisiou.