Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-23
Biggest Appropriation Measure
Appears in House.
IT CARRIES S140,5s0,030
Largest Single Item Is SAL, sec, 600
for the Panama Canal.
PROVIDES FOR FORTIFICATI0NS
Expected Bill Will Be damned
Through the House Under Sus-
pension of tho Rules.


The sundry civil appropriation bill, big
gest and most cumbersome OF all the an
nual supply measures, was reported to
the House today by Representative raw
ney Of Minnesota, chairman OF the ap-
preparations committee. 1t carries *llo.-
59O,OSO SIS, AL 1903 more than the current
appropriation, and $1i.4S6.JoS less than
the estimates submitted to the commit
tee for the fiscal year 1912.
The largest single item carried In the
bill Is S45, $4,000 for continuing work on
the Panama canal. The next largest Is
an item of $2l,311. 245 for the construc-
ton Of public buildings throughout the
country. The Panama canal appropriation
is Increased by $7.695, 600 and the public
buildings appropriation by $16oH12o
over last year: 100000 Is provided in
the measure for the fertilization OF the
Panama canal.
Among the important items are the
following: For the tariff board, $+Vo.uD
an increase of S15O,UO; for the ecolioi,ly
board $4,000, a reduction or S.S,UOV' LOT
the interstate commerce commission, 81
$1,000. an increase Of S455,0OO: for re-
moving the wreck Of the battlesnip
Maine. $4,000. an increase OF SWuo'
for a memorial arch at Valley Forge'
Pa, 100000; for a monument TO com.
memorate the battle of Guiiford court
House, $4,000: for river and harbor I'M
proyements under contract, $'.U2o.VU,
reduction Of $1,713.6O1. and Tor recon-
struction Of the hall Of the House OF KEEP
resentatives. $4,000.
May Pass Under Suspension.
This great measure will probably be
passed. with the exception OF several
items which will be decided upon as mat
tiers of party dispute, under suspension
Of the rules in the House. Just twenty
eight years ago the famous Sam" Ran
dali, then chairman Of the appropriations
committee, tried to pass sundry civil
bill containing a clause repeating the
free coinage of silver, under suspension
of the rules, by the necessary two-thirds
vote. He was badly beaten tn the House.
He then eliminated the free silver para
graph and the bill went through without
trouble. Thomas B. Reed, author OF the
famous Reed rules, and first 'czar Of the
House, improved the occasion to de-
the great sundry civil bill. carrying the
then enormous sum Of $2O,Om,OOO.
Although the sundry civil bill this year
carries eight times that sum, including
two items each greater than the entire
bill of that time, probably no one will
question the enactment of this measure
in a hurry under suspension Of the rules
If 1t Is stripped OF its partisan political
features and separate votes allowed on
these.
Just prior to the report of the bill
the appropriations committee directed
the insertion in the measure OF an ap-
preparation Of 100000 to purchase mart
OF the tract between the Senate Office
buildings and Union station, which
Congress, at It's last session. went on
record as desiring to purchase. Com
gress expressed intention Of purchas-
ing the land. which Is estimated to be
worth about $3,500.00e, at the rate Of
half 2 million year. The $50e. 200 ap-
propriated last year has not yet been
spent either in whole or in part, and
this action Of the committee today,
when approved by the House, as II ad-
mittedly will be. places $1,000, 900 in
the hands OF the commission for the
eniargement OF the Capitol grounds.
practically all OF the land, and 1t is
understood that the million dollars will
be spent soon after the beginning Of
the next fiscal year.
Local Appropriations.
The following appropriations OF special
local interest are contained in the bill:
For buildings and grounds in and
around Washington, $157, $50. an increase
Of $40. 800.
For expenses Of the Executive Mansion,
$4,000. the same as appropriated for the
current fiscal year.
For lighting the Executive Mansion and
public grounds S2S,22O. the same as ap-
propriated for the current fiscal year.
For the unwilling of the statue of John
Paul Jones in this city, $500, recon-
mended as a new item.
For the Washington Monument, $11.S20,
the same as appropriated for the current
fiscal year.
For expenses of the commission on fine
arts. $500. reduction Of $l,2D0.
For repairs to the Army Medical Mu-
commended as a new item.
To Treat Destitute Patients.
For the support and treatment of desti-
tute patients in Providence Hospital, S19,-
0eQ, the same as this year, in addition
$50 for power plant.
i FOR maintenance of Garfield Memorial
Hospital, $4,000. the same as appro-
priated for the current fiscal year. in
addition to $1,000 for the improvement
Of the hospital grounds.
For aid to the Children'S Hospital on
account Of the building OF an addition
and for alterations and improvements.
$4,000
For repairs of buildings, Interior De-
partment, $4,000. an increase OF $4,000,
in addition to 5000 for coal and ash
conveyor and $12,O0D for q new roof on
the Patent Office.
For work at the Capitol and for general
and special repairs, $4,000, the same as
appropriated for the current year.
For improving the Capitol grounds. $780,
NO, the same as appropriated for the cur
rent fiscal year.
For the Capitol power plant and light
ing the Capitol and grounds. the House
and Senate Office buildings and the LIZ
brary of Congress, $4,000, reduction Of
$4,000.
Increase for Government Hospital.
For the Government Hospital for the
Insane, $439. 400, an increase Of $4,000.
For the Columbia Institute for the Deaf
and Dumb, $4,000. an increase Of $4,000.
For Howard University. $500. re-
duction Of $11,SOO, and in addition l1,340
for expenses In connection with the heat
ing and lighting plant used jointly by the
Freedmen's Hospital and the university.
For Freedmens Hospital. $lO2.6 an
increase OF $47.1O.
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