Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-05-14
District Affairs I'm Congress.

The House District Committee met this MORN
ing, but took no definite action on any OF the
pending bills.
THE SENATE GAS BILL.
The bill which recently passed the Senate re-
ducing the price Of gas in Washin yton to g.. 50
per thousand feet is now with the House Com
mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds
which has not yet acted upon it.
DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR THB Dis
TRICr.
The House to-day, in committee Of the whole
on the deficiency appropriation bill, passed the
following items relating to the District OF Co.
iumbis:-For the pay ment Of navy pensions.
$4,000; for salary OF deputy commissioner OF
pensions, 8, $50; salary OF medical referee,
geons, g, 400; to pay John w. Wright for rent
Of building corner of and Sth streets for one
year, 5000; for the Soldiers and Sailors Or
phans' Home, to be expended under the direc-
ton OF the Secretary of the Interior, sl1 35097;
provided that hereafter child or children
shall be admitted into said home except "the
destitute orphans Of soldiers aud sailors who
have died in the late war on behalf of the
union of these states, !" as provided for in sec
ton three Of the act entitled can act to incor-
porate the National Soldiers and Sailors Or
provided further, that no child not an in
valid shall remain in said home after
having attained the age OF sixteen years;
ment Hospital for the Insane in the District
OF Columbia, being deficiency for the
service of the present fiscal year, Sl1 1856;
Dumb In the District OF Columbia, to enable
the trustees Of the institution to pay the amount
vet due on the purchase of the estate known as
Kendall Green, SO, 697 .46, to be expended under
The direction Of the Secretary Of the Interior.
For expense incurred IN alterations ana i'm
proyements made necessary by the chsnge OF
grade OF Sth street, in order to provide an en-
trance for the mail-wagons to the courtyard
Of the general post Office, s5,6S3 81, and to pay
for grading OF streets around the department,
$3.50. To pay superintendent free delivery In
Post Office department, the difference between
the salary as a 4th class clerk, and the salary
allowed by law, 500. For rent or house 9l5 z
street northwest for Post Office department,
81 ASS Sc, and hereafter no contract shall
be made for the use Of any building
for government purposes until an appro-
priation shall have been made by Congress.
For continuing improvements and buildings at
the botanic garden, 5000. For improving the
Capitol grounds, and for sewers and street
lights for same, $50, 900. The provision OF the
bill to reimburse the fund Of the Reform School,
in the District of Columbia, for work done and
materials furnished in the erection of the build
ings for the same, SIS So; and directing the
Attorney General to take such measures as
shall be most effectual to enforce any right or
claim which the United States have to this
amount of money now involved i'm the bank
ruptcy of Henry ID. Cooke, OF OF Jay Cooke &
Co., the same having been in the hands OF said
Henry ID. Cooke, as treasurer Of said Reform
School, at the time of his bankruptcy, and
being then moneys belonging TO the United
States, was under discussion when our report
closed.