Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1896, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY,. JUNE 12, -1896-SIXTEEN PAGES. be.) FOR LOCAL EXPENSES Items That Were Included in the District Appropriation Bill. THE MEASURE AS FINALLY PASSED Changes Provided For in the Va- rious Departments. THE CHARITIES SCHEDULE + ‘The last appropriation bill signed by the President yesterday was that providing for the expenses of the District of Co- Iwmbia for the next fiscal’ year. Many changes have been made in that measure since it was passed by both houses. The conference committee worked on 201 amendments, and only by the most careful serutiny of the bill from day to day as it passed through the various stages of agreement and disagreement, could its real provisions be ascertained. The Star prints today a synopsis of the bill as it became a law for the in- formation of these who were unable to keep track of the many changes and amendments. Changes in the Executive Offices. Minor changes are made In the executiye offices, including an increase of the force of assistant inspectors of plumbing from four to five. The accounting officers of the treasury are directed to credit the accounts of ex-boards of Commissioners with disbursements not exceeding 39,713.50 heretofore suspende A deputy collector 1s added to the force of the collector's of- fice at a salary of $1,800, with the provision that he shall pertorm the duties assigned by the collector and shall give a bond, but that the collector shall be in all re- spects responsible to the United States and District and te individuals. A change is made in the method of paying for the expense of cleaning markets, there being a lump sum cf $1,200 appropriated instead of so much per market. It is required that all fees and other forms of income derived from the markets shall he paid to the collector of taxes, and no person employed by the District in_ or about the kets Shall receive any fees or compensation in addition to the salaries prov by law. A new office is created called the spectal assessment office, with one clerk at $1,700, Seven at $1,200 and two at $4”. The street sweeping office is placed upon a new salary i with superintendent a stant at $1,400, a clerk at . a chief inspector at $1,200, three in- Spectors at $1,200, ten at $1,100, three at $800, a foreman at $#) and a messenger at 3a. The surveyor of the District !s authorized to employ assistants to the extent of $5,200. As a new departure it is provided that the whole cost of maintaining the labo- ratory and office of the inspector of gas and meters shall be paid by the Washing- ton Gas Light Company. It is further Provided that the recorder of deeds shall make no charge for reporting to the Dis- trict a or for entry upon the tax books all transfers of real estate, as required by law. Unexpended Garbage Balance. The wnexpended balance of the garbage appropriation remaining on hand at the end of this fiscal year is to become avail- able for the next fiscal year. The rent of the District offices is fixed at $9,000. a at No epprepriations were made to any large amount for street extension. The ovly *t reference to the highway act Was the appropriation of 310,000, to be peid wholly out of the revenues of ihe District, for the payment of the expenses for completing the pians in conformity with that act, and an additional $10,000 for advertising and court expenses involved in the execution of that act. ‘The appropriation cf $26,681.09 was made for the payment of the owners ef the lots on the river front that was decided to be the property of the United States as hav- ing been included within the limits of the Potemac river improvement. Street Improvement. The following appropriations were made: For assessment and permit work, $10,000; for the improvement S in Georgetown, -tion, mn; f streets and ave- “40; in the north- in the southwest, in utheast, $34,500; in the ast, $44,500; making a total for street improvement of $150,000. Specific street improvements were pro- vided for thus: $6,000 for paving Florida avenue on the south side from Connecticut avenue to ISth strect; $7,500 for paving P street northeast, from North Capitol street to Florida avenue. The maximum price for asphalt pave- ment was fixed at $1.4) square yard, except for wnusually heavy pavement, where $2 will be p: For grading streets, alieys and roads, 36,0), to be used in the pur- chase of Implemeats for the work done py the inmates of the Washington Asylum. For the repair of pavements the sum of $i xiven, and for the condemnation of streets, roads and alleys, $1,000. For Sc wers. Under the head of sewers the following items appear: $50,000 for cleaning and re- Pairing sewers and basins; $25,000 for re- placing obstructed sewers; $75,000 for main and pipe sewers; $75,000 for suburban se ers; $25,000 for the 15th street and F str-et portion of the F street and Easby’s Point intercepting sewer, for which a contract is authorized not to exceed $87,000; $1,000 for sewer In 15th street extended between Co- lumbia road and Kenesaw avenue, and the Commissioners may lay a water main be- tween se points if found neces: TY, $60,~ v00 for the Rock creek and B street inter- cepting sewer; $17,000 for the completion of the Eckirgton valley sewer, to