Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-06
MONEY FOR DISTRICT
Senate Changes in Appropriation
Bill.
new PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD
Other Amendments Affecting Diff
ferent Departments.
INCRE ASES PROVIDED

$7,457, 755.31. The total increase provided
for is $726456. The total amount appro-
priated in the bill reported to the Senate
Is S421 ,S36.17 less than the estimates of the
Commissioners, and it is an increase over
the appropriation for 1900 of S621 ,21954.
The total increases allowed follow: Ex-
ecutive office, $500; collectors office, 81 400;
auditors office, $1,500; attorneys office.
$500; engineers office, $3.50; street sweeping
office, $500; contingent and miscellaneous,
District government 81 500; furniture for
municipal building, $500; improving the
municipal wholesale market $4,000; as
sessment and permit work, 500, 900; work on
streets and avenues as per schedules, ST5,-
ooo; paving 18th street from V to w streets,
S5,5OO; paving 1th street from Pennsylvania
avenue to E street and from G to K streets,
S24,0oO; damages and losses on account of
construction of Tiber creek and New Jer-
sey avenue sewer, $4,000; constructing L
street sewer, 100000; preparation of plans
for sewage disposal system, $40, ,000 repairs
to streets, avenues and alleys, S20,G00;
construction of county roads, s102,-
eoo; sprinkling, sweeping and cleaning
streets, etc, $4,000; collection and disposal
of ashes, $4,000; gas and oil lighting, ST.
600; harbor and river front, $iOO; Connecti-
cut avenue bridge, $4,000; Washington
aqueduct, $4,000; public schools, S27,950;
metropolitan police, 500 0o0; place of de-
tention for children, $S,0G03fre department,
$4,000; telegraph and telephone service So
800; health department, $13,3OO; Police
Court, 81 500; defending suits in Court of
claims, $1,000; care and improvement of
Rock Creek Park, $4,000; support of con-
Victs $1,000; support of prisoners 81 coo:
Washington Asylum, S26, GOO; Reform School.
$4,000; Industrial Home School, S20O19:
mil 10 of bn ~
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The amendment on the public schools in
full follows:
Public School Amendment.
The President of the United States is
hereby authorized to nominate and, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate
to appoint seven persons, bona fide resi-
dents and taxpayers of the District of Co.
lumbia, and who have been such for five
years Immediately preceding their appoint
ment, who shall constitute a board Of edu-
cation, and whose term of Office shall be
seven years, except that the terms of the
persons first appointed shall terminate as
lolloWs: one each year, to be determined
by lot among the seven members of the
board first appointed. The CONDENSATION
of members of the board shall be SO each
for personal attendance at each meeting
but shall not exceed for any member $500
per annum. The board shall have complete
jurisdiction over all administrative matters
connected with the pubic schools OF the D,s
trict of Columbia, except that all eypedi-
lures of public funds for such school pur-
poses shall be made and accounted for as
now provided by law under the direction
and control of the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia
The board shall make all needful rules
and regulations which may be proper for
the government and control of said schools,
and snail make annual report to the Com
missioners of the District of Columbia VINO
shall transmit the same to Congress, of
the condition and operations of said
scnoois, ana the sanitary and structural
condition of all buildings in use as well as
those in course of construction, with recon-
mendations as respects needed changes
Power of the BOARD.
The board shall have power to appoint
one superintendent for all the public
schools of the District of Columbia, two
assistant superintendent, a secretary and
three clerks, and to remove said officers
at its pleasure, and shall also have power
to employ and remove all teachers, officers
and other employees connected with the
public schools not already specified: Pro-
vided That the graduates of the Normal
School shall have preference in all cases
when appointments of teachers for the pub
lie schools are to be made. The superiu-
tendent shall annually submit to the board
for its approval the course Of studies and
list of text books and other apparatus to he
used in said schools.
The board shall annually transmit to the
Commissioners of the District of Columbia
an estimate in detail of the amount of
money required for the public schools for
the ensuing year, and said Commissioners
shall include the same in their annual es-
innate of appropriations for the District
of Columbia
of public schools shall take effect on the
1st day Of July, 1900, except the provision
authorizing the appointment of the men,
bers Of said board of education, which shall
take effect Immediately; provided, that
members of said board shall not enter upon
their duties until the 1st day of July as
aforesaid; and all acts and parts Of acts
in conflict herewith are hereby repealed
board of education at $500 each $500. not
more than s1,750 of which shall be used
during the first half of the fiscal year; one
of public schools, $1,000; two |
secretary, $1,000: three clerks at 81 800 each: |
one messenger, $720; in all, sci, $50.
No Director of High Schools.
The bill is amended to strike out the titles |
of director of high schools, principals OF |
buildings &c, and appropriates for them as |
teachers. There is an addition of Two |
teachers at 81, 800 each. One at 81, GOO and |
one at $500 are dropped. Thirty-two in
stead of thirty at $1,000 are provided for, |
and eighty-five instead of eighty-six at |
81 600 each. The salaries of sixty teachers |
at s425 and fortyeight at s400 are raised to |
$3.50 each.
A janitor for the Western High School is |
provided at 81 400 instead of $1,000.
Books of reference and periodicals are
allowed to be purchased under the head of
contingent expenses.
The provision for the four-room building
at $4,000 for Twining City is amended SO |
that the building may be placed anywhere
in the eighth division.
The following are provided: For addi-
donal amount for four-room school build
ng. Takoma Park. 5000; improving and
nclosing grounds of the Hubbard School
Heights, $500; for the purchase
and improvement of lot II, block-13. for the
of the Fairgrounds of the
Brookland school, $500. or SO much thereof
Is may be necessary.
It Is also provided that in the purchase of
sites for new school houses in the future re-
gard shall be had for the future enlarge
nent of such buildings.
For illuminating material for public
amps. etc. $4,000 instead Of SIS, COO is al
lowed: The limitation of cost of lamps is /
amended by provision that mo more than