The morning times., 1897-03-04
DISTRICT APPROPRIATIONS
Conferees Agree After a Whole
Day Of Controversy.
BOTH SIDES ARE STUBBORN
Senate Amendments on Electric
Lighting and Charities Agreed
To-Anti-Sectarian Schools Pro-
vision Stands-The Aqueduct
Tunnel.

Shortly before midnight the conferees
on the District of Columbia appropriation
bill reached an agreement on the matters
| tina thad been in controversy all day
between the two houses. 1t was decided
| by the Senate confefees to drop the
amendment providing for the purchase
! of the old Corcoran Art Gallery site for
| building for the Court of Claims. The
| House receded from its refusal TO accept
| the Senate amendments relative to the
| electric lighting, and these stand finally
| as provided by the Mcmillan compromise
| amendment passed by the Senate. The
| House yielded in its contention with the
| Senate over appropriations for charities.
| The House appropriated lump sum Of
! $94 roo for the support OF District char-
| ties. The Senate amended this by making
| specific appropriations for twenty-five diff
| ferent institutions, and the Senate appro-
| priations stand with slight amendments.
| The Senate conferees held out strongly
| for their amendment providing for the
resumption Of work on the Aqueduct tunnel,
| but the House was hostile to the resumption
| Of work and held out so stubbornly that
the Senate conferees were finally con-
strained to yield.
The Senate conferees also gave up the
free library. The bill, as it passed the
Senate, carried S6,720 for salaries for
librarian, assistant librarian, rent, fuel,
| etc, for the free library, a modest ap-
| preparation enough, but it did not appeal
successfully to the House conferees.
The anti -sectarian school provision in
| serted by the Senate stands 1t is as fol-
| lows: 1T is hereby declared to be the pol
| icy of the United States to make no appro-
| priation OF money or property for the pur-
pose Of founding, maintaining or aiding by
| payment for services, expenses, or other
wise, any church or religious denomination,
| or any institution or society which is under
| sectarian or ecclesiastical control: and
| it is hereby enacted that, from and after
| June 80, 1898, no money appropriated for
charitable purposes in the District of Co
lumbia shall be paid to any church or re-
| ligjous denomination, or to any Institution
or society which is under sectarian or ec-
clesastical control"
The House yields in the cont roversy
over penalties on taxes due and pay
able before July /, 1895. If these are
paid before July l next all penalties are
remitted except 8 per cent interest.
The Senate recedes from its efforts
to secure appro priations for payment of
| Judgments for lands condemned for the
| extension OF Sixteenth street, and for
lands condemned under the highway act
for the extension of Rhode Island avenue
from lie Droit avenue to Florida avenue.
The electric light provision of the de-
ficiency bill as agreed TO is as follows:
| Until Congress shall provide for q conduit
system il shah be unla wful TO lay conduits
or erect overhead wires for electric light
ing purposes in any road, street, avenue,
highway, park, or reservation except IS
hereafteI specifically authorized by law;
the Commissioners of the District OF Co
Iumbia are authorized 70 issue permits
for house connections with conduits and
overhead wires now existing adjacent
TO the premises with which such connec-
ton is to be made; and also permits for
public lighting connections with conduitS
already in the portion of the stree t
proposed to be lighted. And
nothing in the new law shall be con-
strued to affect In any way any pending
litigation involving the validity or in
validity or legality of the construction OF
| any conduits made since June s, S96, nor
to prevent the United States Electric Light
Ing Company from extending conduits into
Columbia Heights, Washington Heights, and
| Mount Pleasant within the fire limits, as
specifically provided in the act Of June
II, 1896, making appropriations for the
expenses of the government of the District
| of Columbia; and the existing overhead
wires of the Potomac Electric Power Com
| pany west of Rock Greek, and outside the
fire limits, TO be maintained for period OF
one year, and no longer"
At 10 o'clock last night Mr.. Grout
brought into the House the conference re-
| port on the District of Columbia appro-
priation bill. A debate OF thirty minutes
ensued in which Mr.. Dockery, Mr.. Barrett,
Mr. Moody, and Mr. Grout took part bu'
the House, by an almost unanimous vote,
| passed the bill
Ifthe Senate does not override the actlof
of its conferees the bill VIII become Ia"
in its present shape.
The charities provisions OF the Dill aS
it passes Congress are as follows: Reilel
of poor, $4,000; temporary home for eH
Union soldiers and sailors, G. A h,
So, 500; w. c. Association, 81 1000; Central
Dispensary and Emergency Hospital
$4,000; Children Hospital, S1o,ooo
National Homeopathic Hospital AS
sociation, SIS. 500; Washington Hes
pital for Foundlings, $4,000; Churcl
Orphanage Association of st. Johns Parish
s., 500; German orphan Asylum, Sl,soo
, National Association for Relief OF Destf
| tute Colored Women and Children, $3.50
| St AIMS Infant Asylum. $5,i0O; Asso
ciation for Works Of Mercy, 81 500; House
of Good Shepherd, S2,700; St Rose Indus
trial School, 81 800; st. Joseph S Asylum
81, 800; Young Women's Christian Home
, 81 900; Hope and Help Mission, Sl,ooO
Newsboys' and Children's Aid Society
ST 600; Eastern Dispensary, 81 900; Home
for Incurables, 50 900; Municipal Lodging
House, 81, 900; Columbia L ying-in Hospital
: $4,000. s.i+
f MRS. McKINLEY'S FOOTWEAR
Two pairs of shoes have been receives
. by Mrs Mckinley, who will wear them o.
I the occasion of the Inauguration ceiepra
ton. They were madeby q Tlrm at beiol
Wis, who say they have had the honor O
making the inaugural shoes for both Mrs
r Harrison and Mrs Cleveland. The tw
: pairs of shoes received by Mrs. Mchinle