Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-17
Appropriation Bill Reported
by House Committee.
THE AMOUNT CARRIED
NEARLY A MILLION LESS THAN
FOR CURRENT YEAR.
Limitations Recommendation Un-
der the Different Municipal De-
partments Set Forth.

The District of Columbia appropriation
bill for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1904,
was completed today and ordered favorably
reported to the House by the appropria
tions committee. The bill carries 81 ,617 049,
exclusive of the water department., and is
made up from estimates aggregating S10-
S72, ,372. The amount carried by the bill is
sS45. .S74.97 less than the appropriation for
the current year and $126, 1897 less than
the bill carried when reported finally from
the House committee last year, at the
corresponding stage.
The amount recommended for the water
department, all of which Is payable from
the water revenues, is s132 2o6 being an in
crease of 5000 over the appropriations for
the water department for the current fiscal
year.
1t is estimated that the water revenues
available for the fiscal year 1904 will
amount to s402, 600; but 1t is provided in
the accompanying BILL as 1t was in the acts
for the current and eleven preceding fiscal
years, that any surplus of these revenues
over the appropriations made specifically
therefrom shall be applied to the work of
extending the high-service system of water
distribution. Under these indefinite appro-
priatons of the surplus water revenues
there has been expended to date for ex-
tending the high-service system Of water
distribution about S1,5OO0O The esti-
mated ultimate cost IS SS, S44, lSO.4I.
The total general revenues of the District
of Columbia for the fiscal year 1904, it is
estimated, will amount to s5,4OO,OOO.
The appropriations recommended in the ac-
companyfng bill and payable from the reve-
nues of the District amount to 81, SO9, ia so.
In addition to the foregoing sum appro-
pr1ations have already been passed by the
House in. the legislative, executive and ju-
sundry civil bill, chargeable next year to
the revenues of the District, aggregating
s9O,O43.
Advances From the Treasury.
Under the provisions Of section 3 of the
last District of Columbia appropriation act,
authorizing advances from the treasury of
the United States for the support Of the
government of the District of Columbia, it
is estimated by the Secretary Of the Treas
ury that advances will have been made by
June 30. 1908, amounting to 81 9O1, 725.15,
wnich advances, 1t is REQUIRED, shall be re-
iInbursed to the treasury from time to
time, out OF the surplus revenues Of the
District Of Columbia, beginning July 1.
1903, together with interest thereon at the
rate or per cent per annum until SO reim-
bursed, which reimbursement shall be ma de
Within three years from said last-r1amed
date. Assuming that at, least one-third of
the sum estimated-$1, ,901, ,72S. 15-together
whole debt, will be paid out of the revenues
OF the District during the fiscal year 1904.
the sum Of $671 .943 % will be required
By section II of the act Of February IL,
1901, as amended by the last District of CO.
lumbia appropriation act, highway bridge
Is required to be constructed within four
years from said date across the Potomac
river, above the site Of the present Long
bridge, at an authorized cost of 1896 600, Of
which sum $568,OO has been appropriated.
payable one-half out of the revenues of
the District of Columbia. Proposals are
about to be invited and contracts will soon
n ic
payment, probably, Of all Of the whole sum
which has been appropriated, or S2S4 600
out of the District revenues, before the
close of the fiscal year 1904.
Union Station and Municipal Building.
The act to provide for union railroad
station in the District of Columbia, now
pending in conference as amended by the
House, provides for expenditures aggregat-
ing at least S,11O,OO0, payable one-half or
81, $50, co., out Of the revenues of the Dis
trict, of which latter sum 500 900 is in
terms appropriated for each of the five
years beginning July 1, 1903. and the whole
amount, 1t is proposed, shall be payable
within the ensuing five fiscal years. thus
requiring provision, if not actual payment
therefor, by equal annual reservations out
OF the District revenues, amounting to $371-
coo.
For the municipal building authorized at
the last session Of Congress, there yet re-
mains to be appropriated equally from the
treasury and the District revenues the sum
of SS00,GOO, at least $3C0, 600 Of which or
S150Gd0 out of the District revenues will
be required during the fiscal year 1904, if
the work of constructing the building is to
be pressed with proper vigor and dispatch.
1t will thus be seen that obligations fixed
by law proposed in regular appropriation
bills other than the accompanying one, and
In other pending legislation practically sure
of enactment during this session against
the revenues of the District to be met or
provided for during the fiscal year 1904
aggregate 81, ,566. .3S6.23, which sum added
to the amount payable out of District reve-
nues by the terms of the accompanying
bill amounts to $5,376, 76O. 49, or well within
the total revenues Of the District, esti-
mated at So, 400, Coo.
Limitations.
( Limitations with reference to appropria-
tions made in the bill not heretofore i'm
posed, or changes in existing limitations,
are recommended as follows:
Hereafter the inspector Of gas and meters
and assistant inspector of gas and meters
of the District of Columbia shall be ap-
pointed by the Commissioners Of the Dis
Limitation with reference to horses, etc,
enacted last year is repeated, modified to
read as follows:
No part of the money appropriated by
this act shall be used fer the purchase,
livery or maintenance of horses or for the
purchase, maintenance repair of buggies
or carriages and harness, except pro-
vided for in the appropriation for contin-
gent and miscellaneous expenses, unless
the appropriation from which the same is
proposed to be paid shall specifically au-
thorize such purchase, livery, maintenance
and repair, and except also as herenbefore
authorized.
No part of the money appropriated by
this act shall be used for the payment of
premiums or other cost of fire insurance
Under the appropriation for paving
streets and avenues named in schedules re-
ferred to IL. the bill it is provided that
Streets and avenues named in said sched-
ules already paved with Belgian block or
granite shall not be paved or otherwise I'M
proved under this appropriation.
That in order to more fully carry out the
intent of the provision in the appropria-
tion act approved July 1. 1902 providing