Evening star., 1897-02-11
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL
It Was Reported to the House by the
Appropriations Committee.
LESS MONEY THAN GIVENFOR This YEAR
interesting Paragraph About the
City Post Office.
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The House committee on appropriations
today finished the sundry civil appropria-
tion bill for the next fiscal year. The bill
carries total of $J0664,74 This is S.
141, ,O6s less than the estimates, and s1S, S,644.-
100 more than the appropriations for the
current year: s17529,o53 of the appropria-
tion is for carrying out river and harbor
contracts and $4,0I2. 795 for public buildings.
The principal items for carrying on work
on public buildings are: Allegheny, Pa,
s555,oO0; Boise City, Idaho, 100000; Buffalo;
N. Y, s500,O00; Brockton, Mass, $4,000;
Cumberland, Md, $4,000; Cheyenne, Wyo..
sfOO.OoO; Denver, Col. (minD, s2Oo,Ooo;
Helena Mont. s1U0,OO0; Kansas City, Mo-.
s266 900; Meridian. Miss, $50, 900; Milwaukee.
Wis, $4O0,000; New York city appraiser $
warehouse, s3Oo.OOo: Newport, KY, s5o,ooo;
Paterson, n. j., $7O0O0: Portland, Ore,
s2O0,UO; Pueblo. Col, s150,0m: Pottsville,
Pa, s4oo00: South Omaha, Neb., $4,000:
St. Paul, Mimi. $l25,oo0: San francisco,
S1Oo,HD: Savannah, Ga, SI5,oo0; Washing
ton. d. c.. $4,000. The limit of cost of the
Omaha, Neb. building is increased s10oWr,
and s12I,00 is appropriated for finishing IL.
Sums for Harbor Work.
The largest sum for harbor works con-
tracted for by the Secretary of War fol-
low:
Philadelphia harbor, for removal Of
Smiths windmill and Petty Islands and
shoals, s6.4OO0; Galveston. S500,00O: the
Hudson river. $500,OOO: improvement of
channel connecting the great lakes between
Chicago, Duluth and Buffalo, $1HW.0O0;
Port Judith. r. l.. $SOO,0o0; Humboldt bay,
Cal, $4O,8O0: Gowanus bay, New York,
Bay Ridge. Red Hook and Buttermilk
channels, sioohoo; Savannah, Ga, s4oo,oo0:
Cumberland sound. Georgia and Florida,
sF0o00: Newton creek, New York, $751;
600. Portland, Me. s4U,WO; Rockland, Me-,
s+U 0OO; Boston, $4O.ooG: Buffalo, $3.50 900:
Dunkrk, n. Y. sf9S,ooo; Delaware bay.
Delaware s45m"; Winyaw bay, South
Carolina, s400U0: Sabine Pass Texas,
s4HGH: Cleveland, s4W.0o0; Milwaukee.
Sl6S.UO: Duluth and Superior, s5tuOOO:
Grays harbor, Washington, slOo,e0.
River Appropriations.
The river appropriations are: Providence
river and Narragarsett bay, s125, 900; AL
leghany river, Pa, locks and dams at Herr
Island, above Six Mile Island and Spring.
dale, 500 upper Mononga ahela, six locks
and dams s40o0O0: Yazoo and Vicksburg
harbor, s4O0.0oo: Bayou Plaquemine. La,
sioo,o0: Cumberland, above Nashville,
three locks, S4o0,UO; Falls of the Ohio, at
Louisville, $4n,0O0; Ohio river, for dam
No 6, at mouth of Beaver river, $500 600;
Chicago river. $113,WW; Illinois and Missis-
Slppl canal, Sl,Wb.oD. waterway from ke-
weenaw bay to Lake Superior, 800 600;
Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio to
st. Paul, $613,3si, not more than S1O0un0 of
the sum to be used to prevent the Misss-
sippi breaking into the Cache river near
Beach Ridge, at Cairo H.; from mouth Of
Missouri river to St. Paul, SS26 CSC includ-
ing 100000 for sand bar at Dubuque and
sl3,WO for sand bar at Muscatine, Iowa
Mississippi. from head of the passes to
mouth of the Ohio. s2,5S3.3:s3: Missouri
from mouth to Sioux City, S}00,0pO, includ-
ing s25,O0 for repairing works at Nebraska
city: Willamette and Yamhill rivers, Ore
100000.
Washington Post Office.
The bill contained number of appropria-
tions of local interest. For the Washing
ton city post office $4,000 is appropriat-
ed for completion and $65, 900 for an cleo
trio lighting plant.
In connection with this item the follow
ing legislative provision is made:
The Secretary CT the Treasury shall no.
tify the Postmaster General as soon as the
post office building in the city of Washing
ton is completed and ready for occupancy
and thereupon the Post Office Department.
including the money order office, and the
office of the auditor for the Post Office De-
partmert, inc;Iding the records of said
office now in the Union building, and the
office OF the topoSrapher shall be removed
to said post office building, and shall cccu-
office, such rooms and other space as shall
be assigned by the Postmaster Ger eral
and thereafter said building shall be urder
the control of the Post Office Department
LAS soon as the present Post Office De-
partment building Is vacated, as herein
provided, the same shall be turned over to-
and thereafter be under, the control of the
Interior Department, to be occupied by the
Indian office, general land office, ard such
other offices or parts of offices or bureaus
O. the department as the Secretary of the
Interior shall direct.
For expense of removal of the Post Of
flee Department, including the money order
otilce, office of the auditor for the Post
Office Department and toposrapher's office
to the new post Office building, as herein
provided for, $4,000, so much thereof as
may be necessary
Other Local Items.
The following items of the appropriation
are in the bill:
For repairs to the Botanic Garden. So,
500; Improvement of grounds north of Ex-
ecutive Mansion, 5000; for greenhouses
and nursery, 5000; for Lafayette Park,
$1,000; for Franklin Park $1,000; for Lin
coin Park, 5000; for Washington monu-
ment grounds, $1,000; for reservation num-
Der IL and site of old canal, 5000; for
fences ard coping about reservations, ST.
800; for miscellaneous items connected
with preservation of public grounds SPA
OOO0; for Smithsonian grounds, $500; Tor
Judiciary Square. $500; for asphalt walks
5000.
For Capitol building and grounds, $12,-
600; Capitol grounds and building, for
lighting. $4,000; Capitol building, repairs
S}O,0oO; for Senate stables, $500; new boiler
for House wing, $500.
For repairs to court house, 81 600; for
| the Deaf and Dumb Institution, s57 500; for
destitute patients, Providence Hospital
$4,000; for expenses of Executive Mansion
| $4,000; for Executive Mansion repairs and
| lighting, s1G,43l.
For Garfield Hospital, $1,000; for St
ElizaSeth's Insane Asylum, s297 721; for
HowaAd University, 2,G00; for Interior
Department and pension buildings repairs
5000; for National Museum, $22l 600; for
Washington monument, $11 $40; for Zoo
logical Park, $4,000.
Some of the Cuts Made.
| The Treasury Department estimates in
cluded $1,5S4. 7S5 for lighthouses, beacons
| and fog signals, but the bill allows only
| s196,500. Under this head there is an item
| of $31,JO0 for a steam tender for the second
| lighthouse district and a~similar item for
| the seventh district; 10000 for finishing
| the steam lightship at Fire Island, N Y:
$1,000 for new station at Bunbay, s. c. !;