The Washington times., 1894-08-11
DISAGREE ON LOCAL ITEMS
Report Of the Conferees on the Sundry
CIVIL Bill.
NO MONEY FOR MAHONE'S LOT
Separate Vote to Be Taken-Indemnity for
Ford Theater Sufferers Held Up-Great
Falls Waterway Provision Stricken Out
Coast Survey Appropriation Cut

Senate amendments to the sundry civil bill
to.which the House disagreed occupied the
time of the latter body yesterday. The Ma
hone lot amendment was not reached, and
will probably. therefore, come up to-day.
The disagreement report of the confesees
showed disagreements on the Senate amend
ments for the purchase Of the Malone lot as
site for the Government Printing ONCE, in
volving $4,000, and the indemnity for the
Ford's Theater sufferers, involving s105, 900.
Other items carried the total up to 1921 ,0S0.
The Senates amendment for the electric light
plant Of the Capitol, providing that current
should be contracted for from some local
company at a rate not to exceed one-half
cent an hour for each 16-candle power lamp,
was also disagreed to; also the SIG. 600 appro-
priation for the Bureau of American Repu5-
lies.
The appropriations OF a local character
which remain in the bill are a. follows: Con-
structon OF the Library OF Congress, not TO
exceed 1900. 600, and an estimate for a tunnel
10 the Capitol for transfer of books; .ll 900
for the pay OF certain discharged employees of
the Senate; $4,000 for fire escapes and re-
pairs TO the Government Printing Office; re-
pairs to Maltby building. $4,000; S945 addi-
tional rent for extra offices; workshop for the
Smithsonian, 5000; the item OF $1,000 Tor
grading Massachusetts, avenue, one-haif OF
which is to come from District revenues; new
roof for the Pension Office, S2S,0O0; the Gar
field Hospital appropriation was increased TO
$4,000.
CHANGES IN THE BILL.
Other changes are that the items for
$4,000 elevator and plant for the Home for In
curables is stricken out; the Great Falls
waterway provision is stricken out, and the
Secretary of War and Attorney General are
directed to report on the cost of acquiring
the rights. The Court of Appeals gets the
-, 600 deputy clerk. The Coast and Geodetic
Survey appropriation Is cut down from S143,-
100 to Sl35 600 for the Office force and the
number OF field officers from fifty-four to
forty-one. Either salaries or employees will
therefore have to be reduced. Appropriations
for different divisions in this bureau may be
used Interchangeable 10 an amount not to eX-
ceed 10 per cent The appropriation OF ; ECO
for improvements to the Senate restaurant
stands. also the -, 800 for a supreme Court
elevator, 500 for repairs OF certain haggings
at the Capitol, 81 900 for cleaning of paint
ings at the Capitol. and the same sum Tor law
books for Howard University law library;
$500 to Clerk Church for indeXing certain
documents of the Fifty-second Congress:
81 600 10 c. II. Evans for extra work for the
Finance Committee. and $4,000 each for the
widows OF Senators Vance and Stockbridge.
Otner amendments for local purposes not
mentioned are stricken out.
The appropriation for one months addi-
tional pay TO employees of the Senate and
House for last years extra session is stricken
out: also the $4,000 for the Dolly Madison
portrait for the White House.
When the report was read, Chairman Say
-. -. A.
ierees be agreed upon. This was done and
he then moved a disagreement on the Ford's
Theater indemnify the electric plant for the
Capitol and the appropriation for the Bureau
of American Republics, stating that a separate
vote would be had on the Malone lot appro-
priaton for Government Printing Office.
The Senate amendment for the payment of
50, 600 to the heirs of each OF the Ford's The
ater victims was supported by Mr.. Baker, OF
New Hampshire. who declared that there
was no doubt that those who were killed had
lost their lives through the careessncss OF
government officers He added that if Mr..
Savers had been in Washington at the time OF
the accident and witnessed the horrors Of
that occasion he would not oppose the appro-
priation.
FORD THELTER APPROPRIATION.
Mr.. Sayers replied that the Ford's Theater
appropriation would be considered further,
and asked for the disagreement, to which the
House acceeded. 1t is understood. however.
that the matter is to be adjusted, perhaps at
the next conference.
The two principal amendments TO which
the afternoon was devoted were the project
for Il government exhibit to cost 5000. 900 at
the Atlanta exposition and TO give to each OF
the arid land States 100000 acres OF arid
lands to encourage the reclamation OF their
deserts, both being Senate amendments to the
sundry civil bill
The former furnished opportunity for
patriotic speeches from the Northerners on a
reunited country, and an enthusiastic ma
jority voted 10 instruct the House conferees
to support a substitute baving practically the
same effect as the amendment. minority
OF the Democrats opposed the appropriation
on constitutional grounds, and the Georgia
Representatives refrained from pushing The
matter, but lett Atlanta in the hands OF her
friends.
No decision was reached upon the arid
land project so that the conference report
on the sundry civil bill will come up again
to-day.
In the discussion on the Atlanta exposition
appropriation Representative Murray, of
South Carolina. the only colored member of
the House, spoke of the advantages the ex
position would give in bringing the white
and colored people together.
Representative Coombs and Sickles Demo
Gratis, of New York, and Cogswell (Repub-
lican) of Massachusetts, advocated the ap
preparation. Mr.. Cogswell e!oquently told
how he had left Atlanta at the close of the
war. through sad necessity. heap OF ruins
and how revisiting it after many years he
found one of the most prosperous business
cities of the country.
The evening session of the House was de-
voted TO pension bills.
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