Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-19
CALLS ON D. c. TO REPAY
$282,754.26 TO TREASURY
Money Alleged to Be Due for Care Of
INDECENT Patients at st.
Elizabeth's.
PANAMA FORTS, $4,5s5.ooo
Lincoln Memorial Gets $500. COO and
Amphitheater at Arlington
National Cemetery
100000.

The sundry civil bill, carving
SI27,237.221.24 and providing fo-
multitude of items, including
the Panama canal Notifications
and large part of the admins
trations preparedness program,
was reported favorably to the
House today from the appropria-
tions committee.
Scattered here and there be-
tween the great mass of items are
several important provisions for
the District of Columbia.
The most notable of these are a
provision for the purchase by the
government of connecting strip
between Rock Creek Park and
Potomac Park; 100000 for re-
building the old and dilapidateI
District courthouse; a $4,000
field house for public athletic pur-
poses in East Potomac Park:
10000 new building for the Co.
lumbia Institution for the Deaf:
$4,000 to complete the Depart
ment of Interior building, and
further legislation from the Dis
trict committee of the House re-
quiring the repayment by the
District to the United States OF
$282,754.26.
This item reads:
Caring for the Insane.
ITO further reimburse the United
States, and in full. the amount due on
account of one-half the per capita cost
of the, maintenance of INDECENT pa
tients in the Government Hospital for
the Insane from the District of Column
bia in excess of the number charged
to and paid for by said District during
the fiscal years 1879 to 1912. Inclusive
The first repayment on this account
was authorized in a previous sundry
civil bill, after an investigation by an
accountant hired by the House District
committee. A subcommittee approved
report made by the accountant. but
no further report or action has been
taken on the subject by the present
District committee. Chairman Johnson
appeared before the members of the
da
up the sundry civil bill. and left with
them a statement concerning the hos
pital account; but that statement does
not appear in the hearings on the bill.
He made his appearance there after
the hearings on that part of the bill
had been closed.
Legalizes "St. Elizabeth's."
In connection with the Government
Hospital for the Insane the bill carries
a paragraph to make legal the popular
name for the institution, namely, st.
Eliza beth's Hospital
1t also carries a provision to turn
over to the families of deceased sem
ators and representatives the engraved
plates of portraits that have been
made or shall be made hereafter.
The bill. of course. has thousands
other to Washingtonians. The main
items affecting the city. however, are
the following:
sunnort. 10000: removal of college
women's dormitory. and furnishing
new dormitory, $4,000.
Replacing fence about the Rawlins
statue with concrete coping. $S,ooo;
West Potomac Park, $4,000: extending
Easily point sewer In West Potomac
Park. 1000; double park lodge, Mont
rose Park. $500; odn field house. East 70
For continuing the Lincoln memorial
commission work. to be Immediately
available. 100000.
For Arlington Amphitheater.
For completing the construction of
the Arlington memorial amphitheater,
81 90. 900, to be made Immediately avail
able.
For the work Of connecting Potomac
Park and Rock Creek Park the ap-
of $50,000 is accompanied
by LEGISLATION providing authorization
for the parkway commission to take
the Lands delineated in the report re-
gently made to Congress-; also giving
the commission authority to sete1e an
questions and controversies between
the United States and adverse claimants
~ titles to lands within or adjacent TO
the area desired for the parkway, sub
iect to the approval of the Attorney
General. A.
The commission is composed OF the
Secretary of the Treasury. the Secretary
of War and the Secretary OF Agricul-
ture.
The preparedness program in the shape OF
an increase of nearly 81 ZOO. 600 for the
sxisting arsenal plants, the facilities for
of field artillery, etc.
Panama Canal Fortifcations.
For the fortifcations at the panama
anal the total OF s4.535.oo0 Ii &rried.
being approximately double the item in
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