The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-02
INCREASED BY THE SENATE
Amendments Reported to the Dis
frict Appropriation Bill.


Amendments Reported to the Dis
friet Appropriation Bill.
The Senate Committee on Apprcpria-
tions yesterday reported the District of
Columbia Appropriation bill. The meas
ure has been increased by 81 Cos, ,6S5 over
the House bill. The increases are as fol-
lows:
Executive Office, S1.lSO: Assessors Of
fee. $5.490; Collectors Office. $1,000; Aud
itors s office. $500; Attorneys office. $500
Surveyor Office, $2.5OO; miscellaneous
expenses, $500; work on streets and ave
nues, as per schedule, $50, 600; cleaning
and repairing sewers, $S,0UG, Arizona Ave
nue. sewer, $25,G00; sewage disposal sys-
TEN, pumping STATEN. 100000; low area
trunk sewer. $4,000; construction of
specific county roads, $40, 500; construct
ing sidewalk around Treasury Department
building $1,000; reDairs of county roads
and suburban streets, $4,000; cleaning
snow and ice. $500; Parking Commission,
81, $50; lighting by gas, etc., s12 600; cleo
trio are lighting, s. 0C0: night crew for
harbor boat $4,000; bridge across Rock
Greek on Connecticut Avenue, $50, eco;
school teachers salaries, S5. 400; jan
itors and care of buildings and grounds,
$3.50; replacing old boilers in school
buildings, $4,000; furniture for Manual
! Training School No l, $1,000; furniture
for Manual Training School No. ., $3.50;
furniture for Twining City School build
ing. SS25: contingent expenses, schools.
50, 200; foIr-room school building. Good
Hope, 5000; four-Foom school building,
Brookland 5000; four-room school build
ing Grant Road, SIC 600; four-room school
iui pafyv fa1 < r.
four-rGom school building Eighth Divis-
ion iadditonaD, 5000; four-room school
building. Kenilworth (additionau $S 00O;
Metropolitan police, S1,5C0; House of De-
tention, $1,000; Fire Department. salaries
$S,9cO; Fire Department, miscellaneous
I expenses. 80. 500: increase OF Fire Depart
ment, S2O0o0; Electrical Department
! $500; Health Department, S2l 800 Police
/ Court. $500: Rock Greek Park, S25 600;
| Board of Charities, 81 $40; Washington
Asylum, sl.2G0: Municipal Almshouse
s2I,5oO; Garfield and Providence Hos
pitals $1,000: Beard of Children's Guard
ians. sl.s00; Water Department. distri-
bution branch, $500. Total increase
81 ,C,27. 635 Decrease: Plans for II: .c.paI
/ Hospital, 81 600; four-room addition 10
Taylor School. $50 900; total reduction,
/ So, ,O00. Net increase. 81. .OG5. .635.
The following appropria lions are added
! to the bill:
For Blsgden Avenue, grading and mae
adamizing. $4,000; for Elm Street te-
/ tween Third and Fourth Streets north-
west, paving. $500; for Erie Street. be-
! tween Champlain Avenue and Eleventh
| street, grading and macadamizing 81 500;
| for Gale Street. Fifteenth Street to Sew
| enteenth Street northeast paving. So O0G.
for Pennsylvania Avenue. Anacostia River
10 Minnesota Avenue. grading and mac
! adamIzing, $4,000; for streets in Wood
! ridge subdivision, grading and macadam-
| iZing, $4,000: for Connecticut Avenue west
of Rock Greek, grading and macadamizing
100000; for Columbia Road west from
| Fourteenth Street, paving, s. 600; for Cal
| ifornia and Wyoming Avenues, Twenty
third Twenty fourth, and Streets. grad
ing and macadamizng, s., GOO; for Wis
consin Avenue, grading and improving.
! $4,000; for Thirty Street between
New Cut Road and TenleytOwn Road, and
adjacent streets in Burleith addition.
grading and macadamizng, 81, eco: Tor
Illinois Avenue, grading s. 600: Prori-
dence Street, grading and macadamizing.
$1,000; Nebraska Avenue, grading and
macadamizing, $3.5c0; Genesee Street he
tween Brightwood Avenue and Fourteenth
Street Road. grading 81 600
Under the head of general exneusrs fte
salaries OF two assistant secretaries 10 he
Commissioners are increased from 81 Off
to $1,000 each. and that Of the janitor OF
the District Building from $500 to 81 600
the number OF hremen in the Distrfrt
Building being increased from two IA
1 three.
Under the head Of the Assessors OMce
an assistant clerk for the arrears division
at a salary Of 400 is allowed ane an ss-
sistant cashier at 81. 400 is provided for
the Collectors Office. Six hundred dol
lars is given the Collector for extra labor
for preparation of tax sale certificates.
The chief clerk Of the Auditors Office has
had his salary raised from 81 500 to 81, POO
and in the Attorneys Office a stenOgra-
pher at $500 is provided for
An appropriation Of 81 800 is allowed far
the Surveyors Office to pay the exqcns es
of resuryey OF the Barry farm sub-df-
vision.
The sum Of $25, 900 Instead of S23. 500 is
allowed for contingent and miscellaneous
expenses.
\ provision is inserted in the bill in
connection with the appropriation for a
morgue, stipulating that the cost of the
morgue shall not exceed SIS 0O0 A pro-
vision is also inserted in connection with
the preparation of plans for a municiual
hospital providing that the limit of cost
OF that hospital building or buildings com
plete shall not exceed s250;0O0 and he
appropriation for the preparati tion OF plans
is reduced from s. 900 to 50 900.
The House bill appropriated S100, coo fol
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