Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-01-14
Appropriation Carried by the Measure,
$7,6l6,O76.94,
LESS THAN COMMISSIONERS ESTIMATE
Increase of $172,848 63 Over
Current Appropriation.
THE CHANGES IN DETAIL

The District of Columbia appropriation
bill for the fiscal year 1902 was reported to
the House today. The report says:
1.-The estimates of the Commissioners of
the District of Columbia, upon which the
bill is based, exclusive of the water depart
| ment, aggregate ss.94s, ,965.94. one-half of
which amount exclusive of expenses under
the highway act, or of such sum as Con-
gress may appropriate, is required to be
drawn from the revenues of the general
government and the remaining one-half to
| be levied upon the taxable property and
privileges in the District of Columbia other
| than the property Of the United States and
the District of Columbia, pursuant to Sec
ton 3 of the act approved June II, 1878, en-
titled AN act providing a permanent form
of government for the District of Column
| bia''
''The total amount recommended to be
appropriated for the general expenses of
the District of Columbia for the fiscal year
1902 in the bill submitted herewith is, eX-
elusive of the water department, $3.50
O76.94, of which sum the general govern
ment is required to pay 81, sos, 7SS.47, that
being one-haif of the whole, exclusive of
| the amount (2,500) recommended for eX-
penses under the highway act The first
named sum is 81 80, $50 less than the esti-
mates submitted by the Commissioners.
1.-The amount appropriated for the general
expenses of the District of Columbia for
the current fiscal year 09O1) is 81 ,443 223. 81
| or $172, ,S4S63 less than is recommended in
| the accompanying bill for 1902
For the Water Department..
1.-The amount recommended for the water
| department, all Of which is payable from
| the water revenues is $131, ,4SS being re-
duction of S2,653 under the appropriations
| for the water department for the current
| fiscal year.
ut is estimated that the water revenues
available for the fiscal year 1902 will
amount to $3G5, 800; but it is provided in the
accompanying bill, as it was in the acts for
| the current and nine preceding fiscal years,
| that any surplus of these revenues over the
appropriations made specifically therefrom
shall be applied to the work of extending
the high-service system of water distribu-
ton. Under these indefinite appropriate
of the surplus water revenues there has
been expended up to December 81, 1900, for
extending the hgh-service system of water
distribution, the sum of $1,032 ,422. 10.
The total general revenues OF ene District
of Columbia for the fiscal year 1902, it is
estimated by the Commissioners, will
| amount to 1891 s29.S7, or surplus of $24.-
2j6 40 after meeting the appropriations pro-
posed by the accompanying bill. together
with the obligations ESTIMATED at $13S,215)
imposed upon the District of one-half of the
expenses of the National Geological Park,
of the Court of Appeals and Supreme Court
the ddFHelQ ana 1rOVl-
dence Hospitals, and for the care and MAIN
tenance of city parks.
1T will be observed from the foregoing
statement that the whole expenses of the
proposed to be provided for by the accom-
panying bill, together with those carried
in other regular appropriation bills, for the
fiscal year 1902, are we'll within the esti-
mated revenues of the District for said
year, the estimated revenues amounting to
81, ,991 ,s23.S7, and the proposed appropria-
tions payable therefrom aggregating S3,967.
56347.
Limitations.
Limitations with reference to aprTvpria-
tions made in the bill not heretofore i'm
| posed, or changes in existing limitations.
| are recommended as follows:
''The Commissioners Of the District of
Columbia are hereby authorized and direct
ed to submit, in the annual estimates for
the fiscal year 1903 estimates for all such
clerks, oVerseers inspectors, foremen and
other employees, other than day laborers
who are employed under authority of and
paid from general appropriations and are
engaged upon regular and continuous work,
and whose services will be required during
said fiscal year, indicating in the case of
| every such employment the rate of compen-
sation received and the appropriation from
which paid.
Heretofore the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia, after supplying each
of the heads of the several departments
| and offices Of the government and the ju-
| dietary Of said District with the necessary
copies of the bound editions Of the laws
affecting said District, which are prepared
in the Office of the secretary Of the board
at the close Of each session of Congress
may sell the surplus volumes at rate per
volume to be fixed by them, approximatine
but not less than the pro rata cost Of COM
pilation, and deposit all money so received
to the credit Of the appropriation out of
which such cost is paid.
THE Commissioners of the District of
Columbia are hereby authorized to change
and adjust the line Of Cincinnati street in
the vicinity Of Connecticut avenue, and OF
Warder avenue in the vicinity of Rock
Creek Church road, upon plans approved by
them; provided, that no expense Is incurred
thereby to the United States or the Dis
| trict of Columbia.
THAT one-half of the sum Of SO 600 an
| propriated by the joint resolution making
| an emergency appropriation for the repair
| of certain roads and bridges in the District
| of Columbia. approved June Z, 19OO shall
be charged to the revenues of the District
Of Columbia.
I'm connection with the appropriation for
work done under direction of the Commits
sioners in cleaning streets, the following:
THAT whenever it shall appear to the
Commissioners that said latter work can
| not be done under their immediate direc-
| ton at 1S cents or less per thousand square
yards, in accordance with the specifca-
| tions under which the same was last ad-
vertised for bids. it shall at once be their
duty to advertise to let said work under
said specifications to the lowest respon-
sible bidder, and If the same cannot be
procured to be done at a price not exceed
| ing 20 cents per thousand yards, they may
continue to do said work under their i'm
mediate direction in accordance with said
| specifications"
Comparative Statement.
The following comparative statement
shows in detail the amounts appropriated
| for the current fiscal year, and the amounts
| recommended in the accompanying bill:
| Appropriations Recommend
for 1901. ed for 1902
Salaries:
Executive office. ...... $6o, ,293OO So, ,5ss. .0O
Assessors office. 35. 10000 81 10000
Collectors office. ..... 100000 1900 OG
Auditors office. ..... 2f.1OOOO p 100 OC
Attorneys Office. 9,OOOOO 1O6OO OO
Sinking fund Office. 2.5OOOO 2 SOC. .OO
CorOners office. 10000 18O0. 0G