Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-30
OUNDRY CIVIL BILL.
Some 0f the Principal Items Provided
for i'm the Measure.

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for i'm the Measure.
Senator Cockrell. from the committee on
appropriations, today reported the sundry
civi! appropriation bill from that committee.
AS reported the bill shows an increase of
c,5Ss.3O1 over the House bill. making the
aggregate $500. .6s5. The principal in
creases were the following:
For public buildings. $4,000; for light
house beacons. etc. 1881. .15i; coast and geo.
detic survey. $50, $50; fish commission, $50.
QUO; Columbian exposition. S12 500: assist
ant custodians and janitors, $4,000; en-
forcement of alien contract labor laws
$4,000; Fords Theater disaster, $l05 oUo;
quarantine service, $4,000; new roof on
Pension building, s2S, $50; purchase Of cleo
trio light plant for Senate wing Of the
Capitol. $4,000: surveying public lands
100000; Des Moines river land settlers.
S2l2Uo; Rock Island arsenal, Si2.Joo; mil
itary posts Gncrease), $4,000; Galveston
harbor dncrease), s1O0.Oeo; dry dock. Puget
sound, $4,000; United States marshals' fees.
$pi,ocU; Pacific railroad suits, $4,000: paw
ment OF discharged employees of the Senate
Sil.0o; International prison congress at
Paris. $3,0V0: cotton states and interna-
tional exposition, S2O0.Oo0; government
printing ofnce. $4,000: preventing deposits
in New York harbor dncrease). sl0a aNsD
Inc reductions amount to Sd. 102 of which
S2oWO are on the appropria tions made bv
the House for the protection of timber ON
the public lands. and 5000 on the amount
appropriated by the House for the national
and state soldiers homes
Inc Dill also reappropriates 500 ODo
which was appropriated in 1890 and nor
used. for the purchase OF the south half Of
square 6i3, in Washington. owned by ex-
Senator Malone. as a site for a government
printing ofice and made a direct appro-
priation OF $4,000 for plans for such a
building. "
Other important Senate amendments are:
requirement that the Secretary Of the
Treasury shall hereafter submit to Con-
gress estimates in detail for all govern
ment employees required in connection with
the superintendence and Construction of all
public buildings: an increase of the salary
OF the superintendent of the coast and
goedetic survey to $4,000 and making
changes in his force of assistants: reauir-
ing the Secretary of the Treasury TO fur
nish copies of standard weights and meas
ures Of the United States to any state or
territory; providing for the reimbursement
OF France and of French exhibitors at the
worlds fair for losses sustained by fire La ST
January. Cor which $4,000 is appropriated [:
authorizing the President TO express the
appreciation of the United States to coun-
tries which participated in the fair; chang
ing the head money fee collected from I'm
migrants from 20 cents to 81 Providing
for the payment to the heirs of those who
lost their lives I'm the Ford Theater dis
aster and appropriating 5000 to be paid on
account of each death. Granting nav for
a month for the DISCHARGED emploves Of
the War Department; making permanent
the annual appropriate ton of sioa0D for
ordnance and ordnance stores for the mill
tia OF the various states