Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-22
DISTRICT APPROPRIATIONS.
The Bill Reported to the Senate To
day.
IT CONTAINS VARIOUS NEW ITEMS INCREASING
THE AMOUNT BY OVER MILLION DOLLARS.

The District of Columbia appropriation bill
was reported to the Senate to-day BY Senator
Plumb. There are a number of new
items in the bill, and the appropriations have
generally been increased. When the bill left
the House the total amount appropriated was
"a, 943, 1851; the Senate has added 81 0Ss.-
6l3.3O, making total, as reported, of S5,9S1,-
SOC. 81.
INCREASED FORCE AND SALARIES IN THE DIS
TRIcr OFFICES.
In the appropriation for salaries and contin-
gent expenses of the offices of the Commits
sioners of the District the Senate has added
one clerk, stenographer and typewriter. at
and il has increased the salary OF chief inspec-
tor Of plumbing from $4,000 to S2.5O0. In the
assessors Office provision has been made for
one additional clerk at $1,000 and the contin-
gent expense fund has been increased 5000. In
the collectors Office $500 have been
$1,000 in place of $1,000 is the sum al
lowed for necessary expenses in the col
lection of overdue personal taxes by
dlstraintand sale or otherwise. In the attorneys
office the salary of the assistant attorney has
been increased from $4,000 to $4,000. In the
engineers office the salary of the superinten-
dent of roads has been increased from 81 400 to
81, 800, and that of the superintendent of lamps
from $500 to $1,000, while a new Office
that of superintendent and inspector of sew
ers-has been legally created with salary at
tachment of $4,000. The contingent-expense
fund has been increased from "a, 500 TO S5,100.
THE STREET APPROPRIATIONS LARGELY INCREASED.
The greater portion of the Senate increase is
In the section on streets. avenues, alleys and
roads, For work on streets and avenues named
in appendix &c c." book of estimates the
appropriation is SLOTS, sos; to be expended
In the discretion of the Commissioners
on streets and avenues specified in the
schedules named Work on the general
schedule has appropriation of S27S, 600;
Georgetown has S76550; the northwest has
1851, 749: the southwest, Sl00,075; the south
east, S125,S75, and the northeast, S141.555
The House committee limited the price
OF making or repairing concrete
or asphalt at % per square yard, and the Sem
ate committee added thereteo a proviso that
1.-THE conditions as to price and depth of
base shall not apply to those streets
on which in the judgment
OF heavy traffic, poor foundation, or other
causes, a pavement of more than ordinary
strength is required
For repairs to concrete pavements the Senate
mas increased the limit from $50 to 800, 900. A
separate item has been made of the resurfacing
and repairing of Pennsylvania avenue from LIST
to 18th street northwest, and the appropriation
therefor Is $3.50, 600. For permit work Zone
half OF the cost to be paid by the property
owners requesting such improvements) $780,
900; an increase of 800 600.
The charges upon the property abutting upon
line OF Improvement are to be levied pro rata
according to the lineal frontage the House
levied on the area of each lot or part of lot
thus improved.)
REPAIRS TO STREETS AND ALLEYS.
For current repairs on Streets avenues and
alleys $4,000 is appropriated, an increase of
900; for county roads, $50, 900. an increase
of $4,000. New items are-For paving Pome-
roy street. from the west building line of the
Freedmen's hospital to the east building line of
Brightwood avenue, 81 ,625; to extend 18th ST.,
middle section, to Columbia road, 5000; to
grade and regulate Massachusetts, avenue ex-
tended, from Boundary to Rock creek,
$4,000; to grade and regulate Roa-
noke and Irving streets, from 18th to 14th
streets, $4,000: for Naylor road. $500; for
Woodley road, $1,000; to grade and macadam-
ize Good Hope road to the District line, &, 900.
The appropriation for the Bunker Hill road
has been decreased from $4,000 to "a, 1000.
FOR THE CONDEMNATION OF STREETS, ROADS
AND ALLEYS,
the appropriation is $1,000, a reduc-
ton of $1,000 section inserted
under the head empowers the Com
missioners to proceed, at any time, Ito
condemn land for streets, alleys, roads and
highways to the entertainment of the costs
thereof, under the provisions of chapter
eleven of the Revised Statutes pertaining
to the District; provided, that in all cases
where there are no funds applicable to the
til payment of the condemnation money,
and all such condemnations not
paid from moneys furnished or appropriated
for shall, after six months from their respec-
tive dates, become void for all purposes"
The Commissioners are authorized and
dirprfp1
and U streets and New Hampshire avenue for
a circular reservation to be called Hancock
Circle, provided, however, that the ground can
be acquired, or the cost of the same betrayed,
otherwise than at the public expense.
SUBDIVISIONS
The sum of $4,000 is appropriated 50 pay
the expenses of such surveys as may be
necessary to enable the Commissioners to de-
termine if plats of subdivisions of land within
the District offered for record have been made
in conformity to the act to regulate subdivision
of land within the District.
The appropriations for sewers have all been
increased, as follows: For cleaning and repair
ing sewers and basins 5000; and increase of
$4,000. For replacing obstructed sewers.
$40, 600; an increase of $4,000. For main and
pipe sewers, S125, 900; an increase of $4,000
For suburban sewers, $50, 900; an increase of
$4,000.
Provision is made for the appointment by
the President OF the United States
of three competent sanitary engineers,
who shall examine and report npon the
system OF drainage existing in the District. to-
gether with such suggestions and recommend
atiOns as may to them seem necessary or de-
sirable. The sum of $4,000 is appropriated
to pay the salary of the board.
THE LIMIT OF THE NUMBER OF TEACHERS
in the public schools has been increased to
seven hundred and forty-fve, and the average
rate Of compensation is not to exceed $780,
nine new eight-room school buildings are pro-
$685. is appropriated for the purchase of lots
adjoining the Arthur school-building lot for
school purposes.
PURCHASE OF SCHOOL SITES.
The clause inserted by the House prohib-
iting the purchase of sites through
agents or other persons not regular
dealers in real estate, or at an ex-
traordinary commission is retained in the bill
and to it is added a clause empowering the
Commissioners to condemn sites for District
public buildings.
IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
the salary of the major has been raised to
$500. The number OF lieutenants is increased
by one, and that of the sergeants by six
Forty additional privates of class 1,
and ten of class 2 are provided,
and 81 800 is appropriated for the salaries of
these matrons.
In appropriations for charities there is an in
crease of S24, 100
CAPITOL TOPICS.