The evening times., 1897-03-04
DISTRICT APPROPRIATIONS
ConfereeS Agree After a Whole
Day of Controversy.
Senate Amendments on Electric
Lighting and Charities Agreed
To-Anti-Seetarjan schools Pro-
vision Stands-The Aqueduct
Tunnel.

Tunnel.
Shortly before midnight the eonferees
on the District of Columbia appropriation
bill reached an agreement on the matters
tina thad been in controversy all day
between the two houses. II was decided
by the Senate ccnferees to drop the
amendment providing for the purchase
OF The old Corcoran Art Gallery site for
a building for the Court OF Claims. The
House receded from its refusal To accept
the Senate amendments relative 80 the
electric lighting. snd these stand finally
as provided 10y the Mcmillan compromise
amendment passed by the Senate. The
House yielded in its contention with the
Senate over appropriations for charities.
The House appropriated a lump sum or
So, 700 for the support Of District ehari-
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 conferecs held out strongly
for their amendment providing for the
resumption OF work on the Aquesluct 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. modest ap-
Precipitation enough, but il did not appeal
successfully to the House conferees.
The anti seotarian school provision in
serted by the Senate stands. II 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 lis under
sectarian or ecclesiastical control: and
il is hereby enacted that, from and after
June 80. S9S, no money appropriated for
charitable purposes in the District of Co
lumbia shall be paid To any Church or re-
heious denomination. or TO any institution
or society which is under sectarian or &c
clesiastical 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
renlitted except per cent interest.
The Senate recedes from it's efforts
to secure appropriations 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 bin as agreed to is as follows;
Until Congress shall provide for a conduit
system Il shall lie unlawful to lay conduits
or erect overhead wires for electric light
ing purposes in any road, street, avenue,
highway, park, or reservation except as
hereafter specifically authorized by law;
the Commissioners of the District OF Co
lumhia are authorized TO 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 couduits
already in the portion OF the street
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 conduit is made since June 8, L S96, nor
to nrevent the United states Electric Light
ing Company from extending condUfts into
columbia Heights Washington Heights, and
Mount Pleasant within the fire limits, as
.1,d in a1t Of Tnp.a
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 hill A debate OF thirty minutes
ensued in which MR Dockery. Mr. Barrett,
MFR. Moody, and Mr. Grout took part, but
the House, by an almost unanimous vote,
passed the biIl
1.-THE Senate does not override the action
of its conferees the bin will become a law
In its present shape
The charities provisions OF the bill as
1t passes Congress are as follows: Relief
Of poor, 81 5000; temporary home for ex-
Union soldiers and sailors, G. A. R.,
So. 500: w c. Association, $4,000; Central
Dispensary and Emergency Hospital,
$4,000; Children Hospital, $4,000;
National Homeopathic Hospital As
sociation. Ss, 500; Washington Hos
pital for Foundlfngs, $4,000; Church
oribhanage Association of st. Johns arish,
81 SOC; German orphan Asylum, 81 500;
National Association for Relief of Desti-
tute Colored Women and Children, SO 800;
ST. AIMS Infant Asylum, S5,400; Asso-
citation for Works of Mercy, 81 soc; House
Of Good Shepherd, 50, roo; st. Rose Indus
trial School, 81, 800; st. Joseph's Asylum,
81 800; Young women's Christian Home,
81 900: Hope and Help Mission, 81 900;
Newsboys' and Children's Aid Society,
81 900; Eastern Dispensary, 81 900; Home
for Incurables, So. 900; Municipal Lodging
House, 81, 900; Columbia Lying-in Hospital,
S25, 900.