The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-07
MONEY FOR THE DISTRICT
Sundry Civil appropriation Bill
Reported to the Senate.
NO LOCAL AMENDMENTS TO 1T
Majority of the Items Expected to
Go to til o President as They Now
Appear IN the Bii1-FuIl List of
Appropriations That Have Been
Made for the District.

Il
| reported to the Senate yesterday FROM
the Committee on Appropriations, CON-
| tanned no amendment relative to items
| affecting the District OF Columbia 1t
is entirely safeto say that all the District
items which now appear in the bill will
remain when 1T reaches the resident.
! The following is resume Of the Dis
trict items that appear in the measure
For the completion of the Washington
postoffice, 10000.
| For repairs to the Treas ury, Butler and
| Winder buildings, $4,000
| For special repairs TO Treasury build
| ing, $4,000.
| For the National Geological Park, $685.
| 600, of which sum $1,000 is to be used
| for continuing the entrance into the park
| from Woodley Lane and opening drive
way to the park from the entrance along
| the banks of Rock Creek.
For employees in the Central Fish Sta
| ton, $4,000; for aquarium at Central
Station, ST $50; for fish ponds, $500.
For electric plant in the new postoffice
building, $4,000.
RepaIrs to Interior and Pension build
ings, $4,000.
Improving Capitol grounds, $12 900;
| lighting Capitol grounds, $24 900; new
boiler for the ii ouse, $500; clea ming and
repairing works of art in the Capitol, ST.
500; new flags for east and west front Of
the center of the Capitol, 500.
For the Government II ospital for the In
sane, S264,72l; general repairs and i'm
provemen ts, $15, 900.
There is also an appropriation reconstruct
additional accommodations al the Govern
ment Hospital for the insane persons re-
ceived at the National Home for Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers OF $50, 700, and $751;
900 for a new laundry.
Expenses OF the Columbia Institution for
the Deaf and Dumb, $54, 900; repairs, 'tc..
$500
Maintenance OF How ard University, ST.
800; industrial department, $4,000; Il
brary, 5000; improvement grounds, etc.,
500.
The following appropriations are made
for buildings and grounds in Washington:
Executive Mansion grounds, $4,000;
green houses and nursery, $4,000; La
fayette Park, 81 1000; Franklin Park,
81 900; LINCOLN Park, $4,000; Monument
Grounds, $4,000; Reservation II and old
canal 50, 1000; Smith sonian Grounds, So 500;
Judiciary p ark, $4,000
Expenses at the Executive Mansion, sea-
900.
For the Washington Monument, $11,-
$40
To meet the expenses OF burying INDECENT
soldiers and sailors In Arlington Cemetery,
$4,000
Memorial Bridge across the Potomac
River, estimates, ETC., 81, 800
IL is provided that hereafter the medical
department of the Army is authorized to
sell medical and hospital supplies at its
contract prices TO the Soldiers Home in
the District of Columbia.
The bin authorizes repairs to the court
house costing 81 900 and repairs to the
vault and office of the register of wills,
1000.
The bin carriesan appropriation of 50 900
to pay W B. Cooley and James r Ashe for
compiling and editing the postal laws and
regulations; to pay j B. Holloway $4,000
for compiling the decisions of the court
relative to war claims for the House COM
mittee Of that name.
The appropriation for the Botanic Gar
den is fixed at 800.
The language OF the electric Zig htiDg
provisions OF the bin which will become a
law is as follows:
For electric lights for three hundred
and sixty-five nights, from seven posts,
at 20 cents per light per night, on
grounds south of the Executive Mansion
SSH.
For lighting thirty-two arc electric
lights in Lafayette, Franklin, Judiciary
and Lincoln Parks three hundred and
sixty-five nights, at 20 cents per light
per night, which shall cover the entire COST
to the United States OF lighting and main
tanning in good order each electric light
in said parks, S2,920. Until Congress
shah provide for conduit system, it shall
be unlawful to lay conduts or erect over
head wires for electric lighting purposes
in any road street, avenue, highway, park,
or reservation, except as hereafter spe-
officially authorized by law: Provided,
however, that the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia are hereby author
lied to issue permits for house connections
with conduits and overhead wires now
existing adjacent to the premises with
which such connection is to be made; and
also permits for public lighting connec-
tions with conduits already in the portion
of the street proposed to be lighted. And
nothing herein contained 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 10, 1896,
nor to prevent the United States Electric
Lighting Company from extending con-
Quits into Columbia Heights, Washington
Heights and Mount Pleasant within the
fire limits. as specifically provided in the
act of June IL, 1896, making appropria-
tions for the expenses of the government
of the District of Columbia and the ex-
listing overhead wires of the Potomac Elec-
trio Power Company west Of Rock Greek,
and outside the fire limits, are hereby au-
one year from the passage of this act, and
no longer"
The provisions Of the bill relative to
the ira nsfer Of the Postoffice Department
to the new Postoffice Building are as fol-
lows: 1.-The Secretary of the Treasury shall
notify the Postmaster General as soon as
the Postoffice Building in the city of Wash
ington is completed and ready for oecu-
pancy, and thereupon the PustOffice Depart
ment including the money order office and
the office of the Auditor for the Postoffice
Department, including the records of said
office now in the Union Building, anil the
office of the topographer, shall be removed |
to said Postoffice Building, and shall oc-
cupy therein, together with the city post |
office, such rooms and other space as shall |
&c aoSipppd NV the STEER General