The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-15
MONEY TO Pay DEFICITS
The General Deficiency Bill Pissed
by the House.
Uhe Amount Appropriated for the
District of Columbia S55.s0s-The
81 S3g,O21-Debate Takes Wide
Range, Not Being mt All Confined.

The General Deficiency bill making ap-
preparations to supply deficiencies in the
appropriations for the fiscal year 1900 and
for prior years. introduced in and
passed by the House yesterday. The bill
CARRIES total of So, $780, 21, divided as fol-
lows:
Department of State SS6Si5; Treasury
Department. s62S, $50; Fish Commission,
sii $50; District of Columbia, s55, 797; War
Department. s9s.471; Navy Department.
SlS4.322; Interior Department. $50. 1853; De-
partment of Justice. sSS.l56; United States
Courts. sl09.6e5; Fostofiice Department.
sla,I72; out of postal revenues. sf.S'S,97i;
House of Representatives, S199.S54; index
TO Government publications, $1,000; Gov
eminent Printing Office, $1,000: judgments
Indian depreciation claims s267,655; juds-
meBts. United States Courts, S25,352:
Judgment. Court of Claims, S94, sos; sec
ton 3 audited claims, Sl3i,s0S.
The follow limitations not heretofore i'm
posed in the matter of adjusting and set
Ting accounts are provided:
The accounting officers of the Treasury
are authorized and directed to allow and
credit in the account of Lieut.. Col. VIII
liam A Jones. u. S. A., engineer of he
Fifth lighthouse district. for the quarter
ending March 81. 1899. sl,921, paid by him
from the appropriation Repairs, and SO
forth. of lighthouses" 1892 for repairs
under the instruction of the Lighthouse
Board and by the authority OF the Treas
ury Department. the same not to involve
the further payment of money from the
Treasury.
The Secretary of the Smithsonian In
stitution is authorized to reimburse in
the amount of s207.73, from the appropria-
ton National Geological Park, 1907 the
official account Of John W. Morse. Assist
ant Paynaster, U. S. N. for expenditures
incurred in the purchase. care. and for
warding of collection Of live animals for
the National Geological Park during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1899
Credit in accounts of certain officers,
Corps of Engineers: Authority is granted
to the proper accounting officers of the
Treasury to allow and credit in the &C.
counts Of certain officers of the Corps OF
Engineers of the United States Army
amounts standing against them en- the
books Of the Treasury as follows: Captain
william E. Craighill. $685.; Capt. c. H
McKinstry. s45: Major Charles W. Ray
mond. s61.4S; Major Thomas l. Casey,
s2l.S2: Major H. NJ. Adams. s2.6l0.4o;
Major E. H. Ruffner, $4,000; Major R. L.
s3192. and Lieut.. Col. W. A. Jones, s2Ss.51;
in all. 3,166.40
Adjustment Of accounts of Major ]. B.
Bellinger: On account Of duties resulting
from the war with Spain, the time pre-
scribcd by law, act Of July 81, 1894, for
the settlement OF his accounts having ex-
pired, the accounting officer Of the Treas
ury are authorized to reopen, adjust, and
settle the accounts OF Capt. ]. B. Bel
VI Of or N
States Army, lately disbursing officer of
the Military Academy at West Point n.
T., involving appropriations for the fiscal
years 1895. 1896, 1897, on the principles OF
equity and justice, and to give credit for
suoh disbursements as shall be shown to
have been actually and honestly made III
good faith and have accrued to the benefit
OF the Government: Provided. That the to-
tai credits allowed under the provisions
OF this act shall not be more than s1l,-
60s72 for the fiscal year 1895; 2.22S. 09
for the fiscal year 1896, and $11 ,055. 81 for
the fiscal year 1897.
That appropriations made for the fiscal
6eaf 1900, or that may hereafter be made.
for the construction of buildings at any one
Of the branches of the National Home for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, shall continue
available until expended.
The accounting officers Of the Treasury
counts Of Edward McCauley, disbursing
clerk OF the Census Office, the sum of $11.
being the amount paid by him for two di-
Sectories Of the city of Washington. Dis
erict OF Columbia. and one manual Of the
State Of Kentucky.
That SO much of section six of the act
approved May 26. 1886. as provides that the
salaries paid to United States district at
torneys shall cover and include compensa-
fion for services rendered by them In the
circuit courts Of appeals is made applicable
to the United States district attorneys for
the southern district of New York
5 Local Items.
The deficiencies provided for under the
bead Of the District of Columbia are:
Coroner's ONCE, $50.
For general advertising. 1889. s772.12:
1897, 1850.
Judicial expenses. 1893. $25; 1897, 81.
Free Public Library, s27.9S.
The Crawford Paving Company, s913.n.
Sewers. S37s.52.
Public Schools-Fuel. 5000; textbooks.
Observation-Disclosures