be made immediately availabl 2,000 for the com- pletion of the Brookland sewer; $1,000 for completion of the Kenesaw avenue sewer: $1,000 for condemning rights of way for sewers: $1,000 for automatic flushing tanks. For the current work of repairing streets, avenues and alleys $10,000 is given, to be available for repairing the pavements of street railways when necessary, the amount thus expended to be collected from the com- pany. It is provided that the 5th section of the act of August 2, relating to the recip- Tocal trackage arrangement by the Metro- politan and other railroad companies, shall be amended by adding paragraphs providing that any suburban railroad company in the District connecting with any urban road may have a reasonable aumber of trail cars drawn over the urban road, the schedule and number of cars to be drawn and com- pensation therefor to be settled by the companies, or, in the event of dispute, by the Supreme ‘Court of the District. ‘The urban road, however, shall not collect fares except from such passengers as board the cars upon its own line. This provision is not to affect existing rights acquired by contract or under any order of court. County Roads. For repairing county roads $49,000 is given, with the provisten that this shall be available for all county roads except such as are rendered useless by the opening or improving of rew highways established under the sct of March 2, 1893. For the constrvetion of county roads sums are given as follcws: $10,000 for gracing aud regulating Sherman avenue, Roanoke and Irving streets, provided that from this appropriation the buildings and fences on the Garfield Hcspital ground and other premises abutting on Sherman ave- nue between Grant and Princeton streets shall ke removed, but nothing shall be ex- pended on Sherman averue until the own- ers of the property shall dedicate enough ground to widen that avenue to conform to the highway extension plan; $75,000 for the removal of the brick building at the northeast corter of the Garfield Hospital grounds ard constructing another building on those grounds to take its place; $5,000 for continuing the improvement of Cclum- tia roa}.16th street extended, Prospect,Cres- cent, Superior, Erle and Central streets and Meridian end Ontario avenues on Meridian Hill; $10,000 for grading Massachusetts av- enue exter ded; $9,000 for grading and grav- eling Alberarle street and opening it to the Grant road; $5,000 for grading IMinois avenue; $8,000 for grading and graveling Pierce and High streets from Jefferson to Maple, provided that the land necessary to unite these streets be first dedicated; $0,000 to pay the fees in the case of the exten sion of 37th street between Back street and Tenleytown road;-$10,000 for improving Connecticut avenue extended beyond Rock creek; $5,000 for continuing the macada- mizing the road from the Broad Branch road to the Chevy Chase Circle, and the Commissioners are authcrized to convey to the origital owners any portion of that road upon receiving an equivalent in con- formity with the new plan of highways; $17,000 for grading and regulating Yale, Bismarck, Princeton, Harvsrd and Colum- bia streets between 7th srd lth streets, making the total appropriation for county roads of $90,500. The Commissiorers are required to ex- amine into the proposed extension of Con- necticut avenue from Florida avenue to the District line, and report to Congress at the next session the compsrative advantages and disadvantages ard cost of opening the avenue on a straight line, instead of on a deflected line, such as has been heretofore adopted, ard is now on file; and they are directed to issue no building permits on the ground that will be covered by either ex- tension. For street cleaning the appropriation is $130,500, and for cleaning snow and ice from the crosswalks and gutters, $1,000; $20,000 are given for the parking commis- sion. Pablic Lighting. For public gas lighting the appropriation is $150,000, and it is previded that no more than $20 per annum per lamp shall be paid for the service. Ail the lamps shall burn every night on the average from forty-five minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise. Before any expenditures are made from this appropriation the gas companies shall equip each street lamp with a self-regulating burner and tip ad- justed to secure a consumption of five cubic feet an hour. For electric arc lighting in the streets the apprepriation is $50,000, and not more than thirty cents per night shall be paid for each are lamp burning throughout the same period as the gas lamps, and operat- ed wholly by means of underground wires. Each arc light shall be of not less than 1,000 candle power. The Commissioners are allowed, under such restrictions as they may prescribe, to authorize any ex- isting electric light company having over- head wires to maintain and use its exist- ing poles and wires for eight months, and no longer, west of Rock creek, in places outside of the existing fire limits of the District and the city; and such overhead wire system may be extended west of Rock creek and outside of the fire limits, to continue only for eight months. At the end of that time all right or authority conferred by the paragraph ceases. The Commissioners may also authorize