Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-16
Appropriations Recommend
ed by the Senate Committee.
S3,030,947 INCREASE
A NEW BUILDING FOR THE MA
TIONAL MUSEUM.
Memorial Bridge Included and Author
ity Given to Begin Work
Upon It.

Senator Allison this afternoon reported
the sundry civil appropriation bill to the
Senate from the committee on appropria-
tons AS reported the bill contains total
increases of $3O3O,3 47 40, the net increase
by the committee over the bill as it was
passed by the House being S2907. 247 40.
The bill as reported to the Senate contains
an aggregate of appropriations amounting
to So, rs, 04313.
The total estimates on which the bill was
founded amounted to SCI, 779 1892. The
changes made in the bill by the Senate
committee from the measure as it was
passed by the House of Representa- fol-
low:
Increase.
Public buildings, 1887 800; light houses,
beacons and fog signals, S752, 600; revenue
cutter at Philadelphia. $4,000; engraving
and printing. $26s3S6 international ex-
changes, $1,000; National Museum. 500 600;
National Geological Park, $4,000; fish COM
mission. $500; mint at San Francisco. new
machinery and appliances. 100000; Senate
library, steel shelving. 50. $50; Casa Grande
ruin, repair Of $4,000; geological survey, eX
penses. $106100; Yellowstone National Park
surveys (neO. $500: Howard University,
maintenance, $1,000; armories and arsenals,
S104.30O.
Washington, $1,000; Grant memorial. $50
coo; Executive Mansion, extraordinary re-
pairs: 10000; road to Springfield, Mo, Ma
tional cemetery, S2O,a34; military posts
5000 road between Aqueduct bridge and
Fort Myer. $500; road on Fort Sheridan
Illinois. 5000: Governors Island, n Y, en-
largement, etc, $260.0OO; memorial bridge
across the Potomac river, 100000; Apache
prisoners at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, establish
ment. 5000: National Home for Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers, 10000; defending suits
in claims against the United States 5000:
territory of Alaska, expenses of judges and
clerks, $1,000; United States courts regular
assistants to United States district attor-
neys. $1,000: rent of rooms for courts
in northern district of Georgia, 5000;
support of United States prisoners SO, $50:
boundary line between United States and
Dominion of Canada along 10th parallel.
$lUo,Wo; monuments on boundary line be-
tween United States and Mexico, repair of.
5000; Senate, expenses, s2,217.4o: busts of
the late Senators Morrill, and Voorhees,,
5000; public printing and binding, 500. 900;
making total increase of s3,030,?47. 40
Decrease.
Gowanus bay, n. ". improving channel
10000: New York harbor, Ambrose chan
mel Improvement $50, 900; Shiloh National
Military park, $1,000; Gettysburg National
park. $1,000; Eicksburg National Military
park, 5000; Mission Indians, Cal, counsel
for $500. The net increase is s2906,2 47 40
The amount of bill reported to the Sem
ate, So, 1903 IL. Total estimates $751; 49,
i3S -.
National Museum Building.
The bill as reported to the Senate provides
for the preparation under the direction of
the secretary of the Smithsonian Institu-
ton of preliminary plans for an additional
fieproof building to cost not exceeding S.
100000 for the United States National Mu-
SaIIn to he. tod
on the mall between 9th and 18th streets
west. including the expense of including
necessary data. the plans when completed
TO be transmitted by the secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution to Congress at it's
next regular session. For the preparation
of these plans 5000 is appropriated to be
Immediately available.
For the Grant memorial $4,000 is APP
proprlated and the contract is authorized
for $4,000 for the completion of the me-
mortal
For the Memorial bridge 500 600 IS ap-
propriated and the limit Of cost is fixed at
$2.5Go.oOO. Authority is given to proceed
with the work of erecting the bridge
Other Appropriations.
| The elephant at the zoo is to be provided
with new house. for which the bill APP
propriates $4,000. The amendment. as Of
fered in the Senate, carried an appropriation
Of $4,000. but this amount was cut down.
Under the head of the bureau of engrav-
| ing and printing the allowance for labor
| and the expenses Of engraving and print
! ing. the appropriation for salaries for
necessary clerks and employees is increa sed
| from 100000 to s96s, 1856 For engravers'
! and printers materials and other mater
| iais. except distinctive paper, and for mis-
| cellaneous expenses, $4J00O0 instead of
| $3.50 400 is allowed
The National Museum is given SO coo in
! stead of $4,000 for cases, furniture, fix
lures and appliances required for the ex-
| hibiton and safekeeping Of the collections
! of the National Museum.
| For steel shelving for the Senate library
| 80. 40 is appropriated.
| The salary of the chief disbursng clerk
| in the office of the director of the geological
| survey is increased from 50, 400 to $500
and the amount for the pay of skilled la