Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-21
GENERAL DEFICIENCY
Last Of Appropriation Bills
Reported Today.
ITEMS IN MEASURE
ALL THE GOVERNMENT DEPART
MENTS REPRESENTED.
Those Referring to the District, Which
Are Of Particular Local
Interest. s
ITEMS IN MEASURE

The general deficiency appropriation bin,
the last of the annual appropriation bills.
was reported to the House today by Chair
man Cannon of the House committee on ap-
propriations The bill carries a total of
s13, ,691 1856 80. Of which s45,511. IS is for the
District Of Columbia.
The items of the bill are as follows: Ex-
ecutive Office. So, 20S. CO.. State Department,
S151 1861 Treasury Department, s5.172,-
81Ss5; interstate commerce commission.
$4,000; District of Columbia. S45 81. IS:
War Department. s24. .42O; military estab-
lishment. $479.O46.96; National Soldiers
Home, s174,O75.ss: Navy Department,
81. .731, 1852; Interior Department,
$524, ,5OS.35; Post Office Department.
$16,274S7: postal service, $1,17S, ,S22 %:
Department of Agriculture, $4,000;
Department Of Justice, $685. ,556.36; Court OF
Claims building, S515.0e; House of Repre-
sentatives, $121 92667; Library of Congress.
$1OOO0.OO; Botanic Garden, 81 10000; print
ing and binding, $413, $4,000; Spanish treaty
claims commission, expenses, $6,I50.O0;
Spanish treaty claims commission, award,
100000: judgments, Court of Claims, $4b,-
964.O6; judgments, United States courts,
$6.026.55: judgments. Indian depredations,
trict of Columbia, $232. .122. .04; section 2, au-
dited accounts, s24S 4376 81; section 3. au-
dited state claims, 81 ,O1O, 1874. 10; section 4,
audited accounts. $26,074.1S.
District Of Columbia.
The District Of Columbia items in the bill
include the following:
To pay the deputy coroner for services
during the absence Of the coroner, for the
fiscal years as follows: Fiscal year 1902,
$50; fiscal year 1908. $12O.
Authority is granted the Com missionera
to use $500, in addition to the 81 600 hereto
fore authorized, for the hire of temporary
clerks from contingent expenses OF the per-
sonal tax board.
For rent of Office rooms occupied by the
superintendent of property, fiscal year 1002,
For contingent expenses required for the
Office of the superintendent of Insurance.,
including rent, furniture, stationery, print
ing, books, law books, books Of reference
and periodicals and other general necessary
expenses of his office, fiscal year 1907.
$128.95: for general advertising. fiscal year
1902, $74S.67.
For judicial expenses, including procure-
ment Of chains Of title. the printing Of
trict Of Columbia, and witness fees in Dis.
trict cases before the Supreme Court Of
said District, for the fiscal years as fol-
lows: For the fiscal year 1903. 500; for the
fiscal year 1902. $190.28.
lunbia are authorized to allow W. c. Dodge
s25 for services as expert witness in 1891,
to be paid from the appropriation for ju-
dicial expenses. fiscal year 1903. ~4
For amount required for the care, opera
ton maintenance and repair of the bathing
beach, fiscal year 1902, $3657.
For amount due William Wendenuth for
services rendered In connection with the
contract for street sweeping for the fiscal
year 1874, $34
For amount required for general expenses.
service Of the fiscal year 1902, $1s9.63.
Metropolitan Police.
For additional amounts required to meet
the objects set forth in the appropriation
for miscellaneous and contingent expenses
for the fiscal year 1902, 81, 100. r.
For additional amounts required to meet
the objects set forth in the appropriation
for the house Of detention for the fiscal
year 1902, $24O.41.
The Commissioners Of the District of CO.
lumbia are authorized to use from the un-
expended balance Of the appropriation Ito
maintain public order, District Of Columbia,
1903." the sum Of $3.50 in addition to the
81 900 heretofore made available for the
construction, maintenance and operation Of
public-comfOrt stations.
For rent of fire department headquarters,
fiscal year 1902, $3.50: for repairs to engine
houses and grounds, $500.
The Commissioners are authorized to pay
s. S. Daish & Sons $16 and Charles Werner.
SIT for fuel delivered, without inspections
required Dy law, nSCdl year
Public schools-For amount required for
contingent expenses, made necessary by the
Increased rates Of insurance, fiscal year
1903, 81 600 Courts-For witness fees, fiscal
year 1896, $1.25.
For payment Of the judgments, including
costs, against the District of Columbia,
$6596.S4, together with a further sum to
pay the interest, at not exceeding 4 per
centun, on said judgments. from the date
the same became due until the date Of pay
ment.
To defray the expenses attending the ex-
ecution Of writs de lunatico inquirendo in
all cases OF INDECENT insane persons COM
mitted or sought to be committed to the
Government Hospital for the Insane by
order Of the executive authority of the Dis
trict of Columbia, $1,000.
Hereafter proceedings by the Comm1D.
sioners OF the District Of Columbia to COM
NIT INDECENT insane persons. and insane per-
sons having violent or dangerous tenden-
cies to the Government Hospital for the
Insane shall be taken in the Equity Court
Of eaid District. and shall be in conformity
with the law IN force In said District on the
18th day Of January. 1899.
That the act Of Congress- approved Janu-
the proceedings for admission to the Gov
ernment Hospital for the Insane In certain
cases, and for other purposes" and all
other acts or parts Of acts inconsistent
herewith, are repealed.
For additional amounts required to meet
the objects set forth in the appropriation
for contingent expenses OF the washington
Asylum for the fiscal.years that ollow:
For the fiscal year 1903. $5983. 10.
For the fiscal year 1902. s., 1854.
Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum-For
additional amounts required for fuel and
light and other objects mentioned under
this head In the appropriation for the serv-
ice of the fiscal years that follow: Fiscal
wear 1899 81 OOO5O; fiscal year 190G $12.O2;
fiscal year 1901, $S31.
For amount required to pay to various In
stitutions obligations incurred for board
and care of children committed TO the
guardianship Of the board of children's
guardians, with authority to pay sS705 to
institutions adjudged to be under sectarian
control, fiscal year 1902. $631.36.
The Commissioners Of the District Of
Columbia are hereby authorized to pay
jurors fees. and the fee OF the United
States marshal In condemnation proceed
ings for the opening of a minor street IN
square "a, from the appropriation for all
leys. District of Columbia.
For additional amount required to pay
the award for damages IN the matter os tho
widening. ef Adams Mil road 81, 2e6s27-
Z For amount required Tor the deportation
Of NONRESIDENT Insane. a.0Oo.
For the enforcement of the provtsions OF
the act to prevent the spread OF scarlet