Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-02
THE DISTRICT Bill |
Appropriations Increased by senate Com
mittee 81. 469, 650.63.
Special Items Fayorably COnxi9erea-
A Comprehensive Amendment He
garding Electric Wires.

The committee On appropriations reported
to the Senate this afternoon the District of
Columbia appropriation bill.
The report shows that the total appro-
priations passed by the House of Rep
resentatives have been increased by the
Senate committee 81, 4tf9 6Jo63, the amount
appropriated by the House being $685.
G47.51. This makes the total amount as
reported to the Senate by the appropria-
tions committee s7,076.29S20
The increases over those of the bill as it
passed the House follow:
For executive Office, $500; assessors Of
fee, 5000: auditors office, 5000; sealer Of
weights and measures office, $40; free
ters, 81 100: repairs to the morgue, S. 100,
COO: suburban sewers, $4,000.
Tiber creek and New Jersey avenue sew
er. completing, $1sl.0O0; Tiber creek and
New Jersey avenue sewer, commencing
sewage pumping station, $4,000: arranging
District records. S1,500: reproducing rec
ords. register of wills, $1,000; special re-
pairs market houses, $500; Typographical
surveys in Georgetown. $1,000; condemna
ten for extension of 18th street, 1850.
Enforcing game and fish laws, $500; work
on streets and avenues, as per schedule.
SlD.UD; paving roadways under permit
system, S150O; Improvement of specific
streets. $1,000; replacing and repairing
sidewalks and curbs. $4,000; repairs to
county rosds, $4,000; construction and
repair of county roads. $4,000; sprinkling,
sweeping and cleaning streets, avenues and
alleys. s34, 100; clearing snow and ice. $4,000;
parking commission, $1,000: lighting by gas
boat. $1,000; public pumps, 5000; or
binary care of bridges, $500: new
floor for Aqueduct bridge, $4,000;
Washington aqueduct. $4,000: inquiry as
to filtering water supply, 5000; Washing
ton aaueduct tunnel. completing. 1893 $50 20;
school teachers and janitors, 81, 100; kinder
garten truotion, $12, 900; manual train
ing. $1,000; necessary repairs to plumbing
in existing school buildings, $40, 100.
Text books and school supplies, $500;
eight-room school building, third division,
southeast, S4ocOO; four-room school build
ing on Grant road, $12,0oo: eight-room
school building and site, ninth division,
S41, 1850; manual training school building,
commencing construction, $5O.WD; Metro
politan police salaries and expenses. $685.,
2oo; fire department, salaries and eX-
penses, S15,4TI.
Health department. salaries and ex-
penses, &I2o; Washington Asylum, SAL
aries and expenses, scopes charities ard
charitable institutions, $1,000: Columbia
Hospital for Women. repairs and furniture,
$1,000; Industrial Home School, furniture
ard equipment, 81, 500: board of children's
guardians. $500; militia, $500.
The amounts Of District appropriation
acts of fiscal years from 1880 to 1885, in
elusive. follows: $780, $3.50. AGO: 1891,
s. 100, .44: 1892, So 597, 125; 1893, s5,317 .973
1894 s., Alb 223: 1896 50 545 CTS: 1886 So, 49,
4i3; 1897, s2,9oo,319 1898 sG.1s6.991.
Electric Wires.
Tia Senate committee inserted in the bill
the following provision regarding electric
light and telephone wires:
Provided, further, that the poles sup
porting electric light and telephone wires
not the property of the United States or the
District of Columbia within the section
bounded by B street north, LIST street east
the fire limits and Rock creek, shall he re-
moved within one year from the date OF
the passage of this act, excepting such al
ley poles may be needed for distribution
purposes as hereinbefore provided
In the District of Columbia all existing
conduits within the fire limits and all
overhead telephone and electric light wires
without the fire limits are hereby legaliZed
III til otherwise provided by law. The Com
missioners of the District of Columbia are
hereby authorized to issue permits for the
construction Of such conduits as may be
necessary to replace the overhead lines
required to be removed above and to con-
meet such new conduits with existing con-
QUITS at the nearest and most accessible
point for each or to accommodate the wires
of any telegraph company in said section;
provided mat Salu cOndultS snail pc lOSat-
ed as nearly as practicable under the over
head lines which they replace.
Said Commissioners are further author
zed to issue permits for the construction
Of surface conduts to sll squares adjacent
to street conduits and for such use poles
and overhead wires may be connected
Herewith may be- necessary for distr-
button in the square.
Also for the construction of overhead
telephone lines outside the aforesaid fire
limits by any company or corporation now
authorized to occupy the streets of Wash
ington with conduits, and also for the con-
struction by the United States Electric
Lighting Company additional conduit on
14th street as may be necessary to give
that company two continuous linss of con-
duit on 18th street northwest between E
street north and the fire limits.
And to extend it's 9th street conduit from
the corner of 9th and streets northwest
erly on Florida avenue to 18th street
thence north on 18th street to the fire lin
its, provided that all conduits and over
head lines constructed under authority of
this act shall be subject to such regulations
as the Commissioners of the District of CO.
lumbia may prescribe as to location size
and character of construction, and of All
conduts such number of ducts as the Com
missioners may prescribe shall be reserved
for the sole use of the United States in the
District of Columbia, free of charge, and
the owners of any conduit may rent their
conduit room in any other conduit upon
agreement with the owner thereof"