Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-16
GENERAL DEFICIENCY BILL
A Total Appropriation Of Over Six Million
of Dollars
Some of the Principal Items In the
Measurc-Those That Are of
Local Interest.

The general deficiency appropriation bill
was reported to the House today, carrying
a total of appropriations amounting 10
| S6,51S, ,574.42. Among the items of local ap-
preparation are the following:
To pay DR.. l.. w. Glazebrook, deputy
coroner, for fifteen days service $40. 10
pay accounts for expenses of the board OF
assistant assessors, $1,S25.45. For emer-
gency fund, $1,000.
For garbage service during May and
June s., OOO For board of childrens guard
ians $1,000. For William Forsyth. for sur
veying, $3.50. For judicial expenses: A. A.
Wilson. $3.50; Robert Willett. s5i.o'; W.
For Thos. w. Smith. s1575: John w:
Baker, s12.25. For James Gibbons. for land
| taken in the extension of Il street, S3'1oo'
For r. J. Kennedy, $33.S1.
Under public schools, as follows: Iatiich
Tracy, s5O6S: S. A. Mckinney, $1,000. For
rent of school buildings. $1,000. r. j. Ken
nedy. S31S.73.
Witness fees, 81, ,905. For salary of crier to
| Court of Appeals, $1,000. For support OF
convicts at Albany. S14922 22.13.
For the District Supreme Court Justices,
difference in salary. 81, l55.47.
For reform school Of the District, 81 ,0o5.
Fer the Washington Asylum. s4S.97. For
Freedman's Hospital, $119SS.
For judgments against the District as
| follows: Mary r. Wilcox, S., 1076o; David
E. Haller $3,19225; to George w. Boiling,
s79O.SO: to Caroline H. Boiling and George
w. Boiling $20H.5a! to Columbus Alex
arder. s596l2; to Washington Danenhower.
$3.50: to John Raedy, $4995; to Henrietta
l.. King, 81 1880
A number of small appropriations are
made for wages due laborers under the
water department..
Principal Appropriations.
The principal appropriations are rs fol-
lows: State Department, $37,073; Treasury
Department, $1,15o, 40; District of Column
bia, s59,274; War Department. S23950o;
Navy Department, s109.2S3; Interior De-
partment, siS,125; Department of Justice.
s2,36l, 43O: Post Office Department, sl,2S2,
14S; House of Representatives, S2I,1S9; gov
ernment printing Office, 0O.4oo; Judgment
of the Court of Claims, $I16093; audited
claims, s16706
In addition to the sum recommended in
this bill, appropriations have been made
during the present session of Congress to
the support of the government during the
current and prior fiscal years, as follows:
December "a, 1894 printing, 100000: De
cember "a, 1894, eleventh census, etc, $780,
$1.S64.321.
The total amount Of deficiency appropria-
tions for this session is. therefore, SS2, ,>9o.
Herring Sea Claims.
The recommendation Of Secretary Gres-
ham for an appropriation of S42ocO0 for the
payment of all claims by Great Britain
growing out of the seizure of fur sealing
vessels in Bering sea was called up In the
committee for the first time today, and the
members declined to recommend any action
upon it, because they had not been able to
look into the matter sufficiently to take
action upon it intelligently. The committee
authorized Mr.. Breckenridge of Kentucky
to offer an amendment in the House for the
payment of these claims without any rec
ommendation from the committee for or
against it, and the members reserved the
right to vote as they may see fit upon the
question. No action was taken by the full
committee upon the subcommittees recon-
mendation that 100000 be appropriated for
a government exhibit at the Tennessee ex-
position of 1896. but the item will be taken
up in committee Monday, and, If approved,
will be embodied in separate bill.
Under the Department of State Is a
clause that the disbursements made to
members and attaches of the BeriHS sea
tribunal of arbitration at Paris by Maj. F..
w. Halford and John w. Foster, disburs-
ing officers of said commission, under the
authority and with the approval of the Sec
1etary of State, out of moneys heretofore
appropriated, shall be allowed by the con-
troller of the treasury which settles a
controversy between the department and
the accounting officer, Of the treasury. For
the commercial bureau of American repub-
lies there is an item or $S,OOO: tof the en-
forcement of the Chinese exclusion act,
$50, 900.
For collecting the internal revenue, in
Guiding expenses under the oleomargarine
act, and for the inspection of tobacco ex-
ported, $4,000 is allotted, and for the GUS
toms service, $6O0,00O.
The Census Office Abolished.
The office of the eleventh census. 1t is
provided, shall be abolished on March i,
1885, and the terms of all employees cease,
with the exception of a force not to ex-
ceed ninety to complete the work, under
the direction of the Secretary of the In
terror. =
The deficiency appropriations for United
States courts are made each year. The
principal items in this bill are: Fees of
marshals, for 1895, $713.W0; 1894, S195.45O;
1893, s2S. 159; marshals' expenses. S14O,O0O;
fees of jurors, 1875, S100,OO0; fees of wit
nesses. 1895, $156O0O: 1894, S73,IW support
Of prisoners, 1895, $5OOOo; 1894. $4,000; pay
Of bailiffs, 1895. $45Oo0; fees of district at
torneys. 1875, s1OO,OC9; 1894. $4,000; fees of
clerks. 1895, S12O.OOO; fees of commissioners,
1885, $751;, 200; 1894, $40,1S1.
The principal item under the Post Office
Department is s935O1U for inland mail
transportation by railroad routes, eXclu-
Sive of the Pacific railroads.