Evening star., 1897-03-03
Agreement Reached On Many Items
in the District Bill.
ELECTRIC LIGHTING STILL UNSETTLED
Changes Necessary in the Street
improvement Schedule.
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made a partial report from the committee
| on conference on the District Of Columbia
| appropriation bill.
The Senate confereeS agreed to strike out
| the Senate amendment which requires the
deputy collector of the District to perform
| the duties of the collector without addi-
| tiCnal compensation when the latter shall
| be absent or unable to perform such duties.
The conferees had not agreed on the pro-
vision for free public library, nor on the
| provision that all penalties on taxes due
| and payable on or before July l, 1895, shall
| be remitted, provided the taxes are paid
| with per cent interest on or before July
| 1, 1897.
The conferees agreed to strike out the
amendment appropriatirg $1,000 to enable
| the register of wills to compare, correct
and reproduce certain records or will books.
Senate amendments for the payment of
j. 0gmentS for the land condemned for the
extension of 10th street by'the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia to be
paid wholly out of the revenues of the Dis
| trict of Columbia, and for an appropriation
of $30,OOO to pay for lands condemned un-
der the highway act for the extension of
Rhode Island avenue from LIE Droit ave
nue. to Harewood avenue, are still in con-
ference.
The conferees agreed to fix the approoria-
ton for assessment and permit work at
S1jO.OO0, the House having made the figure
sl25,OO0 and the Senate s175,00O.
improvements and Repairs.
Under the head improvements and re-
pairs. for which the House had fixed $780,
| o6o and the Senate 100000. the conferees
agreed on $165.000. Accordingly a reduc-
ton will be made in the Georgetown.
northwest, southeast. southwest and north
east schedules.
The Senate conferees agreed to strike out
the Senate amendment apprOpriating $I0Oj
for paving with asphalt East Capitol street
between 11th and 18th streets :.outheast.
The conferees agreed on the following
Sei.ate amendments: Paving H street be-
tween I'D and sd streets northwest S4,.Rh
paving Morris street between 9th and 18th
streets northeast, $1,000: removing cobbie
stones and repairing with asphalt block
D street between 9th and Ith streets south
east, $4,000.
The conferees compromised on an ap-
preparation of 5000 for paving North Cap
itol street between and Q streets, the
Senate amendment having provided S.0Oo
for paving that street between o and K
streets.
The appropriation of 5000 for paving
the north half of B street between 9th and
10th streets northwest was stricken from
the bill.
Under the head of sewers, s70.00o was al
lowed for suburban sewers the House hav-
ing in its original bill allowed $56Ws) which
The Senate receded from its amendment in
ere asing from $4,000 to $13o,UOO for com
pletion of the upper portion Oh the Roch
creek and b street intercepting sewer, and
the confereeS agreed upon Shi.VO. Th.
confeTees also agreed to retain the appro
priation of S50.0D0 for constructing in part
the Tiber creek and New Jersey avenue
high-lcyel Intercepting sewer. which had
been increased in the Senate TO SlGJ.oD
Under the appropriation for paving Con
recticut avenue and Columbia road be
tween Florida avenue and 18th street eX-
tended the House inserted a provision
that the owners thereof shall dedicate tn
spaces for widening said Columbia road
within the limits LGme1 for conformity
with the recorded plans Of highway ex-
tensions" The Senate struck out this pro-
vision, and the conferees agreed to elimi-
nate 1t.
The Senate inserted u provision for regu
iating and paving Baltimore street froc
Columbia road to goth street and thence
along 20th street to the Adams Mil roaG
entrance to the Geological Park. for which
$1,000 was appropriated. The conferees
agreed 10 retain tas provision with az
amendment, provided enough funds re-
manned from the appropriations already
made to carry it out.
Suburban Streets.
The conferees agreed the followin g
amendments inserted in the bill while in
the Senate:
For grading and regulating Clifton. Irv-
ing. Yale Bismarck. Harvard. Columbia
Steuben. Keresaw. Wallach and 18th
streets from 9TH to 14th streets and Roa-
rCke and Princeton streets from 7th to
Eth streets. 5000 grading and regulating
Sherman avenue. $1,000: grading and regu-
lating kenesaw avenue and Park road.
$4,000; grading and graveling 22d and
24th streets Langdon, $4.ND: grading and
regulating 18th street extended from Flor
ida avenue to Mt. Olivet road. $10.100 paw
ing Massachusetts avenue extended frora
I'D street to Sheridan Circle. 5000 i'm
proving 37th street between Back stree:
and Tenleytown road at or near Schneider
laEe. Stills: paving Spruce and Bohrer
streets from Larch street to Florida ave
nue., $1,000; grading and gravellng Joliet
street from Connecticut avenue extended
to the Geological Park. 5000; grading,
regulating and paving Princeton street
and Roanoke street from 18th street to
14th street 5000.
The conferecs agreed to strike out the
following: For paving Spruce street, LIE
Droit Park. from Larch street to Harewood
avenue. $500: for grading and graveling
Albemarle street and opening same to
Grant road. 5000; for grading Pennsylva-
MIA avenue extended southeast, s., coo: con-
tinuing Improvement Of the road extending
from Broad Branch road to Chevy Chase
Circle 5000: improving and protecting
Connecticut avenue extended beyond Rock
creek, $1,000; grading and regulating Prov
iGence. Lansing, Hartford and 10th streets
Brookland. 5000: purchase of land belong
Ing to Catholic University, lying between
the west line Of Sth street east extended,
the Metropolitan branch of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad. Bunker Hill road and
the north line of the Catholic University
grounds. 5000: grading and regulating
Lowell street from 18th street to Klinsle
Ford road. 10000: grading and regulating
Michigan avenue. 10000: grading and i'm
proving G street from 1st street east to 4th
street northeast, $4,000.
The conferees agreed upon an appropria-
| tion of $4,000 for grading and regulating
Emporia street from 10Th street to Brent
" ood road, the Senate amendment having
allowed 5000 for this work
The pre- vision for the straight extension
of Connecticut avenue, inserted in the bill
en- motion Of Senator Mcmillan, was agreed
to. except that portion which approprt.t les
10000 for bridge across Rock creek.
No Agreement as to Electric Lighting
The House conferees agreed to the Senate
amendment increasing the appropriation for
Illuminating material. ETC., from $135 900 to
$1S5, 900; also to the Senate amendmen. In
creasing from SIG to $50 per annum for
each street lamp, lighted by gas or oil,
The conferees have failed to agree on the
provisions regarding electric arc lighting
all of the provisions which give certain
powers to the two electric light companies
to make extensions. etc. being still in CON