The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-15
BELOW THE ESTIMATES.
The District Appropriation Bill Re
ported TO the House.

tions Committee of the House for the past
ten days, was completed yesterday and
reported to the House By Representative
Grout, Chairman of the subcommittee
having the bill in charge. 1t is Mr..
CIRCUITS purpose to call the bill up just
as soon as the River and Harbor bill is
disposed of. The bill as reported carries
S7,74I, 56i.94, which is S1,233, 1884 less
than the estimates submitted by the Dis
trict Commissioners.
The appropriation is divided as follows:
Salaries, $2SS,40c: contingent and miscel-
laneous, S91,S50; permanent system of
highways payable wholly out of District
reyenues), $500: assessment and permit
work, $4,000; paving roadways under per-
nit system. $4,000; improvements and re-
pairs, $111,000; sewers, s92, 700; streets,
SSl4,7O0; bridges. $4,000; Washington
Aqueduct, $500. COO; increasing water sup
ply, completing aqueduct tunnel and How
ard University reservoir, S162, 222.97; pub
lie schools, s1,67O.S76; metropolitan police.
s739,565; Fire Department, 1922 ,020; tele-
graph and telephone service electrical de-
partmenD, $5l,470; Health Department,
S60520; courts, $37, e40; interest and sink
ing fund, s1,I3. 947.97; general emergen-
cy fund, $4,000; Rock Creek Park, $25 GOO;
courts and prisoners. s105,960; charities
and correction, including medical attention,
child-caring institutions, temporary homes,
and miscellaneous, 1872 $50; mil ia, $751;
175; grand total, exclusive of Water De-
partment, S7,G1s, 1854; amount payable
from District revenues, s3,S09. 2sS.f;
amount payable from United States Treas
uray, S3,S06, 7sS47 total, Water Depart
ment. S131, 4SS; grand total, including Wa
ter Department. s7,747. 564.94.
Mr.. Grout, in his report, says:
THE estimates of the Commissioners
OF the District of Columbia, exclusive Of
the Water Department, aggregate SS,9iS,
965.94 one-half of which amount, exclu-
sive of expenses under the highway act,
or of such sum as Congress may appro-
pirate, is required to be drawn from the
revenues of the General Government and
the remaining one-half to be levied on
the taxable property and privileges in the
District of Columbia ether than the prop
erty of the United States and the District
of Columbia.
THE total general revenues of the Dis
trict of Columbia for the fiscal year 1902.
it is estimated by the Commissioners, will
amount TO 1891, S29.S7. or a surplus of
S24 265.40 after meeting the appropria-
lions proposed by the accompanying bill,
together with the obligations ESTIMATED
at ,275), imposed upon the District of
half of the expenses OF the National
Geological Park, of the court of appeals,
and supreme court of the District, of the
Garfield and Providence hospitals, and for
the care and maintenance of city parks.
Limitations with reference to appro-
priations made in the bill not heretofore
Imposed, or changes in existing limta-
lions, are recommended as follows:
"The Commissioners Of the District of
Columbia are hereby authorized and di-
rected to submit, in the annual estimates
for the fiscal years 1903. estimates for all
such clerks. overseers. inspectors, fore
men, and other employees. other than day
laborers, who are employed under authori-
ty of and paid from general appropria-
lions and are engaged upon regular and
continuous work, and whose services will
be required during said fiscal year, indi
eating in the case of every such employ
ment the rate OF compensation received
and the appropriation from which paid.
Hereafter the Commissioners OF the
District of Columbia, after supplying each
of the heads Of the several departments
and officers of the Government and the
judiciary of said District with the nee
essary copies OF the bound editions of the
laws affecting said District, which are
the Board at the close OF each session of
Congress, may sell the surplus volumes
at rate per volume TO be fixed by them,
approximating but not less than the pro
rata cost of compilation, and deposit all
money so received to the credit of the ap-
preparation 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 District of Columbia.
That one-half OF the sum of $4,000 ap-
propriated by the joint resolution making
an emergency appropriation for the repair
of certain roads and bridges in the Dis
trict of Columbia, approved June Z, 1900,
shall be charged to the revenues of the
District of Columbia
In connection with the appropriation
for work done under direction of the Com
missioners in cleaning streets, the follow
ing:
THAT whenever 1t shall appear to the
Commissioners that said latter work can
not be done under their immediate direc-
ton at IS cents or less per thousand
square yards, in accordance with the
specifications under which the same was
last advertised for bids, it shall at once
be their duty to advertise to let said work
under said Specifications to the lowest re-
sponsible bidder, and if the same cannot
be procured to be done at price not ex-
ceedng 20 cents per thousand square
yards, they may continue to do said work
under their immediate direction in accord
ance with said specifications"
Among other items in the bill are the
following: In the executive office an ad-
ditional laborer $3.50; an additional in
spector of buildings. $1,000; an additional
civil engineer. 81 SEQ and one clerk. $500.
Assessors oGice-An additional clerk at
81 600 and one messenger. 5000
Attorneys Ofiics-An additional Assist
ant Attorney, $1,000.
Market Masters Chice-An additional
assistant sealer of weights and measures.
$500.
Engineers cHce-One index clerk and
typewriter. $720
Free Public Library-One additional as
sistant at $500: cataloguer, $T20; stenoS-
rapher and typewriter. $500; enc attend
ant at $3.50. one at $500, one messenger at
$500: appropriation for purchase of books
increased TO $1,000 and for binding to
81. 500.
For a new morgue to be erected en- the
water front, between the north line of
NJ Street and the south side of n Street,
SIS. GOO.
For plans for Municipal Hospital. s. 600
The appropriation for the extension Of
the Boundary sewer to the vicinity of
Twenty second and \ Streets northeast is
increased SIS. eco.
An increase OF $4,000 is made in the ap-
preparation for the construction of a |