Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-13
THE DISTRICT BILL
Reported to the Senate This
Afternoon.
HOUSE SUMS INCREASED
THE TOTAL APPROPRIATIONS
AMOUNT TO $e, ,e73.e7.
Provisions for Taxation Of Personal
Property and for an Advance
From the Treasury.
HOUSE SUMS INCREASED

| The Senate committee on appropriations
| today reported the District bill. AS report
ed the bill approprates s9,S4S,6 ,673.97. which
| is increase over the bill as passed by
the House of Representatives of 81 ,951 ,463.
| The Commissioners estima tes for 1903 were
s1O 7G7, ,497.9 the bill as reported, being
| $91S.S24 less than the estimates of the Com
| missioners. The amount of estimates as
approved by the Secretary of the Treasury
was $7,S26,O16 so that the bill as reported
| exceeds the treasury estimates by $2,O22,-
65797
The amount of the bill as reported lex
| elusive Of the water department which is
| paid from the revenues Of that departmenD
| payable from District revenues Is $780,
| 1880 The amount of the bill as reported
| Exclusive of the water departmenD paya-
| Bile from the Treasury of the United States
| is 81, ,s35 1898.
The committee estimates that the rev.
enues OF the District of Columbia for 1903
| exclusive of the water department. as
| stated in the book of estimates) is s., $780,
600.
The amount of estimated increased rev
enues under the personal taxation provis-
ions OF the bill and the triennial assess
ment of real estate is 81, ,7OO, 900. The total
estimate of the District revenues is s., $780,
600.
Increased py Comm1ttee.
The increases made by the Senate COM
mittee in the bill as it passed the House of
Representatives follow:
Executive office, 1,120; assessor S
office. 500; excise board, salaries and ex-
penses new, $500; collectors office
5000: auditors Office $3.50; sealer of
weights and measures office 500; engi-
neers office, $500; department of insurance
$o2oo; surveyors office, $1,000; Free Public
Library, $500: contingent expenses Dis
triet offices, 5000 rent of office for super
intendent of property (new), $3.50; COM
pleting work of reproducing will books,
office of register Of wills (new), s.. 500: pro-
tecting certain portraits (new) $3.50; fire.
proof file case and photographing maps,
| surveyors office new, $500; resurvey of
Beatty & Hawkins addition to George
town (new) 5000; fire-proof book shelves.
| 5000: assessment and permit work.
$4,000; work on certain specified streets.
$51, 800; opening alleys, &C. (out of District
| revenues) (Rew). $4,000; construction OF
survey of Anacostia river flats new, 5000:
reconstructing pier of Aqueduct bridge,
$65, goo; sewers, S347, 900; fencing James
Creek canal new, $1,000; sprinkting, sweep
snow and ice, $4,000; electrical department,
s9,450; gas lighting $4,000; electric arc
lighting, $1S,344; surveys for new conduit
from Great Falls (new), 5000; filtration
pldHl, leIClllS anu Improving res
ervoir grounds. s55.24O; Improvement OF
Rock Creek Park, s17,5O0. Total, 81, 4S6. 534.
Public schools, namely: Officers. 81 400:
teachers, $500; night schools, s4,5O0; kin
dergarten Instruction.. $5,000 medical in
spectors (new) $500; janitors. 81 ECO: re-
pairs and improvements to school buildings
5000: repairs to heating and ventilating
apparatus new, s12, 600; improving school
yards new, 5000; tools and machinery for
| manual training schools, 5000; purchase of
pianos for new school buildings new, 81
SEQ; text books and school supplies, 81 500;
four-room building for manual training
new), $4,000: Business High School, site
and plans, s7750O: reconstructing Henry
school new, SIG, 600; eight-room building in
second division new, s65,O00; purchase of
lot in rear of Western High School (new).
$1,000; purchase Of land for Giddings school
(new). 1894. Total. $254, ,S44
Metropolitan police, namely: Increased
force, $35, leo; contingent expenses 5000;
station house and stable in Southeast Wash
ington new, $4,000. Total, sTO1OO
Fire department, namely: Increased force
$3, 200; repairs to engine houses, 5000: re-
pairs to apparatus and for new appliances,
5000; rent new, $50; increase Of fire de-
Health department. $64OO; justices OF the
peace, salaries and expenses. 81, 600; clerk
of the Supreme Court OF the District, sal
ary, 5000; warden Of 1.-THE the Jail. salary, $3.50;
lum, $047; Reform School for Girls So. $50.
Freedmens Hospital. building plans new
5000; National Homeopathic Hospital
building (new), $25, 600; Central Dfspensarv
and Emergency Hospital, 81 ,45s: board OF
ch1ldren's guardians and Hart Farm School
lneD, $500; Industrial Home School. build
ing, 5000: water department, revenue and
inspection branch, 5000; salaries OF off3cars
and clerks of the board of personal tax an
praisers and expenses (new), SIS. .OOO-s7g-
055. Total increase, 81, ,951, ,463.
NO decreases in the items Of the bill as
passed by the House were made
Advance by the Government.
An amendment by the committee pro-
Vldes for an advance of money from the
United States treasury to meet any de-
fciency In the revenues Of the District. It
provides:
Sec. 2. That until and including June 1s,
lSo5' the Secretary of the Treasury is au-
tnorlZed ana directed to advance on the
requisitfon Of the Commissioners Of the
now prescribed by law, out of any moneys
In the treasury of the United States not
ceher"ise appropriated, such sums as NAV
be necessary from time to time to meet the
general expenses Of said District, as pro-
Vlded by Congress, and to reimburse the
treasury for the portion Of said advances
payable by the District of Columbia out of
the taxes and revenues collected for the
support Of the government thereof:
Provided, That nothing contained herein
snaH De SO construed as to REQUIRE the
United states to bear any part of the cost
OF street extensions, and all advances here
tofore or hereafter made for this purpose
by the Secretary Of the Treasury shall be
repaid In full from the revenues of the Dis
trict of Columbia:
Provided. That all advances made under
this act not reimbursed to the treasury of
the United States on or before June a0
1903. shall be reimbursed to said treasury
from time to time out Of the surplus rev
enues OF the District Of Columbia, begin
ming July I. 1903, together with interest
thereon at the rate Of per centum per an.
mum until so reimbursed
Taxation Of Real Estate.
In relation to the taxation Of real estate
1t is provided that hereafter all real estate
In the District of Columbia subject to taxa
tion. including improvements thereon, shall
be taxed IN per centum upon the assessed
valuation thereof, and whenever subdi-
vision of any portion of said real estate is
made and recorded with the surveyor of the
District, the board of assistant assessors
of said District are authorized and directed
to reassess the property SO subdivided, and
the tax on such reassessment shall be due