Evening star., 1909-03-02
SENATE WORKS FAST
Adds Many Items to Sundry
Civil Bill in Quick Time.
$50, 900 TO POTOMAC PARK
Increase in Presidents Salary or
Travelling Expenses.
NO SUNDAY RATE FOR PRINTS
Freedmen's Hospital Provisions
Itemized-$4o, 900 for Execu-
tive Offices.
$4,000 TO POTOMAC PARK
NO SUNDAY RATE FOR PRINTS

Fifty thousand dollars for improvement
OF Potomac Park, which lies along the
water front west of Washington Monu-
ment. was added to the big sundry civil
appropriation bill in the Senate late yes
terday afternoon.
A strenuous effort Is to be made by the
Senate conferees to keep this item in the
measure. For lighting two roadways in
the same park the Senate added s.. 400.
The Senate also added to the bill $4,000
for repairing the machinery OF the eleva-
tor IN the west wing Of the patent office.
and $1,000 for additional steel stacks for
the scientific library Of that office It
added $500 for the Court of Claims
building now under construction in Ju-
dietary Square. to be applied for plumbing,
painting. etc.
1t gave $4,000 fos additional accommo-
dations to the building erected for the
omces OF the President. and for all pur-
poses conu 'cted Herewith. to be expend-
ed under the direction of Mr.. Taft when
he shall become President.
Restrictions About Monument.
A provision was inserted that hereafter
no advertisement OF any kind shall be
displayed and no articles sold in or around
the Monument except upon written
authority of the Secretary Of War.
Three hundred dollars was given for the
rent or quarters in the District for the
Boys. under the Department of Justice.
paragraph authorizing the public
printer in his discretion to pay Iinotype
operators and morotype operators at a
rate not exceeding 60 cents per hour, pro-
vided that when the exigencies of the
to 14
Sundays he may pay employees not re-
ceivinS annual salaries up to 50 per cent
IN addition to the regular rate, was strick-
en- out of tie bill
Toward the construction Of the Senate
office building, $123, was added to the
bill. and an urexpended balance Of a pre-
Vlous appropriation reappropriated.
The Senate also added $34, ,SOS for an
assistant superintendent resident physi-
clan and assistants of various kinds at
supei''ntcnde of that hospital The
House provision approprlating the same
amo1rt for thu superintendent and $25 900
for the service of other assistants was
stricken out. The Senate amendment
names each Of the employees. while the
House provision diG not.
Senate Works Fast.
In passing the sundry civil bill yester-
day the Senate was in true form. 1t fin
ished the job in less than two hours. not
withstanding the great length Of the bill
and the important general legislation it
carried. The grand total Of the measure
as 1t passed the Senate was about s139-
100000.
An item of 5000 was added for travel
ing expenses for the President II the
Presidents salary is increased to $780,
600 this item will be stricken out in con-
ference.
On motion Of Senator Foraker $120. 600
was added to pay the Roman Catholic
Church for property in Porto Rico
The authorization for the issuance Of
3O,OO0,O 900 Of Panama canal bonds. in ad-
dition to former authorizations. was
stricken from the bill on protest Of Sena-
tor Clay.
Senator Hale opposed the adoption Of
an amendment offered by Mr.. Frye ap-
propriating, $200.OOO for participation by
the United States in the International ex-
position at Brussels, which was rejected
on point Of order
Il do not think we should embark in
any more eXpositions this year." said Mr.
Hale.
The same objection was made by Mr.
Hale to an amendment by Mr. Depew,
who wished to- obtain $4,000 for partici-
patton by the United States I'm the 3OOth
centenary of the discovery of the Hudson
river, and the amendment was rejected
An amendment by Senator Carter for an
appropriation for the United States to
participate in the Austro-Hungarfan ex-
position met q like fate