The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-26
SUDDRY CIVIL EXPENSES
The Appropriation Bill Under Coz
sideration in The Senate.
Mr. Alien Opposes Crcmatories mt
Quarantine Standardization to
mn Allowance for pneumatic
Tube Service EuIoHies ON the
Late Representative Ermentrout.

The senate yesterday LOOK up lne SunuTy
Civil Appropriation bill and proceeded
with Its consideration. The increase over
the amount In the bill as carried by the
House is s4,3i6,6s5. The items of in
crease are as follows: Public buildings,
Detroit, Mich, elevator for old custom
house, $4,000; Macon, Ga, rental of tenn
rorary quarters, $1,000; lighthouses,
beacons, and fog signals, $40, 700; Life
Saving Service, $500; launch for custom
service, Astoria, Ore, $500; revenue cut
ter for service on St. Mary's River, Michi-
gan, 800; rent for agent of postage
stamps, $500; steamer for Coast Survey
Service, $20, 900; National Museum, collec-
tons, 100000: Geological Park fence,
$50 600; Fish Commission, 1910; 1nterj
state Commerce Commission, $4,000: Of
fee of Secretary of the Treasury. $3.50;
punishment for violations Of internal rev.
enue, s25 900; machinery for mint building
a. Denver Col, $4,000; compensation in
lieu of moieties. $4,000; fishing nets for
natives of Afoenak Island. Alaska $500:
quarantine service in Hawaii. 100000;
territorial government of Hawaii salaries,
ETC., $4,000; Capitol building, heating,
ventilating, etc. s5.2S5; Maltby building.
repairs. etc. s7.5S1.5O; Public Land
Service, $500; mineral lands in Non
tana and Idaho, $4,000; Geological
Survey; $4,000; Seqnoia National
Park improvements, s2l eco; Government
Hospital for the Insane, f21O00O; ROCK
Island Arsenal. $4,000; Watertown Ar
senal. Mass, s12.5C0: Schuylkill Arsenal,
Philadelphia, $4,000; addition TO Exeeu-
tive Mansion, $4,000 military post at Fort
Bismarck, n. D., 10000; military post at
Fort Meade. S. d., $4,000; military post at
Fcrt D. A. Russell. Wyo., $4,000; Missis-
sippi River. from Head of the Passes to
mouth of Ohio, s., 500, 0e0; Mississippi from
mouth Of Ohio to ST. Paul. Mimi, $3.50, GOO;
Missouri River, from mouth to Sioux City,
Iowa, $3.50, COO; repair of jetties at mouth
Of Columbia River, $3.50, goo; care Of ma
tional cemeteries. etc, 5000: isolating
ward, roads. etc, Garfield Hospital, $1,000;
military road in Wyoming, $4,000; inves-
tigation of claims for private property
taken in the military service, $4,000; Of
fee of naval records of the rebellion, $l,-
500; under Department of State, $4,000; De-
partment of Labor, So SEQ: repair to Court
House, Washington, ID. c.. s4.34S.5o; United
States District Attorneys Office, District
of Columbia, 1920; salaries of United
States district judges. 0,G00; salaries OF
clerk and reporter. United States District
Court, Hawaii, 1920; Industrial Commits
sion, expenses Of. continuance. l22,3o0;
statue Of Rochambeau and pedestal. $500;
total increase. sb,ooO,l65.
Items of Decrease.
The items OF decrease are: Rent for
internal revenue service at Syracuse, n.
Y, $1,000; Fort Whipple Barracks, Ari-
zona, $4,000; military posts, Fort Riley,
Kansas, $50, eco; payment to legal repre-
sentatives of James B. Eads. 100000; i'm
proving passes of the Mississippi River,
$l00, 600; digest Of opinions of the Attor-
ney General, $500. Total decrease. $685.
500. Ne, increase, si,3ls.e65.
The bill authorizes the President to ap-
point sn architect and a landscape archi-
tect. 10 be associated with the Chief of
Engineers Of the United States Army, to
make an examination and 10 report TO Con-
gress on the first Monday in December,
1900, plans for the enlargement OF the ex
ecutiye department, for the treatment OF
that section of the District of Columbia
situated south of Pennsylvania Avenue and
north of Street northwest. and for
suitable connection between Potomac and
Geological Parks. For the expenses Incl
dent to this report s1o,0 900 is appropriated.
Two thousand five hundred dollars is ap-
propriated to enable the Secretary of War
the National Cemetery at Arlington, Va,
and to place proper headstones on their
graves the bodies of about 12s Confederate
soldiers now buried in the National Sol
diers' Home District of Columbia, and
the bodies of about l36 Confederate SOL
diers now buried in the National Cemetery
at Arlington. Va.
The appropriation for Garfield Memorial
Hospital is increased as follows: For
50 ar,,l;
driveways, grading, and improving
grounds and introducing Potomac water
s., COO, to be expended under the direction
of the Commissioners of the District of
Columbia.
The sum of 500. 900 is appropriated for
the purchase, in the discretion of the Sec
rotary Of the Interior, Of not less than
140 acres of land adjoining the present
building site Of the Government Hospital
for the Insane. 1t is provided that If this
amount OF land cannot be purchased for
the amount named or for less sum, the
amount appropriated shall be applied to
the construction of buildings for special
classes of patients on the present grounds
of the hospital. 1t is also provided that
the subdivision of Pencote Heights. in
the District Of Columbia be revoked and
The salary for the Deputy Recorder of
Deeds for the District of Columbia is fixed
at $500 per anrum.
The sum OF 81 .34S.50 is appropriated for
special repairs to the court house in the
District Of Columbia, in accordance with
estimates Of the Architect of the Capitol,
TO be Immediately available.
The appropriation for fees of the United
States District Attorney for the District
Of Columbia is increased from $23 500 to
q a e.
shall pay to his assistants not
exceeding in all $4,000 per annum; also
his clerk and messenger hire not exceed
ing ST. 800, and for office rent, stationery,
ETC., not exceeding sl,40o per annum, out
Of the fees of his office.
Opposed 10 Cremntories
Mr.. Allen opposed the provisions in the
Items providing for crematories at the
Gulf and South Atlantic quarantine sta
tons and referred to these as cruel and
unusual methods of disposing OF the bodies
pf unfortunates. / want TO place my en-
phatic disapproval OF this legislation
raid he The items were allowed TO stand
Mr.. Allison offered an amendment pro-
viding so0,0Q9 for power for the pneumatic
tube service in New York, Boston, ami
as per present contract.
Mr. Butler opposed the amendment as
absurd and held that the postoffice bill
already carried too much.
Il alto hope that the House will vote
down the section appropriatipg s225, 900 for
the pneumatic tubes" said be. 1T is sim
ply robbery"
Mr.. Pettigrew also opposed the amend
nent and argued against paying cut mere
money.
Mr.. Allison withdrew the amendment.
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