The morning times., 1897-02-18

Work on streets, avenues and alleys,
$IO0, 600.
Paving streets, additional, Sl1 800
Suburban sewers, 1000
Completing Rock Creek sewer, $40 600
Constructing Tiber Greek and New Jer-
sey avenue sewers, $50 900.
County roads, S94,00
Gaslighting, S50,O
Bridge across Rock Creek, plans, etc,
$1,000
Washington aqueduct, 81 600.
Washington aqueduct tunnel, S266, = 40.
Public schools, 81 5000.
School buildings, $4,000.
Metropolitan police, S63 800
Telegraph and telephone service. $500.
Fire department, S65, 800.
Health department, SAT 400.
Enclosure OF Jail grounds, $50 900
Charitable institutions, net, $4,000
Columbia Hospital for Women, repairs,
$4,000.
Reform School for Girls, $240.
Home Industrial School, S2,l00.
Militia, expenses Of rifle practice and
matches, $500.
Total, 81 ,329,e66
The rcduct ons from the House appro-
pTiations are as follows:
EiectHc nghuhSr Slo,bOo-
Contagious diseases hospital, $4,000.
Total reduction, SI25.CU
Net increase, 81 .2o4 ,s66.
The fire department Increases over the
House biil ale:
One additional foreman, al 81 COO.
Seven Il. ore pIivates, at $500 each.
Repairs 10 engine houses 81 eco.
Repairs TO apparatus, 81 eco.
Contingent expenses, $4,000.
Exchanging old style truck for aerial
turn table, So, 500.
For one engine house, between Seventh
and Twelfth and c and f northwest,
$50, 600.
Tie S16, 200 appropriation for an An
BCostia engine house is made Immediately
available.
Extension Of the fife alarm telegraph,
including new boxes, S15 coo.
The number OF the Metropolitan police
Is increased over the House bill from 2s6
privates OF Class j 10 3ls, and from "a
privatcs Of Glass 2 to 226. Glass l
privates receive $500 per annun, and
those of Glass 81 ,osO.
The House provision relating to charities
which appropriated lump sum of S94 600,
is stricken out, and the following sep
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Poor relief, $4,000
Home for eX-S0ldiers and sailors Of the g
A. R., $500.
Women's Christian Association, $4,000.
Central Dispensary and Emergency Hos
pital. $4,000
National Homeopathic Hospital Associa-
tion, OF Washington, $500.
washington Hospital for Foundlings,
$4,000.
Church 0rphanage Association Of St
Johns Parish, S1,s00.
Childrens Hospital, $4,000.
German Orphan Asylum, 81 800
National Association for Destitute Col
pred Women and Chilren, $4,000.
st. AIMS Infant Asylum, So, 400.
Association Works Of Mercy, 81 500.
House Of Good Shepherd S2,700.
ST. Rose Industrial School, 81, 500.
St Joseph's Asylum $1,000.
Young Woman's Christian Home, 81. BOO
Hope and Help Mission. 81, 900.
Newsboys' and Chidren's Aid Society,
$1,000
Eastern llspensary, $1,000.
washington Home for Incurables. 81, 900.
Municipal lodging house and wood and
Ftone yard, 81, 600.
Ing-in Asylum, s. 900.
The sum OF Sl6.0 900. the same as the
HousebIll provided for Freedman Hospital,
but the provision that the superintendent
shall reside at the hospital, is stricken out
Asnow amended. the bill provides fortwo
Inspectors of garbage at 81 200 each.
Among the most important items of
amendment agreed to is the appropriation
OF $50 900 for the construction of two
isolating hospitals. The amendment con-
fines the location OF these hospitals TO the
grounds of two OF the existing hospitals
The Secretary of the Interior, and the
surgeons general OF the army and marine
hospital service are lso made commission
% examine suitable sites for a conta gioug
diseases hospital.
A cook is provided for the Reform School
for girls. at $3.50 year; and the appro-
priation for the Industrial Home School
SIS raised 10 $i2 600.
The familiar A. p. A proposition comes
in as a Senate committee amendment, in
the following language: 1t is the policy
OF the United States to make no appropria-
ton Of money or property for the pur-
pose OF founding, maintaining or aiding
any church or religious denomination or
any institution under Sectarian or eccIesi-
astical control; and after June 80, 1898,
no money appropriated for charitable pur-
poses in the District shall be paid to any
church or religious denomination. or TO
any institution or society under sectarian
or ecclesia stical CONTROL
The Senate committee has disposed OF
the electric lighting proposition by re-
ducng the appropriation and stopping all
extensions OF service. Incidentally, IT has
distinctly favored the United States Electric
Lighting Company. The paragraph, as
amended now reads
''For electric arc lighting includ-
ing necessary inspection, in those streets
lighted with electric arc lights. on the
LIST day of January, 1897, $40, 900. Not
more than 3 cents per night shall be paid
for any electric arc light burning from
forty-five minutes after sunset TO forty
five minutes before sunrise, and operated
wholly by means OF underground wires and
each arc light shall he of not less than
1000 actual candle power, and no part
OF this appropriation shall be used for
electric lighting by means Of wires
that may exist on or over any Of the streets
or avenues of the city Of Washington Pro-