any ex~ isting electric Hght company to construct conduits for the reception of existing over> head wires in Georgetown, and to extend them by an aggregate of not more than a mile and one-quarter. And the United States Electric Lighting Company may ex- tend its conduits and wires east of Rock Creek within the fire limits to Mt. Pleas- ant, and Washington and Columbia Heights, under the regulations of the Com- missioners. For the improvement of the harbor and river frent the appropriation is fixed at $2,600. The sum of $1,250 is given for re- pairs to the harbor boat. For the care of the bathing beach $1,000) is given, and in addition $4,000 is appropriated for the pur- pose of adapting the inner basin on the Potomae flats for a public bathing pool. For the care of public scales, $200; for the care of the public dumps, for filling aban- doned wells and drilling deep wells, $5, tor the care of bridges, $3,500; for constru tion and repair of bridges, $10,000. For the general maintenance of the aque- duct, 320,000; for inserting air valves and blow-offs ir. the 36-inch and 20-inch mains, $5,000. Public Schools. Under the head of public schools, ap- propriations are made for 1,071 teachers with a provision that in assigning salaries no discrimination shall be made between inale and female teachers employed in the same grade and school and performing a lke class of duties. For the rent of small buildings and rooms for school purposes the sum of $4,176 is given; for the rent of cther school buildings and repair shops, $13,100; for repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $32,000; for the pur- chase of tools for the manual training in- struction, $9,000; for fuel, $35,000; for con- tingent expenses, $28,000; for ‘furniture, $4,000; for text books and schooi supplies for free distribution, $39,000; for recon- structing the Wailach school, $22,000; for eight-room building in the rertheast, $39,- 000; for reconstruction of the Anthony Bowen school, $300,000; for new four-room building at Langdon, $8,000; new two-room Luilding on the line of Connecticut avenue extended, $8,000; reconstruction of Stevens Luilding, $6,000; for site and toward the construction of new Western High School, total cost of which is rot to exceed $100,- 000, $50,000. . A contract is authorized for the con- struction of an eight-room building at Giesboro’, to cost rot more than $21,000, and the appropriation of $8,000 for a new four- room building on the Conduit road of a year ago is extended to the coming fiscal year. It is provided that the total cost of the site and the building provided for in the bill shall not exceed the sums appropriated ned. ‘The plans and specifications cf the buildings provided for in the not only for schools, but for other act, purposes, shall be prepared by the inspec- tor of buildings, and shall be approved by the architect of the Capitol and the Dis- trict Commissicners. $1,000 is given for the purchase of national flags, one to be flown on each public school house in the District during school heurs. The Police Department. Under the head of the police and police department the organization is fixed at one major and superintendent, one captain, three lieutenants, at $1,500; nine lieuten- ants, at $1,320; thirty-one sergeants, at $1,110; 286 privates, at $900; 194 privates, at $1,080; twenty stationkeepers, at $720, &c.; making a total appropriation for the police force of $576,940, with the provision that the Commissioners are directed to deposit with the treasurer of the United States out of receipts from fines in the Police Court a sufficient amount to meet any deficiency in the police fund or firemen’s relief fund. Each member of the police force is granted twenty days’ leave with pay. The appropriation for miscellaneous ex- penses in the police department ts fixed at 319,500. Other items follow: For extend- ing the patrol system, $3,500; for a light ambulance, $350; for repairs’ to stations, $2,000; for rent of substation at Anacosti:., $200; for fuel, $2,200. The Fire Department. Under the head of the fire department the organization is fixed as follows: Chief ergineer, $2,000; fire marshal, $1,000; ‘clerk, $000; two assistant chiefs, at $1,200 each; fifteen foremen, at $1,000; ten engineers, at $1,000; ten firemen, at $840; four tillermen, at $840; sixteen hostlers, at $840; 101 pri- vates, at $800; eight watchmen, at $600; in all, $142,100. It is provided that the Commissioners shall deduct $1 a month from the pay of each fireman for a relief fund, to be invested in bonds and to be used for the relief of any fireman who, after a year’s service, shall, in line of duty, become so permanently disabled as to be discharged, or to care for his widow and children under sixteen in case of death in line of duty. This relief shall not exceed in any one case more than $50 per month, and $75 may be allowed from the fund to defray the expenses of the fireman dying in line of duty. Other items of appropriation for this de- partment are as follows: Repairs to engine houses, $3,500; repairs to apparatus, $3,000; purchase of hose, $7,000; fuel, $3,000; pur- chase of horses, $6,000; forage, $8,000; con- tingent expenses, $8,000, for house, lot and furniture for new company in the vicinity of North Capitol street and