Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-28
FORbOND|NGbUREAU| MANY LOCAL ITEMS
Appropriations for District
Carried in Deficiency Bill.
AGGREGATE IS $52,661.85
Last of the Annual Supply Measures
Reported to the House-Grand
Total of $780,, 1881.


| The general deficiency appropriations
| bill, the last of the annual supply meas
| ures remaining Enacted upon by the
House, was reported today from the COM
| mittee on appropriations by Representa-
| tive Tawney of Minnesota. the chairman.
1t carries a grand total of S7961, 1881.
made up of the following general items:
state Department, $2?s42.35: civil serv-
ice commission. $1,000: Treasury Depart
ment, sl.3s3 S3?.34; District of Column
| bia, So, 661 81: military establishment,
s6al. 7Os333 Home for Disabled Volunteer
| Soldiers. $50. 1880; river and narbor
work, s419sO: Military Academy. $4,000:
Navy Department. s7,543.o5; naval estab-
lishment, $507. 81: Interior Depart
ment. $500 1928 pensions, $500, 000 De
partment of Justice, $3s. 551.5s: judicial.
S24S: United States courts, $154, 14Oo1;
Department of Agriculture 1856, 1872 90;
Department of Commerce and Labor.
$50, O4767: House of Representatives,
s12a. 1894: governms9t printing office.
81 200; Judgments. U{ited States courts,
S14, 1859: judgments, Court of Claims.
s1a4SOO7; judgments, Indian depreda-
tons, $14S29; audited account, $7U9, I0O.4o
For Work on Tariff Bill.
An item of 81, 500 for clerical help and
an order for all necessary printing to en-
able the democrats to proceed with the
work of tariff bill preparation during the
summer are contained in the bill.
The appropriation is to be expended for
expert, clerical or stenographic service,
upon the authority of Representative Os-
car w. Underwood, chairman-elect of the
ways and means committee. Mr.. Under
wood is also given authority to order
printing and binding necessary to carry
on tariff hearings and investigations.
Appropriations for District.
The Districts share Of $52.661s5 is
made up as follows:
For maintenance Of the Takoma Park
Public Library for the fiscal year 1912,
So. 800; for purchase of books, to be inn
mediately available. $1,000.
Contingent expenses: For postage, for
strictly official mail matter, 5000: for
additional amounts required for advertis-
ing taxes in arrears, $3.50: for the pur-
chase of metal Identification number tags
for horse-drawn vehicles for business puf-
poses in the District. $500.
Judicial expenses-For additional amount
required for judicial expenses for the
fiscal year 1908. $3.50.
For coroners office-Additional amount
for contingent expenses. $500.
General neutrality-suspicious. for gen.
eral advertising authorized and required
by law, for the fiscal year 1910, 9-56;
for 1903. $3.50.
improvements and repairs-Additiona
the work of grading streets. alleys and
roads. for which $4,000 is contained in
the current District bill, to be performed
by hired labor.
pay to A. Wilson e. Bro. s11.s3 for fuel
furnished to the District in 1910. without
the usual certificate of inspection.
The bill carries $500 for the extension
of F. street and $1.25 for the extension
of r street northwest
For the road along the south bank OF
the Anacoktia an additional sum of
S29G.17 is appropriated.
The smallest item in the bill Is one OF
40 cents. under the head purchase of
land, government reservation
Public Schools.
Under the head of public schools 1920
additional is appropriated for the pay of
janitors in the Western High School;
81 40 on account of increased enrolment,
resulting from the operation Of the COM
pulsory education law; 1.J0 additional
on the fire department salary account
for 1908.
Under the health department 5000 adj
ditional is given to the disinfecting serv-
ice and 500 additional for the enforce
ment of the milk law.
Under the juvenile court, for services
rendered by an acting judge in 1911. sos.
and in 1910 $So. There is also an item Of
$9.O2 for additional incidental expenses in
1910.
Various small sums ranging from %
cents to $50 are appropriated to
straighten out various accounts in the
Police Court.
For Institutions.
For the Washington Asylum, 81 800 adj
ditional is appropriated; for the Home
for the Aged and Infirm, $1,000 is appro-
priated. and the unexpended balance of
the appropriation of S., 800 made by the
District in 1908 for duplicating water sup
ply at the home is reappropriated and
continued available until June 80. 1912
For the National Training Schools for
Boys, $4,000 additional is appropriated;
for the Eastern Dispensary. $500: for
the tuberculosis Hospital. 5000; for the
Industrial Home School for Coisred Chill
drcn, $3.50, and for the Industrial Home
School, $1,000
The board. of childrens guardians is
authorized to pay, in addition to $1.JOO
heretofore authorized. not more than
81 900 to institutions under sectarian con-
troll
Naval Battalion Pay.
For the pay Of officers and enlisted men
Of the Naval Battalion for the annual
cruise of 1910 s3,61O.12 is appropriated.
with 5000 for the equipment of the naval
battalion storehouse
Several small sums in taxes are re-
funded and s., S3O&J. with interest. is APP
propriated for payment of judgment
against the District
For the support of prisoners at the
District jail 5000 is appropriated
For the payment of back miscellaneous
expenses for the Supreme Court of the