The evening times., 1896-04-08
DISTRICT IN CONGRESS
Appropriation Bill Again Report
ed From Committee.
CHARITY SECTION REFRAMED
Provisions Originally In the Measure
Have Been Stricken Clubhouse Con-
ferees on Free Library Bill APP
BILE ReportsOnOtiier
Proposed Acts.

The House Committee on Appropriations
today reported the District appropriation
bill, whicn was recommitied Oil February
3, with instructions 10 reframe the sec
tions on charities.
As the result of more than two months
considerations the provis ions originally
contained in the bill have been stricken
out, and the following inserted:
For the relief and care of the, poor ana
destitute. and for such charitable ana
reformatory work, ,andsuch care andmcdieai
and surgical trca time mt o + poor and destitute
paticnts in the District OF Columbia us
have been here ctofore usually provided
for by direct appropriations to private IN
stitutions, and as the District Commits
sioners may deem necessary, the sum OF
Sy4, roo, to bc expended unde the direction
OF said Commissi oners. either under con-
tract with responsible and competent per
sons or institutions or by employing for
the purpose the public institutions or
agencies OF said District, where prac-
;icable: Provided. That no such contract
shall extend he yond the thirtieth day OF
June eighteen hundred and ninet ety-seveii.
and that no contract shall be made
under any such contract except for service
actually rendered, for which compensation
shall be provided for in said contract; and
that said Commissioners shall report to
Congress on or before the rirsi Monday OF
December in each year detailed state.
ment of their expenditures therefore made
under this appropriation, and of all con-
tracts made by them hereunder, giving
the names of the persons ana institutions
,,-,tI fatf i'm, lat
expenditures will he required hereunder:
And provided further. That no part of
| The money herein appropriated shall DE
paid for the purpose of maintaining OF
aiding, by payment for services or cx-
penses, or otherwise, any church or RE-.
Iigious denomination. or any institution or
society which is under sectarian or cccic-
siastical control"
For municipal lodging house and wood
and stone yard. $1,000. f7
For the Columbia Hospital for Women
and Lyingin Asylum, maintenance, $2o,-
900.
Freeimans Hospital and Asylum-For
subsistence, 900.
For salaries and compensation OF the
Surgeon-in-chief. not to exceed 50 200:
two assistant surgeons, clerk, engineer.
matron. nurses, lauDdreSses. cooks. team
stcrs, watchmen, and laborcrs, $4,000.
For rent of hospital buildings and grounds,
$4,000. -1I' ''
For fuel and other absolutely necessary
expenses, S11, 500: in all. $4,000.
Reform School for Girls: For supcrin
tendent, 81 900; matron, 5000; two teach
ers. at $3.50 each; overseer, $T20; en-
sinecr, $3.50: night watchman, $365; la
borer. $500; in ALL S4,42b. ...
For groceries and other necessary Items,
$500; in all S9,925. r.
THE INDUSTRIAL HOME.
Industria Home School-For maintenance, 4,
Including repairs. S9.9O0: Provided. That
before this appropriation sh1ilbecOme ava IL
able the board OF managers OF sa id Industrial
Home School shall transfer the control and
management of said Institution. with all IFS
right, title and interest in the same, to the
Board OF Children's Guardians, WHO Shan
thereafter control and manage said instiiu-
;ion as an industrial home school, and
for such other chiid-caring work as shah
| be approved by the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia, dra wing moneys FOL
supplies ana maintenance OF said insti-
tuition by requisition upon said Commis
SioneTs, ana paying over ali income OF
said institution to the said Commissioners.
Said transfer shall include a surrender
Of the charter and corporate franchises OF
said institution, and the filing of an irrev-
| ocable release and surrender OF all control
of the same with the said District Com
missioners.
Board OF Children's Guardiaus-For the
Board of Children S G uardian ms, created under
the act approved July &c, 1892. namely:
For administrative expenses, including
salary OF agent, not to exceed 81 500, ex-
penses in placing and visiting children, and
all office and sundry expenses, $4,000.
For care of fecble-minded children; care
| Of children under three years of age, white
and ColOrcd. board and care OF all children
over three years OF age, and for the tenn
porary care of children pending investiga
| tion or while being transferred from place
place, S23. .4O0-in all, S27, 400.
The Speaker today appointed Mcssrs.
Powers, Miner and Babcock to serve as
House conferees on the free library bill.
| The two former are uDalterably opposed
TO the general government bearin g any por-
ton of the expense Of establishment and
maintenance.