The times., 1898-03-03

account created by the act of July 10,
1882 and the sum of S293. $50. 10 is also here
by appropriated out of the surplus general
revenues of the District of Columbia, to
be applied 10 such parts of thetwork and
in such order as to time as the Secretary
of War may deem necessary to promote
as soon as practicable the completion of
the entire system of said works: Provid-
ed That the sums herein set apart and
appropriated shall be Immediately avail
able and shall be expended under the di
recton Of the Secretary of War and the
supervision of the chief of engineers and
the work shall be carried on by contract
or otherwise, as the Secretary of War
may deem best for the public interests
One of the most important amendments
made to the bill Is that appropriating
| $i2, 100 for repairs TO the plumbing of
school buildings. If the list of school
| houses in which defective plumbing has
been found were published the schools
would be depopulated, at once. The con-
dition is deplorable, and 1.-THE Senate will
/ insist that this paragraph remain in the
| bill
| In the fire department the item for the
| purchase of hose hassbeeniincreased from
| $500 to $4,000; purchase Of horses, from
81 800 to So 000; forage, from IS. 900 to So 600;
contingent expenses, from 80, 800 to $1,000.
Provision is also made for an addi
! tional stable to be erected in the rear of
| No s engine house, ION North Carolina
! avenue, between Sixth and Seventh
streets southeast, at a cost of s., 600; also
for four new hose carriages, at $1,000.
| As was expected, the, Senate cut out the
| telephone rates fixed Shy the House. The
provision inserted by the House and cut
out in the Senate was as follows:
THAT from and after the passage Of
this act it shall be unlawful for any per-
son or any telephone company doing busi-
! ness in the District of Columbia to charge
or receive more. than fifty dollars per
| annum for the use of a telephone on a
separate wire forty dollars for each tele-
phone, there being not more than two on
| a wire; thirty dollars for each telephone,
there being not more than three on n
wire and twenty-five dollars for each
telephone, there being four or more on
| the same wire.
The House changed the usual mode of
! distributing the charity appropriations to
| the various institutions and provided a
lump sum of s9S 700 to be expended by the
| Commissioners under contract with com
petent persons or institutions or by en-
ploying public institutions or agencies
| when practicable, provided that no con-
| tract should extend beyond June 30, 1893.
| The Senate went back to the former plan
! of appropriating for the use of the nsti-
| tutions direct and fixed the amounts as
| follows:
For relief OF the poor, $13. GOO.
For temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and
| Sailors, Grand Army of the Republic, s., 800.
For furniture, bedding, crockery and cooking
| utensils for the temporary home, $500.
For the Women's Christian Association, main
| tenance, 81, 600.
For Central Dispensary and Emergency Hos.
pital, maintenance, $4,000
For repairs and improvements, $1,000.
For the Childrens Hospital, maintenance S10,-
COO
For the National Homeopathic Hospital AS
sociation Of Washington, District OF Columbia,
for maintenance, IS, 500
For the Washington Hospital for Foundlings,
maintenance, $4,000.
For the Church Orphanage Association OF Saint
Johns Parish, maintenance, 1900
For the German Orphan Asylum, maintenance,
81 500.
For the National Association for the Relief OF
| Destitute Colored Women and Children, mainten-
ance, including repairs, $1,000.
For st. AIMS Infant Asylum, maintenance, 3d.
400.
For Association for Works of Mercy, mainten.
ance. 81 500
For House OF Good Shepherd, maintenance, ST.
ZOO.
For the St. Rose Industrial School, maintenance,
81, 500
For St Joseph's Asylum. maintenance, 81, 500.
For Young Womeus Christian Home, 81 600.
For Hope and Help Mission maintenance, 81
For Newsboys' and Children's Aid Society,
maintenance $1,000.
For Eastern Dispensary. maintenance, 81 900.
For Washington Home for Incurabes, mainten
ance, 81, 900.
For Municipal Lodging House and wood and
stone yard including rent, $4,000.
For repairs to Municipal Lodging House. $500
For the Columbia Hospital for Women and
LyiDg-in Asylum, including repairs and turni
ture, 5000.