Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-20
SURDRY CIVIL BILL
1t Was Reported to the Senate
Today. .at-..
LIST OF INCREASES MADE
Many Important Things Provided
For.
A NEW BUILDING PROPOSED
On the Corner of 18th Street and
Pennsylvania Avenue for De-
partment Of Justice, Etc.

The sundry civil. appropriation bill wa0
reported to the Senate from the committee
on appropriations today.
The committee added ST. 7eO 800 to the
amount appropriated by the House. which
was $94 5S7 07032 making the total as re-
ported to the Senate Sl02 347 219.3 The
sundry civil bill for the current year ap-
propriated SCI, ,le3, ,Goo6e The amount esti-
mated for the bill was sos. 4l6 578se
The increase and decrease provided in the
bill as reported follows:
The provision for a building for the de-
partments of State, Justice and Commerce
and Labor, to be located at 18th street ana
Pennsylvania avenue follows:
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury.
In his discretion, to acquire. by purchase.
condemnation, or otherwise, the whole OF
squares numbered 225. 227, 22s 22o and 2ye
in this city, and toward the erection of ona
or two buildings, S3,oeo.o00. That part OF
street, Ohio avenue d street and street
lying between the squares named is made
part of the site authorized by this act.
Increases.
For public building at Cheyenne. Wyo..
$4,000; repairs and preservation of public
buildings, $1,000; for heating apparatus for
public buildings. $4,000 for land and build
ings for the departments OF State Justice
and Commerce and Labor, 5000 .Oo0; for
buildings and expenses. 5000; for fuel.
lights and water for public buildings, x40,.
900; for lighthouses, beacons and fog sig~
nails, 81 1,215. $40; for supplies of lighthouses.
S;;o.oo0; for repairs of lighthouses. 500 200:
for expenses of light vessels, SIS, 600; for
expenses of buoyage. $5o.0o0; for expense OF
fog signals. $4,000: for field expenses undee
coast survey SIS, 600; for special surveys up>
der coast survey, S12.o00; for Office of com.
missioner OF fisheries, "a. 100; for
propagation of food fishes, s10000t
for for ao;nn,en maintenance nee of vessels % 500: ,
steel counter. etc. $1,000; for continuing
construction of Senate Office building, $780,
600; for guaeing streams and determining
the water supply of the United States,
s2o0.0co: in preparation OF report Of the
mineral resources of the United States.
$4,000; for continuation of the forest re-
serves surveys. $4,000: for protection of
Casa Grande ruin, In Arizona. $1,000: for
expenses of return to Alaska Of pupils IN
Indian school at Carlisle. Pa, $3.7n5; for
support of reindeer in Alaska, $1,000; for
repairs of building, Columbia Institution for
the Deaf and Dumb, S1,00o; ratraveling
expenses of the President, ZOO; for light.
ing the executive mansion and public
grounds. 81, ,S04; for continuing erection of
Grant memorial, $40 coo: for expenses of
unveiing the statue of General Mcclellan,
$500; for military posts, $4,000; for supp
port and medical treatment of patients at
Providence Hospital. $4,000; for support
and medical treatment of patients at GAR
field Memorial Hospital, $1,000; for shop
building at Pacific branch, National Home,
$4,000; for special counsel for Mission In
dams, 81 900; for United States pententiary
at Atlanta, Ga. $1,000 for building for bus
reau of American republics, 500 600; for
purchase of manuscripts of charters and
constitutions, $4,000; for jamestown expo
sition, 81 10000 Total increase. 81, ,766. .049.
Decrease-For preparation OF law indexes
and to provide trained law clerks there
for, IS, $40. Net increase. 81, 700, 300.
New Building Proposed.
commission to be composed of the
Secretary of State, the Secretary Of the
Treasury. the Attorney General the Sec
superintendent of the Capitol building
and grounds is created to report to Con-
Gress preliminary plans and an estimate
of cost for one or two buildings to be
erected on the site named for the use OF
the Departments of State, Justice and
Commerce and Labor, and for other gov
ernmental purposes. such preliminary
plans and estimate of cost to be paid for
out of the appropriation.
For continuing the work for the erec-
ton of the memorial to Gen. Ulysses H.
Grant, $4,000 are appropriated. II is prog
yided that the memorial may be located
in the unoccupied portion of the Botanic
Garden grounds, between list and I'd
the Grant memorial commission, and that
such portion of the funds heretofore ap-
propriated for the memorial and now
available may be used in constructing
extra foundation for the memorial IL the
character of the soil on the site selected
shows such extra foundation to be neces-
sary.