Evening star., 1901-02-19
DEFICIENCY BILL
It Was Reported to the House
Today.
MANY ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST
Sums for Different Branches of
the District Government.
TOTAL AMOUNT CARRIED


of S2I.35O,0O0 reappropriated for expenses
of the military establishment, aggregates
S12 5O3, 1880, distributd as follows:
Executive office. $1,000; State Depart
ment, $685. 665O2; Treasury Department,
So 2I6, ,S7292; Smithsonian Institution,
s4761; District of Columbia, s134. .S91 70;
War Department, $40 73; military estab-
lishment exclusive of $21, 100000 reappro-
priated), So25 Oe263 Military Academy.
$50, ,641 %; National Home for Disabled Vol
unteer Soldiers, SIS, ,567 .O6; state and terri
torial homes $333S0.59; naval establish
ment, $3,973, 1870; Interior Department,
S54S O032S; Post Office Department, $24,-
422 96; postal service, 81, 414,5 ,556.15; Depart
ment of Justice, s25329 Sc; United States
courts $5O3, ,14O72; House of Representa-
tives, $SS 206.S7; printing and binding, Ss5l'-
$50; judgments, United S.a.es coui.s, s<,-
2T.1O; judgments, Indian oepredaloli :
claims, So 2211; judgments, court of Claims
SAC 574.79; section 2, audited claims, $65'-
III so. Total, $12, sos. .42930.
A legislative provision of the bill extends
the firemen pension fund to the wldo" OF
Fireman keefe.
The following appropriations of local In
terest are among the provisions of the Dill
For special repairs to the treasury build
ing. namely: For new plumbing q lo1ls. noo
rooms and expenses incident thereto, 5000
Office of the auditor for the Post once
Department: For fifteen temporary clerks
during the remainder of the fiscal year
1901. at the rate of SI2o per annum each'
$500.
District of Columbia.
Coroner's office: To pay the deputy coro-
ner for services during the absence of the
coroner, 81 5a
For surveyors office: For such employees
as may be required in accordance with the
provisions of the act of Congress making
the surveyor of the District of Columbia a
salaried officer. $1,000
Contingent and miscellaneous expenses:
For general advertising. authorized ana re-
quired by law, and for tax and school
notices of changes in regulations, $3.50 9S
To enable the Commissioners to purchase
the entire collection Of maps, ned nOtes'
records and other surveying data OF the
late II. w. Brewer, formerly surveyor OF
Georgetown, $4,000.
The sum of s154. paid Kennedy & Shaefer
for plumbing, from the appropriation "Spe-
cal repairs to market houses, hscal year
1901, is allowed.
To pay in full the claim for damages OF
Edward Lander, S461.
Streets: For amount required for disposal
of city refuse, $4,000.
Sewers: For amount required to pay in
full the award of damages for right of way
for Rock Creek and B street fntercepting
sewer for fiscal year 1896, S34o.
Public schools: Fuel. $1,000; heating ap-
paratus. $4,000; contingent toe expenses 2p f Sl.
500: to pay 7; J., omsee, s9ne eo s99''o' 1or pur-
Metropolitan police: Contingent ex-
penseS, $4616.o4.
Fire department: For contingent ex-
penses for the fiscal year 1901, 2oOo; Tor
the fiscal year 1SOO, SSo4.lZ' Iof forage,
SO, 500.
The provisions contained in the act of
Congress approved June IL, 1896, relating
to the fremens relief fund, may Wlthln
81, CO., ,y,ais CT
District of Columbia, be extended to and
used for the relief of any fireman, or his
family. although he may not heretofore, or
hereafter. have served twelve months.
Telegraph service, 81 14lS.13.
Health department: For maintaining the
disinfecting service. $1,000: for amount re-
ouired for preventing the spread of contag-
ious diseases, to be available until eXpend-
ed, S15, 900.
Support Of prisoners: For expenses for
maintenance of the jail of the District of
Columbia and for support of prisoners
therein. to be expended under the direction
of the Attorney General, S2,oo'
Courts: For witness lees hsIai seoi
1898. S3.75.
Judements-For payment of the judg-
ments including costs, against the Dlstrlct
of Columbia, s21 ,503SO, together with Iur-
ther sum to pay the interest on said 1udg-
ments as provided by law, from the date
the same became due until the date OF
payment. IT,, safora;,o
Defending suits In clalmS-f OF usieiuhis
suits In the United States court OF claims,
81, 900. ,,,a -
Writs of lunacy-For amount required TO
nav the clerk Of the Supreme Court OF the
district Of Columbia fees In lunacy cases.
For witness fees for the fiscal years as
follows: For fiscal year 1901, 5000; for
fiscal year 1900, 81 800; for fiscal year $780,
$40 .,.
Washington asylum-For contingent ex-
for fiscal 19Oo S4l.SO
Freedmen's Hospital and asylum-For
contingent expenses Tor hscal year i'o''
$75405.
house. fiscal year 1890; $+0.76.
Board of chldreSls guardians-For board
of children's guardians for the fiscal year
1901 and authority to pay from this
amount 81 900. or much as may be nee
essary. to the House of the Good Shepherd
for colored girls, at Baltimore ana $loo or
so much thereof as may De necessary TO
the Saint Rose Industrial school, District
of Columbia, for the maintenance of wards
of the board, is hereby granted S4,SJo Tor
amount required for the fiscal year I9o"
$50. 16 w.
amount required to pay the jury, in con-
demnation proceedings, for the widening OF
Columbia road and 10th street, to be paid
wholly out of the revenues OF the Dlstrict
of Columbia S725 Except as otherwise
nrovided. one-half of the foregoing amounts
to meet deficiencies in the appropriations
ON account of the District of Columbia
shall be paid from the revenues of the Dis
trict of Columbia and one-half from any
money in the treasury not otherwise ap-
propriated.
Government Hospital for the Insane.
For current expenses of the Government
Hospital for the Insane, 100000.
For repairs and improvements, to meet
unexpected and extraordinary repairs, S13,-
800
To complete the construction Of q rail-
road switch to the boiler house of the hos
pital including a siding 500 feet long. and
grading and foundation for coal shed,
5000.
For furnishing the new addition to the
Hooe building, occupied by the United
States geological survey. for which the sum
of 50 600 additional rent was provided for
in the sundry civil act approved June g.
1900. $4,000.
Post Office Department..
For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting
and power plant, $4,000.
For labor and material necessary for the
modification of the windows in the Post
Office Department building, $11, 300.
! For the purchase OF four revolving doors