The morning times., 1897-02-26
suNDRY CIVIL BILL READY
Consideration of 1t Finished by
the Senate Committee.
ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST
a Proposition to Purchase the Old
Corcoran Art Gallery for the
Court of Claims Electric Lights
for Lafayette, Franklin, Judiciary
and Lincoln Parks.

The Senate Committee on Appropl iations
yesterday completed wolk on the sundry
civil till. Tie principal amendments made
in the committee to the House bin, of inter
est to the District Of Columbia are as 1ol-
lows: For drawings and illustrations for
publications. Of tie National Museum, So,
BOO. for u new officer, Librarian of the
Treasury Department, 81 200; for salaries
of fsupenEte endent, counters 5. .nIesSemg gers, and
watchmcn in charge OF paper and stamps,
$4,000 for the care Of the steam heating
and ventilating apparatus of the Senate
and Supreme Court, S3,l65; addition TO
Garfield Memorial Hospital $685. 600, to
construct additional accommodations at
the government hospital for tie insane re-
ceived from the National Home, $4,000;
expense of unyeling the statue of Samuel
il. GLOSS on the Smithsonian grounds, $500.
The electric light provisions are as fol-
lows:
For lighting thirty-two arc lights in La
fayette, Franklin, Judiciary and Lincoln
parks 365 nights, at - cents per light per
night, which shall cover the entire cost to
the United States OF lighting and maintain
ing in good order each electric light in
said parks, $500. Provided, that here
after there shall be no extension OF electric
lighting service, and 1t shall he unlawful to
open any OF the streets, roads, avenues, al
leys or other public highways, or any of
the parks or reservations, in the District
OF Columbia for the purpose of laying cleo
tric wires, cables or cOnduits therein until
specifically authorized by la W.
There is also an appropriation of $500
for plans for the Potomac River memorial
bridge. Authority is given the medical
department OF the Army TO sell supplies at
contract prices TO the soldiers Home, and
an appropriation OF $1,000 for repairing
the vault in the office Of the register cf
wills; for the purchase OF the Corcoran AIT
Gallery for the Court Of Claims.
Omaha Xposition-Increascd from $500
600 TO 1870 900, and limiting the cost OF
the government buildings to 900.
Sugar bounty-To pay balance of claims
of sugar producers under the Mckinley act,
81 ,0S5,l56
Soldiers Home at Hot Springs, s. D.
100000.
Nicaragua Canal Commission-C Continuing
surveys and examinations with a view Of
making plans for the entire work of con
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appoint three engineers as commission.
The employees Of Congress are given the
months extra pay that is customary at the
end of the session.
Deep waterways commission: For snr-
ycys and examinations Including estimate
Of cost OF deep waterways and the routes
thereof, between the great lakes and the
Atlantic tidewaters, as recommended by
the deep waterways commission, $3.50 600.
Such examinations and surveys shall lie
by board of three engineers to be ,iesig-
mated by the President, one of when may
be detailed from the Engineer Corps OF
the Army, one from the Coast and Geodetic
Survey, and one shan be appointed from
civil life
Pearl harbor, Hawaiian Islands-Im-
provement OF entrance, so, 900.
A new piece Of legislation provides that
hereafter the Secretary Of War shall an
nually submit estimates in detail for river
and harhor improvements required for the
ensuing fiscal year to the Secretary Of the
Treasury, TO be included in and carried
into the sum total Of the book of esti-
mates: and all such river and harbor csti-
mates shall be considered and reported on
in a separate bin by the committee Of each
House having charge of river and harbor
improvements
The reductions fell heaviest upon the
items for continuing river and harboT
improvements under the contract system.