The evening times., 1897-02-18

The general deficiency bill was report
ed to the House today The whole amount
appropriated is Sc, ABS, ,93775. The bill
contains the following items OF local in
tereSt:
United States TreasUrer's office-For
the following additional clerks to be
employed in rcdeeming the national cur
rency ito be reimbursed 10y the national
banksl, from March LIST to June 80. 1897.
four clerks OF class one and five clerks
at the rate OF $500 per annum.
Coroner's office TO pay DIR. Lardn w.
Giazebrook. deputy coroner, for services
for twenty days during the fiscal year
1897 and for sixteen days during the fiscal
year 1895 az S5 per day; miscellaneous ex-
penses of coroner's office. $l25.
For the parking commission, $1,000;
to pay Andrew Gleeson the o per centum
retained under a certain contract; 1891;
for permanent system of highways, S179;
to pay j. W. Anderson for services as
referee in sundry eases in the Court Of
Claims, $500: for support OF District con-
victs in Albany penitentiary. $10.T96.
Fire Department-The sum OF $219 is
the September cyclone to engine houses;
contingent expenses, $476; for force
necessary TO operate the fire engine at
Mount Pleasant, from March 1 to June
80, 1897, namely one foreman and one
engineer, at the rate OF 81 900 per annum
each; one fireman and one hostler, at the
rate of $s4O per annum each, and for six
privates, at the rate OF $500 each.
Public schOols-To repair damages to
school buildings by the cyclone, S4,543.
The Commissioners are authorized in
their discretion to use the uneXpended
balances OF the appropriations made for
const ructing the Stevens school in settle
nent OF claims filed with the auditor Of the
District against tie contractor for labor
and material furnished 10 him in the work
of construction.
Thomas w Smith gets 81 zoo for rent
OF vault in the building on First street,
between b and streets.
The memory of Ford's Theater disaster
is revived by the payment to o. G. staple
of $500 for rent OF Wizards Hall, which
was used to hold the inquest on the victims
OF the accident.
The act of June II, 1896, providing for
amount appropriated for payment OF lots
located in the Potomac flats, is amended
so as to make the same payable wholly
from the revenues OF the United States.
Expenses of the board of medical super
visors-To provide for the expenses at
tending the issue of licenses to practice
medicine and surgery and midwifery to
physicians and midwives respectively who
were registered at the health department
at the time OF the passage of the law regu-
hating the practice of those arts. $500.
To pay amounts on account of the militia
OF the District for the years 1896, S2S4. 13;
1898, Sc, ,3S7. 90; 1894, SO: 1891, So
e5s. "a; 1889, S54o; in all, $40, 500.
The conferees on the bill to license
billiard and pool tables in the District have
agreed on the following bill:
A license of S12 per annum is TO be
charged for each table, all licenses TO ex-
pire on October 81 OF each year. Failure to
take out license is made punishable by
a fine of $50, or imprisonment for three
months. Section of the bill reads as
follows:
section 4 That it shall not be lawful
for the proprtetors of billiard tables, pool
tables, bagatelle tables, Jenny lind tables,
or other tables Of the kind mentioned In
the first section of this act, shuffleboards
and bowling alleys, kept for public hire
and gain in the District OF Columbia to
sell or allow to be sold in the
same room spirituous vinous, or malt
liquors; and ali such places shall
be closed during the entire twenty-four
hours OF each and every Sunday, and also
during the hours that barrooms are re-
quired to be closed. Any person violat-
ing the provisions of this section shall, on
conviction, be punished by a fine OF not
less than five nor more than forty dollars,
and shall in addition forfeit his or her
license, in the discretion OF the Com
nissioners OF the District of Columbia"
Hospital for the Insane-For repairs of
damages to buildings occasioned by the
cyclone, 81 200.
Repairs to United States Jail-For erec-
ton of necessary cell accommodations for
female prisoners and concreting the walls
Of the building, S16,500.