Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-07
THE DISTRICT BILL
Appropriations Decided On
by Senate Committee.
THE INCREASES MADE
PROVISION IN REGARD TO AD-
vANCEs FROM TREASURY.
Amount Recommended is So, 1896, 900,
Being 81, ,645, ,435 More Than Was
Carried in House Measure.

trict of Columbia appropriation bill to the
Senate. The net increase In the bill recon-
mended by the committee on appropria-
tons over the amount Of the House bill is
81 ,645, ,435. The estimates for 1904 were SILL
005,6zS The bill as passed by the House
carried an aggregate Of appropriations of
81, 1904 Cos, and as reported to the Senate the
total amount Is So, 1896, 900. Exclusive of the
water department the amount Is $9,261 ,6S4.
As reported the bill is 81 ,6O9,53S less than
the estimates. The amount of the bill as re-
ported, exclusive of the water department.
which is paid from the revenues of that de-
partment, payable from the Treasury of the
United States Is 81, ,629, ,592. The total esti-
mated revenues :cf the District Of Columbia
exclusive of the water department is So 4OO,-
600. The amount appropriated in the Dis
trlct bill for the fiscal year ended June 80,
1903 was SS,5S6,0S9.
The, increase of appropriations provided
In the bill follow:
Increase.
Executive Office, $500; assessors Of
flee. $500; auditors office, $500; engi-
neer's office. $500; department of insur-
ance, 1920; surveyors Office, $1,000; Free
Public Library, $1,560; contingent and mis-
cellaneous expenses. District offices, $500;
running and marking boundary line, 81 500;
preparing card index of records of register
of wills, $500; printing permit books, etc.,
for permit clerks Office, $500; assessment
and permit work, $4,000; work on streets
and avenues as per schedules, 100000; paw
ing S street northwest, North Capitol to
Second streets, $14, 600; grading streets al
leys and roads. 5000; opening alleys, M5,-
O0O; condemnation of streets, roads and al
leys. Sl,0OO; construction of county roads,
SlFl,2oO; repairs of county roads, 10000;
Connecticut avenue bridge, $4,000; sewage
disposai system pumping station, s100,UJ0;
B street and New Jersey avenue trunk
sewer. 100000: outfall sewer and sphon,
sl3oOoo; sprinkling, sweeping and cleaning
streets, $4,000; electrical department, ex-
penses. 1880; gas and oil lighting, s13.70O;.
electric arc lighting, Sc, 800; slow sand fltra-
tlon plant, 100000; Washington aqueduct,
survey for new conduit, $1,000; Rock
Creek Park. improvement, etc, s17,5OO
public schools namely, officers $500: teach
ers, $4.7O0; care Of school buildings, SS24;
Twelve medical inspectors, $1,000; Manual
Training School expenses, s., GOO; contingent
expenses, furniture, etc., $4,000; buildings
salaries and expenses, $34. .720: house of de.
tent1on, $l,OO0; fire department. namely
salaries and expenses. $4,000; increase of,
$4,000; health department, namely salaries
ana expenses, $3.50; quarantine buildings,
$4,000; Police Court, namely, salaries and
expenses, 81 800; site for new building and
plans, $3s,OOO; justices of the peace, sala-
ries, s., 600; board of charities. $780, Hart
N.
namely. salaries and expenses, "a, ,O9S work
house for males. 100000; reform school.
salaries and expenses, S26.SOO; reform
school for r, girls building $4,000; National
temporary home for ex-Union soldiers and
sailors, 81 500; water department. 50. 900.
Total increase. 81 ,645, ,435. Total of bill as
reported. $9,396. $50.
Advances Provided For.
Advances from the national treasury to
meet deficiencies in the revenues of the Dis
trict of Columbia are provided for in the
following section inserted in the bill by the
Senate committee On appropriations:
''Sec. 3. That until and including June 80.
1904 the Secretary of the Treasury Is au-
thorized and directed to advance on the
reQuiSitiOn of the Commissioners Of the Dis
trict of Columbia, made in the manner now
prescribed by law, out of any moneys in
the treasury of the United States not other
wise appropriated, such sums as may be
necessary from time to time to meet the
general expenses of said District, as pro-
vided 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: Pro-
vided, that nothing contained herein shall
be so construed as to require the United
States to bear any part of the cost of street
extensions. and all advances heretofore or
hereafter made for this purpose by the
Secretary of the Treasury shall be repaid in
full from the revenues of the District of
Columbia: Provided,
'.rhat all advances made under this act
not reimbursed to the treasury of the
United States on or before June 80, 1904,
shall be reimbursed to said treasury from
time to time out of the surplus revenues of
the District of Columbia beginning July 1,
1904. together with interest thereon at the
rate of per centum per annum until so
reimbursed; and all advances heretofore
ma under TIE act of February IL. 1901.
and the act of July 1, 1902, and all other
acts making appropriations for the gov
ernment of the District CT Columbia shall
also be reimbursed from time to time out
of said surplus revenues: Provided, That
interest on advances made prior to June
go 1902, shall in the accounts of the Dis
trict of Columbia with the United States
be computed for the fiscal year 1903, and
if not reimbursed shall be stated then as
part of the principal sum and so charged
annually in said. accounts until reimbursed,
and the same rule Of computation shall ap-
ply to all advances made for the fiscal year
1904 and subsequent years, and said inter-
est shall be so charged annually hereafter.
The auditor for the State and other de-
partments and the auditor for the District
of Columbia shall each annually report the
amount of such advances, stating each fis-
cal year separately, and also the reimburse
ments made under this section, and the
balance due the United States, If any,.
The Hart School.
The following provision is made for the
Hart farm school:
The board of childrens guardians is
hereby directed to contract for the care and
maintenance of sixty wards of the board
at the Hart farm school. at the rate of $500
per annum each. and for this purpose the
sum of $12 900 is hereby appropriated. and
the Commissioners are required to report
to Congress at the first regular session of
the Fifty-eighth Congress a plan for the |
future care of the delinquent and dependent |
children in the District of Columbia.
The limit of the cost Of the Business |
High School Is increased from $175O00 to |
$265. 600, and the following allowances are
made:
increasing limit Of cost of eight-room |
school buildings in second and sixth divt- |
sions from 10000 to s65, 600 each.
For Takoma School, $4,000 instead Of !
500 00O.
For purchase OF lot adjoining the McKin- |
ley Manual Training School on the south.
S, COO
Toward the extension of the Mckinley
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