Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-18
THE DEFICIENCY BILL.
Many Items of Iterest to the Dis
trict of Columbia.
OLD CLAIMS PROVIDED FOR.
Action Of the Committee on the
Charity Fund Controversy.
DETAILS OF THE MEASURE.

by Mr.. Breckenridge of Kentucky
The items on the bill for the District Of
Columbia aggregate $5S.50677. For the
Smithsonian Institution the deficiency is
A.75. for the fish commission it is s24. 131. "a.
for the government printing Office. Slips;
for the House Of Representatives, 81. 10.
Last years District appropriation bill
divided the funds for the child caring in
situations so as to give go per cent to the
institutions direct and to place 40 per cent
in the hands Of the board of guardians
The board of guardians report that they
will have a surplus Of about $1,000 at the
close of this year. which they recommend
should be divided to the institutions direct
The committee decided to do nothing In
this matter until the District appropriation
FOR the new fiscal year, which Is now In the
hands of the Senate. has been acted on
finally. II then the proportion Of the divi-
sion Of this fund is changed they will give
the surplus for this year to the institutions
A provision is made in the bill the amount
OF the judgments in the Court of Claims in
the cases of T. B. Coyle S2.922 90; NJ. L.
Noerr. 5000; Helen r. Tindall. 500, and Max
Lansburg. N.7O0. together with the judg-
ments in favor Of Patrick Maloney and An
drew Gleason. appropriated by the def
cheney appropriation act OF 1880. shall be
subject to all the provisions and restrictions
OF the act Ito increase the water supply Of
the city Of Washington and for other pur-
poses. as to the apportionment and settle
ment between the District and the United
States. These cases all grow out of the
abandoned aqueduct work, and the pro-
vision Ia to insure the District being charg-
ed with half the amount squandered on
this expensive fraudulent work.
Money for the District.
The District deficiencies in the bill are:
Contingent and miscellaneous expenses:
For rent of office for superintendent OF char
tiles. $500.
For advertising notice Of taxes in arrears.
July l. 1898. as required to be given by act
charge OF 81 20 for each lot or piece OF prop
erty advertised. s10.16s11
For advertising offices of taxes in arrears
July l, 1892. required to be given by act
of March 10, 1890. to be reimbursed by a
charge of 20 for each lot or piece of prop
erty advertised, Sl.45S.66
For general advertising on account of the
foliow wing fiscal years: For 1898, $3.50; for
1891, 1872.
Expenses of assessing real property: That
the sum of S3Io for clerical services be al
lowed and that the accounting officers of
the United States treasury be authorized
and directed to credit the same in the set
Element of the accounts of Commissioners
j. W. Douglass, J. W. Ross and Capt Will
liam T. Rossell, being for the services Of the
fiscal year 1892
Grading streets. alleys and roads: To pay
D. Knowlton the balance due on contract
for grading Half street southwest, between
the fiscal year 1890. 500
Improving High street: To enable the
Commissioners of the District of olum-
bia to redeem two certificates of indebted
ness enormously issued against the George
town and Tennallytown Railway Company
for paving High street, in Georgetown,
bearing date August IL and August 81.
1893, respectively, s2,5l307, together with
a further sum sufficient to pay the inter
est on said certificates. at the rate OF 10
per centum per annum, from the date of |
their issue until the date of the passage of
this act. -
Permit work: To meet the retain Of 10
per centum on the cost of work done under
contract numbered 1910, with George Drew
& Sons. being for the service of the fiscal
year 1891, $6)21.
Streets-Sprinkling, sweeping and clean
$40 s; u s'' 81 '''''s' anu S'os ''0"
To pay Edward Harpur so cents per diem
from November l, 1891. to June 3D 1893
4S6 days. he having been employed as In
spector over the street-sweepng by night
during the aforesaid period. at a compen-
per diem, s2i3.
Fire department: For forage, sl,35o.
For forage on account Of fiscal year 1893,
81, 455SS.
ances, on account of fiscal year 1885,, $3.50.
For contingent expenses--That the sum
of $50 for papering engine house be allowed
ar d that the accounting officers Of the Uni
ted States treasury be authorized and d.
rected to credit the same in the settlement
of the accounts of Commissioners j. W.
Ross. NJ: NJ. Parker and Capt. Charles F.
Powell, being for the service of the fiscal
year 1893.
Public schools-To ray E. E. King, jani-
tor or Fillmore School from July u to Sep
TENDER 30. 1893. to make his pay $500 per
annum, $40. IS. To pay the JAM tor of Pierce
School from February / to June 10, 1894, at
$500 per annum, SOS. 49, For fuel on ac-
eount Of the following fiscal years: For
ls9i. $500; for 1893. s9s'64. For contin-
gent expenses on account of the following
hscal years: For 1894, $1,13O; for 1893,
s156.s5; for 1892. $500. 23
Police Court.-For witness fees on &C.
count OF fiscal years as follows: For 1891
81. 500; for 1851. $40; for 1890, SIPS.
10 pay William Gale. engineer from
March l. 1893. to June 30. 1893 at the rate
OF $500 per annum, being for the service of
the fiscal year 1893. s3O2. So
Support Of convicts-To. nav amounts
found due by the accounting officers of the
treasury on account of support of convicts.
District OF Columbia. for the fiscal year
1893. Sl3560.1S.
Relief of the poor-To pay amounts on ar
count of the municipal lodging house and
stone yard set forth in House executive
document numbered 100 of this session ha
ing for the fiscal year 1893, sl2779
lSee House Elk. Docs 103 and 1897
Judgments-For payment of judgments
against the District of Columbia, as fol-
lows:
To Charles H. Anderson, by his next
friend, Mary Alice Anderson, $500 together
with s6O1O costs: to John l.. Bartlett. $500
together with s70.25 costs; to the Anglo
American Insurance Company use of Vim
A. Meloy, 81, 215. together with $751; IS costs:
to VIM. A. Hedrick, ISL, together with
1858 costs; to David Murphy, SIS. "a, to-
gether with 81 costs: to George w. Boil
ling, 800. together with $4255 costs: TO
VIM. Ballantyne & Sons, s4321, together
with 81 10 costs-in all s27S315, together
with further sum to pay the interest on
said judgments, as provided by law from
the date the same became due until the
date of payment.
The Commissioners Of the District of CO.
lumbia are authorized to pay the Judgment
in favor Of Charles Cowles Tucker, adminis-
traitor Of David Patterson, deceased, for six
hundred and ffty-six dollars and ten cents,
together with forty-three dollars and thirty
cents costs, out of the police relief fund
To pay William Forsyth for making three
plats of block forty-three, "Holmead Man.
Or County, showing lines of alley pro-
posed to be condemned therein, computing
lines of lots and areas to be taken there
from, preparing three petitions for signature
of applicants, and recording plat of con-
den nation of said alley. twenty dollars.
Militia-For rent, fuel. light. care and re-
pair OF armories on account Of fiscal years
as follows:
For 1894. two thousand one hundred and
eighty-five dollars.
For 1893, two thousand and fifty-one dol
lars and sixty-five cents