Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-21
THE DISTRICT BILL
Local Appropriation Measure
Presented to the House.
IT CARRIES S9,394,928
A CUT OF $3,o2s, 51s.65 IN THE
ESTIMATES.
Per Diem System Of Payment Done
Away With-No Salaries increased
Number Of Innovations Favored.

Number of Innovations Favored.
The District of Columbia appropriation
bill was reported to the House today by
Representative McCleary of Minnesota, DIS
trlct subchairman of the committee on APP
propriations The measure carries the sum
of 50 394 $685. or 81. o23. 51S.65 less than the
estimates submitted by the Commissioners
As published in The Star some time ago
the bill does not provide for single III
crease of salary for the Dtstrlct' ooe''
away with the per diem system and spe-
officially provides for salaries OF all EN-
ployes heretofore paid from general appro-
priations whose service has been coh'ihu
Gus in the past; omits all provision Tor the
support and maintenance of the boys re-
form school and provides instead specinc
appropriation of $50 900 for the care OF boys
committed to the institution by the DIS
trict courts; and omits the specific appro-
priations for the Emergency Hospital. pro-
yiding instead an appropriation OF sioVV
TO be expended by the board OF charitles IN
caring for INDECENT patients. The measure
also contains many other changes OF IN
terest to residents of the District
Committees Explanation.
The explanation of the committee on ap-
preparations, submitted in it's report to the
House on the bill, follows in part:
1.-THE estimates of the Commissioners of the
District exclusive of the water department,
aggregate SI2,41S. $3.50. The total
amount recommended to be appropriated for
the general expenses of the District Tor the
fiscal year 1906 is, exclusive OF the water oe-
partrnent, $9.:sH, 1913, OF which sum the gem
eral government is required to pay S4,OSi,-
400 that being one-half of the whole
amount The first-named sum is $3.O23.-
5lS.G5 less than the estimates submitted py
the Commissioners. .
+aThe amount appropriated for the general
expenses of the District for. the current
fiscal year Q905 is SIC, SSs,03i, or sl,493.o96
more than is recommended In the accom-
panying bill for 1906
THE amount recommended for the water
department. all of which is payable from
ths water revenues, is S133 $3.50, being re-
duetion of 81. 740 under the appropriations
for the water department for the current
fiscal year
at is estimated that the water revenues
available for the fiscal year 1906 Will
amount to Sill 900, but il is provided in the
accompanying bill it was in the acts
for the current and the thirteen preceding
fiscal years, that any surplus of these rev.
enues over the appropriations made specih-
calIy therefrom shall be. applied to the work
OF extending the high-seryice system of
water distribution. Under these indefinite
aprropria tons of the surplus water rev.
enues there has been expended to January
l. 1915. for extending the high-service sys-
tenn of water distribution about s.. $50, $50.
The estimated ultimate cost is So S44, 1856 AZ.
'"The total general revenues of the Dis
1rict for the fiscal year 1906, it Is estimated,
will amount to $5,462. 325. The appropria-
lions recommended in the accompanying
bin and payable from the revenues of the
District amount to S4,69I, 469.
Advances Made s'
Il In addition to the foregoing sum, appro-
priations have already been passed by the
i,,.
dicial act. and other sums will probably be
included in the sundry civil bill, chargeable
next year to the revenues of the District,
aggregating 100000.
Under authority of the acts of February
H. 1901 June /. 1902 and March 3. 1903,
adTa noes made by the United States treas
ury prior to June 80. 1894, in excess Of the
revenues of the District of Columbia
amounted to 81 $40 6e1 60 This. sum will
probably be increased as your committee
Is advised to s.. 400, 600. before the close of
the current fiscal year, under the authority
for further advances contained in the act
of April y. 1904 The interest charge upon
this sum for 1906 will amount to SOS 600
Under the legislation providing for
union railroad station In the District in
addition to other charges against the Dis
trict revenues specifically provided for in
the accompanying bill. the sum of $50 600
Is in terms appropriated for each of the five
fiscal years beginning July 1, 1903.
j,
81. 691. 400. recommended in the accompany-
ing bill, the sums referred to- it will be
seen that the probable total amount to
become charge against the revenues of
the District of Columbia during the fiscal
year 1906 will not exceed S5015, 49, or
S446.SJ6 less than the estimated sum from
those revenues. which surplus will be avail
able. as required by law. to reimburse the
United States treasury a considerable por-
ton OF the whole sum that will have prob
ably been advanced by July i. 1905, on ac-
count of the District, under the acts re-
ferred to, and which 1t Is required shall be
reimbursed out of the revenues of the Dis
trict from time to time. within five years.
beginning July l. 1905.
THE bill provides for the increase of no
salaries for 1906 beyond the rates of COM
pensation authorized during the current
fiscal year
The Harbor Patrol
With regard to the harbor patrol the re-
port of the subcommittee says: in lieu of
the appropriations heretofore made of 81 200
for harbormaster, and So 500 for I'm
provements and protection of the harbor
and river front, the bill proposes an ap-
preparation of $3.50 for expenses of the
harbor patrol. including additional lieu
tenant of police to be harbor master and
AN additional sergeant of police. together
with four employees required to operate the
harbor police boat
Per Diem Employees.
The bill as reported specifically provides
for salaries of all employees heretofore
paid from general appropriations whose
service has been continuous in the past
ana Will be required in the future under all
normal conditions in the government of the
District of Columbia. This action is in
pursuance of the policy adopted by Con-
sress In 1882 with reference to all en
Payments In the executive departments at
Washington, and which has with the ex-
ception OF the offices OF the supervising
architect OF the treasury. the chief engi-
neers in the War Department and certain
construction bureaus in the Navy DEPART
ment, been rigidy adhered to with results
thai have been eminently satisfactory from
the standpoint OF accurate knowledge as
10 the numerical force actually employed
as well as considerations of economy and
avoidance of useless empioyments
Ihe committee have patiently examined
INTO and. so far as possible, have satisfied
themselves as to the necessity for the past
as well as the future employment of each
one OF the individuals whose salaries are
proposed now to be specific In the law In
no case Is the annual salary proposed In the
Dill In excess of the amotint being no. ia rar