The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-14
FUNDS FOR THE DISTRICT
The Appropriation Bill Reported
to the House.
commissioners Estimates Cut Down
81 .2::s:s, 179-TotaI Amount Granted
I7,56I.9f-AuthOrity Given 10
DO Street Cleaning by Contract in
Case OF Certain Contingency.

Dill carries } ~ Z r5b--3t WHICH IL S.--cos
IT9 less than the estimates submitted by
the District Commissioners.
The appropriation is divided as follows:
SALARIES. $2SS ace; contingent and misceI-
laneous. $9I. $50: permanent system Of
highways payable wholly out of District
reyenues). $z.5G0: assessment and permit
work $40, coo: paving roadways under per
nit system, SO, coo: improvements and re
pairs. $1ll,000; sewers, $92, 700; streets,
$Sl4. 700; bridges. $119, eco; Washington
AqueGuct 1922. coo. increasing water sup
ply. completing aqueduct tunnel and How
ard University reservoir. sI62, 222-97; pub
lie schools. $l.6T0676i metropolitan police.
ST59,555; Fire Department, 1922. go; teIe-
graph and telephone service electrical de-
partmentD. $5I4TO: Health Department,
$50. so; courts, $37, GAO: interest ana sink
ing fund. LIS. 94797; general emergen-
cy fund, $S,0GC; Rock Greek Park, 81, 000'
courts and prisoners, $1G5, 500; charities
and correction, including medical attention,
ChIld-cariug institutions, temporary homes,
and miscellaneous. $6J2,63O; militia, 49,
10. grand total exclusive Of Water De-
partmenJ $7,6l6, G76g4; amount payable
from District revenues. s.. SU3. 26S.4T;
lAL4GlL4L dD1E HUN OLLltl S-aLGS 1 as
uray, s., SOS 1881; total, Water Depart
meut. SlS1,4S8; grand total. including Wa
ter Department. ST,I4T, 564S4-
sIr. CIRCUITS Report.
Mr. GroUt in his report, says:
The estimates Of tie Commissioners
Of The District Of Columbia exclusive Of
the Water Department. aggregate $Ssi8.
600 81. one-haf Of which amount excIu-
or Of such sum IS Congress may appro-
pirate. IS required TO be drawn from the
revenues OF the General Government and
the remaining one-half 10 be levied on
the taxable property and privileges in the
District Of Columbia other than the prop
erty Of the United States and the District
OF Columbia.
The total general revenues Of the Dis
tr.ct of Columbia for the fiscal year 1902.
il is estimated by the Commissioners. viii
amount to g Ssl S2e.SI or a surplus Of
So. z55.4e. aIJer meeting the apprCprla-
lions proposed by the accompanying Dill,
together with the obligations estimated
at SI1S.z15). imposed upon the District OF
OuE-naIf Of the expenses Of the National
ZooIogicaI Park. Of the court Of appeals,
and supreme court OF The District. OF me
Garfield and Providence hospitals, and Tor
the care and maintenance Of city parks
1t will be observed from the foregoing
statement that the whole expenses OF the
Government Of the District Of Columbia,
proposed 10 be provided for by the accom-
panying bill, together with those carried
in other regular appropriation bills, for
the fiscal year 1892 are we'll within the
estimated revenues of the District for
said year. the estimated revenues amount
ing to IS 991, S2S-S7, and the proposed ap-
preparations payable thereIr0m aggreGal-
ing S3.g57,563-47.
Limitations with reference 10 appro-
priati0ns made in the bill not heretofore
imposed, or changes in existing liinita-
tons. are recommended as follows:
The Commissioners Of the District OF
Columbia are hereby authorized and di-
rected 10 submit, in the annual estimates
for the fiscal years 1868. estimates for all
such clerks. overseers. inspectors, fore
men and other employees, other than day
laborers. who are employed under authori-
y OF and paid from general appropria-
~tions 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
prepared In the Office OF the Secretary Of
the Board at the close of each session Of
Congress. may sell the surplus volumes
at a rate per volume 10 be fixed by them
approXimating but act less than the pro
rata cost Of compilation. and deposit all
money 50 received 10 the credit OF the ap-
preparation out Of which such cost is
paid.
The Commissioners Of the District of
Columbia are hereby authorized 10 change
and adjust the line OF Cincinnati Street in
the vicinity Of Connecticut Avenue, and of
W4rder Avenue in the vicinity Of Bock
Creek Church Read upon plans approved
by them. Provided. That no expense is
incurred thereby 70 the United States or
the District of Columbia.
That Oue-half Of the sum of ,G0J ap-
DrOEriaIed by the joint resolution making
an emergency appropriation for the repair
Of certain roads and bridges IN the Dis
trict of Columbia. approved June :, 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
nissioners in cleaning streets, the follow
ing.
Regarding Street Cleaning.
THAT whenever It 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
specihcat ioEs under which the same was
last advertised for bids, il shall at once
be their duty TO advertise TO let said work
under said Specifications to the lowest re
spousible bidder. and if the same cannot
be procured TO be done at . price not ex-
ceediug % cents per thousand square
yards, they may continue 10 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-
ditiouaI labOrer, $3.50; an additional In
spector Of buildings. 81. zoe; an additional
civil engineer, $1,000, and one clerk. $500.
Assessors OGce-An additional clerk at
81 0GO and one messenger, $500,
Attorneys Ofice-An additional Assist
ant Attorney 81 500.
Market Masters Ofice-An additional
! assistant sealer OF weights and measures,
$500.
Engineers omce-one index clerk and
typewriter. $720.
Free Public Library-One additional as
sistant at $500; cataioguer, S720; stenog-
rapher and typewriter, $500; one attend
ant at $3.50, one at $500, one messenger. At
$3.50: appropriation for purchase of books
increased to $1,000 and for binding to
8, 500.
For a new morgue, to be erected on the
water front between the north line of