Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-04-18
THE DISTRICT APPROPRIATIONS.
Increases Proposed by the Senate APP
preparation Committee.

Increases Proposed by the Senate APP
preparation Committee.
CHANGES MADE IN THE BILL As IT CAME FROM
THE HoUsE-ADDIrIoSs TO THE AMOUNT OF
$3.50 PRoPosED-sTREET IMPROVEMENTS,
SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND OTHER ITEMS ADDED.
The Senate appropriation committee yester-
day reported tine District appropriation bill.
The bill as reported contains great number
Of changes from the original character as it
came from the House. Appropriations in ad-
dition are made to the extent of S450,39o. A
number of streets are added to be improved,
appropriations for the police force and the
courts are increased and large addition is
made to the sum for school buildings. Chart
ties also come in for an increase. The changes
from the House bill are as follows:
THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE.
For executive Office one clerk is added at $500;
contingent expenses, 900 for care of property
yards stables. livery of horses, &c; also $3.50
to pay the register of wills for preparing
papers in connection with the appointment OF
guar lians to enable INDECENT boys to enlist in
the United States navy, as provided by law,
and $1,000 to enable the assessor to prepare a
book showing all existing arrears of taxes on
real property due the District of Columbia.
In the tax collectors Office a new deputy col
lectOr az salary of q, 900 and cashier. Il. 800,
are prov Id for, and $1,000 for collection of
overdue p,: 'onal taxes by dlstraint and sale or
otherwise.
In the S,c,ner's office for contingent ex-
penses, &c, 80, 100 is appropriated instead Of
$500.
The app ,p:iation for permit work is in
creased from $50 900 to 800, 900, and the fol-
lowing paragraph is added: For the paving
and curblng of the roadway of any street in the
District OF Columbia, ordered by the District
Commissioners, upon payment in advance by
the owners of abut,ing property of one-half
the estimated cost of said work, $50. 900. Pro-
vided. That said pavement shall join, abut
upon, or connect with, some existing pavement,
and that the work done shall be complete
for the entire width OF roadway, and shall in
length be at least one square,"
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
The appropriation for street improvements
and repairs has been increased from S674 200
to S74i2 0O
Tie Georgetown schedule is increased 5000,
making S6j.0UO.
Northwest section schedule. to include the
paving OF fifteenth street from to Bound
airy streets, I street from 14th to 18th streets,
X street from New Hampshire avenue to goth
street, ID stree. from 18th to 18th streets. 18th
street from to f streets, Il street from 9Th to
10th streets, y street from ed to Oath streets
and Caroline street, grading and regulating
Boundary street from LIST TO 4th streets and
cutting away the parking and paving New York
avenue between 18th and 18th streets, making
continuous roadway, S333.0OO. All these
items are new. the House appropriation being
sl2S, 600 in a lump.
Southwest section schedule, s7s,OOO, instead
Of 81 200.
Southeast section schedule. excepting b
street from lst to I'd streets. and to include the
grading and regulating of 18th street from d
to Z streets, Sl2l. 500. The House appropria-
tion was $1,000 in a lump.
Northeast section schedule to include the
paving OF Sd street from + to II streets and
9Th street from Massachusetts avenue to Mary
land avenue. instead of the grading and regu-
lating of same, S146, 700. The House appro-
pristion was S120, 900 in lump.
For grading streets, alleys and roads not
otherwise provided for, S25, 900, an increase of
$4,000. For repairs to pavements, $50, 900
Is provided new appropriation.
The paragraph reading For completion of
the surveys of the District of Columbia with
reference to the extension of various avenues
TO the District line, $1,000" has been stricken
out
For the construction Of brick shed for
storing and testing hydraulic cements needed
for street and sewer work, -. 500.
Current work of repairs OF streets, avenues
and alleys, SO 900; increase of Sl0,0 600 Re-
pairs of county roads. $50, 900; increase of
$4,000. For paving Nichols avenue, Sl3.1OO;
increase of $4,000. For grading and regulating
kenesaw and Wallach streets from 10th street
eAtenUeu eastward, SlUOOO; increase OF 3,OOO.
SUBURBAN ROADS AND STREETS.
For grading and regulating Lincoln avenue
from Boundary to Bunker Hill road, $4,000;
increase of $4,000
For grading and regulating Brightwood ave-
nue. from Rock Greek Church road to the Dis
trict OF Columbia line, 80, 900, an increase Of
$1,000
For grading and regulating streets of Takoma
PARK S5OOO decrease of 5000.
The appropriation of $1,000 for grading and
regulating Anacostia and Sheriff roads is
stricken out, and $4,000 appropriated ''for
grading and regulating Anacostia road west
ward of Pennsylvania avenue extended, when
wldened. not exceeding $4,000; Provided,
That sufficient land be donated on both sides
OF said road to make its width ninety feet
The grading and regulating of Naylor road is
to be done from Anacostia road to the District
line, instead of from Good Hope road, and the
following new itemsare added:
For grading and regulating California avenue
from Columbus road TO Massachusetts avenue,
s5OOO; for grading and regulating Michigan
avenue, Sl.5OO; for grading and regulating
Sherman avenue, 5000; for grading and regu-
lating North Capitol street extended. e, 500;
Tor grading and regulating LIST street west ex-
tended, $3.50; for grading 18th street ex-
tended between Boundary and Roanoke streets
So.OOO Tor grading and regulating 18th street
extended between Boundary street and Column
bla road, 1880: for grading and regulating
ing 18th street extended, ~, 600; for grading
ana regulating Woodley road from Woodiey
bridge to Tenleytown road, $4,000. Provided
mat suitcient land be donated on both sides of
the road to make its width 80 feet, and no street
or other railway track shall be laid on said
Woodley road except by authority Of Congress
hereafter granted
STREET LIGHTING.
To the street lighting item $4,000 is added
and the passage giving the Commissioners
power TO substitute other Illuminating material
Is stricken out
For electric lighting on one or more Of the
principal streets of the cities of Washington
and Georgetown the following is added: I'm
Guiding the south side of PENNSYLVANIA avenue
and one arc light for FreedmaI's Hospital and
Asylum, so, 900, an increase Of "a, 000."
for Washington aqueduct the following is
added 70 the $4,000 appropriated:
For the purchase of five acres Of land near
the distributing reservoir, $4,000.
'for the cost of a survey by a sworn sur-
veyor, for Jury fees and other expenses of con-
domination, for removing the cattle pens. clear
ing up and fencing the ground for the works
for controlling the drainage and for other peces-
sary improvements, 81 500"
PUBLIC scHooLc
For public schools S2OO is addel tn SALARY
of secretary TO board of trustees; also, one
clerk at s720 s44,575 instead of $40 GOO il an
propriated for the manual training schools
For repairs and improvements to school
buildings and grounds, $4,000; an increase OF