Evening star., 1914-03-06

Exceeds amount for 1914 by
*1,753,O17.40.
Is $1.346,O56 less than District
Commi.sioners' estimates.
Merger of Washington and
Georgetown gas companies pro-
vided for.
BOrland amendment, providing
for property owners to bear cost
of paving under certain cOndi-
tiOns, stricken out.
Upholding the half-and-half principle of
appropriating for the District of Column
bia in every instance. the Senate appro-
priations committee today reported to the
Senate the District appropriation for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1915. he bill
as amended by the Senate carries total
of sl3. l45114. This is an increase Of
sl.1Ua. 1o6 over the amount carried in the
House bill
The eighth section of the House bill,
providing for covering into the federal
Treasury all revenues of the District in
excess of the current appropriations for
the year. was stricken out. The Senate
committee substituted the following for
section eight:
Section $. That all laws and parts of
laws to the extent that they are incon-
sistent with this act are hereby repealed.
This language is that which is custom
AIRY in closing appropriation bill The
members of the subcommittee which pre-
pared the amendments feel that the rev.
cnues of the District should be used for
the Improvement of the National Capital
and that all of the revenues should be
used for this purpose. the government
matching dollar for dollar in all appro-
priations for the District. The House
provision contained in section eight has
been denounced as a fragrant attack upon
the half-and-half principle.
Borland Amendment Lost.
The Senate committee also struck from
the bill the so-called Borland amend
mcnt, which provides that hereafter the
cost of paving the streets and roadways
in the District shall be charged against
owners of abutting property, the total
cost being charged in cases where the
street is not more than forty feet from
curb to curb, and in the case of wider
streets, the owners are to pay for forty
feet of the paving and the remainder is
to be paid by the District government.
This. too. was direct attack upon the
half-and-haH principle.
The estimates submitted by the Dis
trict Commissioners amounted to $14.-
43l.61i.i9. The bill reported to the
Senate therefore is just s1,346.35S less
than the Commissioners estimates The
amount appropriated under existing law
for the fiscal year ending next June was
I1 ,392. 80 The bill as reported by the
Senate exceeds the amount for 1914,
smnnS H. nr;nc;nai ;,an, of inora,so
T.; ,hs Ssna,a biii ara tba fnI,owina. Nm,
municipal hospital, $4,000: new Emer-
gency Hospital building. $4,000; Ana
g. Nat;onai c.mard sSa onn. ,so
80 esh ,narEet SIo3 sno. ybarves for
6sh rari,at go no. ,,i.d,,ct and hr;dSe
eh nc. nve, - o ;iS
70 Saii 20 I'm ioau s Ena... Ian, 90
uish ScbooI s1.5 too. lonrevitv nav for
ias'il, ,a.,'h..rs go "si fE'- -
seiooi .
Would Abolish Asvlum HOSPITAL,
The new municipal hospital is to be
erected on the thirty-fye-acre tract owned
bv the District AT r4th and rpsbur streets
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-
SOUNDS ne oeath kneii OF the washington
Asylum Hospital which has been declared
4 uisSrdce 70 the l'stricL
The new institution IS TO be called the
Saiinser fioSplta! IN honor OF the senator
1Ioi'l ->sM ilaihP VINO LOT so ioiis "
,,, - ,.o,,,,,.... III 'ne upper
''ouse Ts =, da,,1ia Ions ~, ,;,.
sion 80, 81 s IN eoii.iitee t - ap
E.stern High ScbooJ IL nnbe,d viii cInsa
a f;eht which has been made nv Senator
,t; n.ans ot oregon e 70 nass rne Pres Pfese9. ap,
olViGeo SO tlat par, snouio De used 1or
rha Sena,a eann,i,t.a has ,no,,,a. .,
the bill an amendment permitting the
washington Gas Light Company TO pur-
chase the Georgetown Gas Light Com
pany, setting $155 as the price to be paid
bv the Washington company for each
share OF stock in the Georgetown com
many. This proposed merger is acceptab Bile
10 hoth comnanies.
anothar a,nendment nrovides $40 OOO for
,enavinp 7tb street for which there n. 9
hean mich agitation nv mercbants along
81 -. e
rba House nrovis,on nrob,b,+ing tho col
e .vs1., So. - .t e
lecuons OF SUBSCRIPTIONS IN tne puDHc