Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-23

appropriations committee at seven O'Clock last
evening, and the clerk, BY setting up all night
got both the bill and the report printed ready to
go into the hands Of the members this morning.
The report states that the estimates aggrega to
in all, So, 326, 400 %, Of which sum the CON-
mittee recommend $4,000, 177.22, being a re-
duction of $1O,126, 225 under the estimates.
The appropriations for the same purposes for
the current dscal year were $22, SAG, 749.74,
being STAG, 572.52 more than Is recommended
In the accompanying bill for the next fiscal
year.
SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL APPROPRIATIONS
Among the appropriations made in the bill
are the following items of interest
Public buildings under the Treasury depart
ment, 81 ,794, 1884; navy yards and stations,
HaP'ta ah SndnR
s33, LOO; Pension office building, Sal 900; De.
grounds in " Washington, 800, 7so; State. War
and Navy department. building, s4oo,ooo;
ing, paper, binding and lithographing, $4,000
600; Hfe-saving service, 1881 900; revenue
cutter service including construction. DC of rev
enue steamers, $4,000; engraving and print
Ing, S475, 700; lighthouse establishment, So
Ole, 500; coast and geodetic survey S546, 49s 50;
tinctive paper for United States securities.
S30, 900; recoinage of gold and silver coins,
$4,000; propagation, steam vessels and other
1855, 900; International exchanges, Smith
sonian Institution, $4,000; North American
ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, $4,000;
current expenses, heating apparatus, furniture,
DC, public buildings under control of Treasury
department., 81 1892 500; sugpressing counter
the spread of epdemic diseases $500 600; ss
nal service, 1894 ,5sOSO; national cemeteries,
including cemetery roads, pay Of superin,
appliances 90 for disabled soldiers. s4oa, 600;
support of transient paupers, S22,5OO;
teer Soldiers, 81 ,472,0 900; collection and pay
sailors, So 900; public lands service, 1887 500;
the ss geS nS sons
park, $4,000; current expenses, government
hospital for insane, $216,53s; current expenses,
600; support of Freedmen's hospital and asy
sity, SIS, 500; furniture and fixtures, National
port of convicts, $4,000; prosecution OF
crimes $4,000 expenses Of Limited States
sition at New Orleans. La, 100000.
THE NEW LEGISLATION IN THE BILL
is provision that silver shall be transport
ed from the Treasury at government expense;
and that the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby
authorized, in his discretion, to suspend, in
whole or in part, from July LIST, 1855, to June
30th, 1856, inclusive, the execution of SO much
of the act of February 2Sth, 1878, as authorizes
purchase, from time to time, silver bullion, to
an extent not less than two million dollars
worth per month nor more than four million
dollars worth per month, and which directs
the coinage Of the silver bullion so purchased
into standard silver dollars, and which appro-
pirates a sufficient sum of money from the
Treasury to carry out the provisions of said act
in these respects. The sale Of arsenals is pro-
vided for.
APPROPRIATIONS OF LOCAL INTEREST IN DE-
TAIL
or fl fi,,,y Ao forP Dot
ical garden; for the U. s. Treasury building,
repairs to roof, $4,000, and annual repairs
to building, $4,000. $4,000 is appropriated
to enable the public printer to construct a
storehouse in this city In connection with the
government printing office. For the prepare
ton and maintenance of fish-ponds in Washing
ton and elsewhere, and the distribution of the
eggs and young of the whitefish, salmon, shad,
cod, carp and other useful Inhabitants of the
waters, including salaries or compensation of
all necessary employees, S45, 900 is appropriated.
city, for hts services in detecting the frauds in
the bureau Of medicine and surgery Navy de-
partment.
To pay for the damages done to certain barges
by collision with the Tallapoosa 81 1884 is APP
priated; for repairs to Interior department,
sos for general repairs and fresco painting
grounds, S35, 900; for the construction of ter
race Senate side Capitol, S21, 500; for lighting
grounds, $4,000; for completing the Pension
sane asylum, S21O. 53S, Independent of repairs
For the Columbia Deaf Mute institution S55, 900
is provided. besides $4,000 for the ex-
tension of the building; for Howard uni
versity, $1S,5OO; Freedman's hospital, S49, 900.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.
The appropriations for the buildings and
grounds in and about Washington are as fol-
lows For improving, care and maintenance of
For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery,
$4,000. For improving reservation on South
Carolina avenue, between 18th and 9Th streets
east, 81 800. For ordinary care of Lafayette
square, 81 900; Franklin square, 81 ,OOO res
ervatiOn numbered three monument grounds,
$1,000. For continuing improvement of reser-
walton numbered seventeen and site of old ca
ma, northwest of same, SIC, 900: Provided, That
no part thereof shall be expended upon other
For care, construction and repair OF fountains
- the public grounds, 81 500. For improving,
'rare and maintenance Of various reservations,
$1,000. For improvement, maintenance and
care of Smithsonian grounds, $4,000. That
the officer in charge Of public buildings and
crumbs may, on the approval Of the Secretary
surrounding the reservations on Pennsylvania
avenue, between 18th and 14th streets.
circle, including removal Of fence, 81, 600, the
same to be Immediately available.
For repairs and fuel at the Executive Man.
sion follows: For care and repair of and refur-
qishing the Executive Mansion, including
81 900 for new roof, 5000; for fuel for the
Executive Mansion and greenhouses, 80, 900: for
We
for lighting the Executive Mansion and public
grounds, for gas, pay of lamp-lighters, gas-fit-
tiers, plumbers, gas-ftting and plumbing, pur-
chase and erection of lamps and lamp-posts.
purchase ofmatches. and for repairs or ali kinds:
fuel and lights for Office, stables, watchmen's
lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery,
$4,000: Provided, That for each SiX-foot
burner not connected with meter in the lamps
on the public grounds no more than twenty
two dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, in
Guiding lighting, cleaning and keeping in re-
pair the lamps, under any expenditure pro-
vided for in this act; and authority is hereby
given to substitute other Illuminating material
for the same or less price, and to use SO much
essary for that purpose.
For repairing and extending water-pipes, pur-
chase of apparatus to clean them, and cleaning
the springs and repairing and renewing the
Executive Mansion, and the building for the
State, War, and Navy departments, $4,000.
For telegraph to connect the Capitol with the
departments and Government Printing office,
for care and repair OF the same, 81 ,25O.
For the building for the State, War and Navy
departments: For continuing the construction
of the walls and floors of the several stories of
the west and center wings, and for each and
every purpose connected with the construction
of the building, including the rent of neces-
sary office-roOm, 100000.
THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT
For completion Of interior stairways and
platforms, $4,000; insertion of presentation
blocks, $4,000; cementing interior walls,
So 900; paving the floor and covering drum
pits, 81 600; closures of doorways and passages
So, 900; in all, $4,000, to be expended under
the direction Of the Secretary of War.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF DISTRICT INTEREST.
To enable the Secretary of War to pay, out of
the unexpended balance of the appropriation of
S57, 500 made by the act approved August 9Th,