Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-05
RESU[TSSUMMEDUP
Items Included in the Big 40.
preparation Bills.
MANY OF LOCAL INTEREST
Washington to Witness Official Rec
ognition of Panama Canal Opening.
SUBSTITUTE SCHOOL TEACHERS
Money Provided for Continuing
Work of Tariff Board-Some
Omitted Provisions.
MANY OF LOCAL INTEREST
SUBSTITUTE SCHOOL TEACHERS

The District OF Columbia had much
at stake when Senator Owens fiilibuster
in the Senate yesterday threatened the
appropriation bills.
IN the naval bill. the sundry civil and
the general deficiency supply measures
were many items affecting the District
and local institutions. and the failure
OF the three would have deprived the
District. at least for the present, of
important improvements and OF many
legislative provisions that will benefit
the municipal activities.
The holding of official ceremonies in
Washington at the time of the opening
Of the Panama canal. at which the rep
resentatives to the San Francisco exposi-
ton from foreign countries Will be in
attendance, and ironclads from the navtes
OF the world anchored in the harbor
will be a feature, is assured by a pro-
vision that remained in the naval APP
propr alton bill as 1t was signed by the
President. The battleships sent to the
exposition by the foreign governments
are to assemble at Hampton roads and
are to be reviewed there by the Presi-
dent as they start on their way around
through the new canal to the Golden
Gate.
Provides for Substitute Teachers.
thority to hire substitute teachers at
one-half the basic salary Of the grade
in which they are employed for the first
thirty days, and at the full basic salary
for longer period, untI July 1. 1912.
through a provision in the sundry civil
bill, and thus is the board pulled out OF
the mess in which II found itself as y
result of a ruling by the controller of
the Treasury that there was no legal
authority for the system that had been
in vogue for many years.
Congress showed humanitarian gener-
osity by agreeing that the hospital and
surgical expenses of Miss Alice V.
Houghton, the census bureau clerk who
was severely injured by machinery VIII lie
at work. should be paid out of the federal
treasury to a total of not more than
$1,000
Although the Senate had previously
adopted provisions for an appropriation
Of $1,000 to make up the deficiencies in
the relief and pension funds of the po-
lice and fire departments: for $4,000 for
the establishment Of a fidelity division
in the Treasury Department through
which government officials and employees
were to be bonded at minimum rates. and
institute suits to determine the title to
lands along the Anacostia river and other
in the District, all Of the items
were lost in conference and therefore
failed Of passage.
Lorimer Expense Account.
A feature Of the general deficiency bill
as 1t was reported from the Senate COM
mittee on appropriations was provision
Of 5000 to reimburse Senator William
Lorimer for the expense to which he was
put in defending his title to a seat in
the upper house of Congress. But the
Of the provision at the re-
quest of Mr.. Lorimer himself precluded
It from becoming a law.
Secretary Of State Knox will get a
raise in salary to 1000, corresponding TO
the other cabinet officers, beginning to-
day. as a result of the adoption of
the senatorial Office to which he was
elected expired yesterday, and the constitu-
tional provision which prevents him from
getting more than $1,000 year for the
first two years of his Office as Secretary
Is imperative after March 4. BY q pro-
vision in the legislative appropriation bill
his stipend was increased to the level Of
that Of the other cabinet officials after
July 1, and the Senate committee decided
he should get the increase as soon as
possible.
An appropriation Of $3.50 for materials
for the use of the bookbinder in the
Treasury Department was adopted In the
Senate and accepted by the conferees.
Item to Cover Treasury Loss.
On the motion Of Senator Gallinger
while the bill was being considered In
the Senate an appropriation was made
to cover a loss Of S1.OOO.4O in the Office
Of the treasurer Of the United States,
occurring a few weeks ago.
Ten thousand dollars was added to the
bill to pay for paper for checks and
drafts issued by the treasurer. The ap-
was recommended by the
Senate committee on appropriations.
An appropriation of $1,000 Is made as
the result of action by the Senate for
the instruction and employment Of the
blind Of the Columbia Poly technic Insti-
District, and for the purchase and re-
pair of machinery and tools which may
De needed to equip a workshop for the
blind of the District.
For the completion OF the construction
Of the new power plant for the Capitol
the bill provides $64, 1851 ,65, which is
s1O.O 600 more than the House allowed.
Elliott Woods, superintendent Of the
Capitol, gets $500 for preparing the
plans and supervising the construction of
other Senate amendment.
In the bill, also, is the appropriation Of
$3.50 coo for the purchase of the Meridian
Hill property, between Euclid street, Co.
umbia road or 18th street. w street or
Florida avenue. and 18th street, for a
House provision, without change.
Another amendment to the bill. proposed
by the Senate appropriations committee
and adopted by the conferees, provides
g. GIT to be Immediately available, to con-
inue the construction of the new Court
steam heating system to connect with
hat of the Interior Department plant.
to Widows Of Senators.
The widows Of senators who have died
since the end of the last session OF Con-
,ress are each appropriated a senator's
annual salary.
Provision for the appointment Of q
airy of State and the chairmen of the
senate and House committees on library
o select a site on public grounds in
he District, and to procure plans for q
thousand-dollar monument
o Thomas Jefferson, and for an appro-
riation of 5000 to defray the cost OF
plans, was put into the bill
n the floor Of the Senate. and became q |
art of the law.
To pay judgments rendered by the |
'ourt OF Claims. and reported to Con- |
ress at its present session. the bill pro-
tdes $25, 81. So under the War Depart |
lent. $500 2O9.S9 under the Navy Depart
1ent. $31O.14 under the Post ONCE De-
$765 under the Department OF /
Justice, s.. $40 under the Department or /
commerce and Labor, $685.. S12-sS under |
he Department Of Agriculture and $685.