Florida avenue, $23,000; for new engine, $4,200; hose car- Tiage, $000; to exchange old-style straight- frame engine for modern upright, $3,500; 1ew engine to be placed in house at Mt. Pleasant, $4,200; house, lot and furniture in the vicinity of Brightwood for the chem- ical now at Mt. Pleasant, $15,500. The Commissioners are directed to report to Congress at the next session what charges are made in the District to the public and the government for the use of telephones and the relative charges made for telephones in other cities operated by underground and overhead wires. There are no changes in the appropria- oe for the telephone and telegraph servy- ice. The Health Department. Under the health department the follow- ing organization is authorized: Health of- ficer, $2,000; nine inspectors at $1,200, san- itary Inspector, who shall also ba a chem- ist, $1,500; inspector of live stock and dairy farms, $1,200; inspector of marine products, $1,200; chiof clerk, $1,800; clerk, $1,400; four clerks at $1,200, two of whom may also act as Inspectors; clerk, $1,000; janitor, $600; poundmaster, $1,200; laborers, | 312205 driver, $480; in all, $80,900, Other items under the health department a1 Rent of stuble, $120; collection of garbage, dead animals and the distribution, $57,000; enforcement of the act to prevent the spread of scarlet fever and diphtheria, $5,000; for ambulance for contagious dis- eases, $350. Under the head of the Police Court the following items are appropriated: For two judges, at $3,000 each; two jus- tices of the peace, acting as judges of the Police Court during the absence of said judges, not exceeding $300 each; clerk, $2,000; one deputy clerk, $1,500; two dep- uty clerks, at $1,000 each; three bailiffs, at $8 per day each, $2,817; one deputy mai shal, at $3 per day, $939; messenger, $000 coarneerer, $540; engincer, $900; In all, For United States marshal’s fees, $1,400 for witness fees, $7,000, for repairs of P< lice Court building, $700; for reprirs to Police Court, furniture and repairing s-.me, $200; for rent of property adjoining Police Court building for Police Court and other purposes, $600; for compensation for jury, $8,000; in all, $16,900. For defending suits in the United States Court of Claims, $2,000; to defray the expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico in- auirendo in cases of indigent tnsane per- sons committed to the Government Hos- pital for the Insane, $2,000. é Interest and Sinking Fund: For. interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, exclusive of water bonds, $1,213,47.97 1s appropriated. The Commiesioners’ emergency fund for riot, pestilence, flood, fire, etc., is fixed at $8,000; the amount for the care and trans- portation is fixed at $45,000; for the care and protection of the court’ house, $12,130 is given, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. The salary of the warden of the jail is fixed at $1,800, also to be expended under the direction of the At- torney General; for maintaining the jail the allowance is $45,000; for transportating paupers and prisoners to the work house, $2,500; for the Washington Asylum, $16, 163; for contingent expenses at the asylum, $44,000; for repairs of alms house and work house, $1,000; for central heating sta- tion for the hospital department, $4,000 for the reform school, $16,240; for the sup- port of the inmates, $26,000; for the support of the insane at St. Elizabeth's, $104,049; for the instruction of the deaf and dumb, $10,500. The Charities Schedule. The charities schedule as agreed upon in conference is as follows: For relief of the Foor, $13,000; for temporary home for ex- Union soldiers and sailors, Grand Army of the Republic, $2,500; for tre Women’s Chrisdan Association, maintenance, $4,000; for Central Dispensary und Eniergency Hospital, maintenance, $15,000; for the Children’s Hospital, maintenance, $10,000; for the National Homeopathic Hospital Association of Washington, District of Columbia, for maintenance, $8,300; for the Washington Hospitel for Foundlings, main- tenance, $6,000; for the Church Orphanage Association of St. John’s Parish, maint nance, $1,800; for the German Orphan Asy- lum, maintenance, $1,800; for the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Col- ored Women ané Children, maintenance, including repairs, $9,000; for St. Ann's In: fant Asylum, mainterance, $5,100; for As- scelation for Werks of Mercy, maint Tance, $1,800; for House of the Good Shep- herd, maintenance, $2,700; for the St. Rose Industrial School, maintenance, $4,500; for St. Joseph's Asylum, maintenance, $1,Si for Young Women's Christian Home, $1 600; for Hope and Help Mission, maint: rance, $1,000; for Newsboys’ and Children’s Aid Society, mairterance, $1,000; for East- ern Dispensary, maintenance, $1,000; for Washington Home for Incurables, main- tenance, $2,000; municipal lodging house and wood and store yard, including rent, 34,000; for the Coiumbia Hospital for W men and Lying-In Asylum, maintenance, $20,000; for repairs to building, 35,000; in all, $25,000, Provided, That no member or members of any board or boards of trustees or directors of any charitable in- stitution, orgenization or corporation in the District of Columbia, which is sup- perted in whole or in part by appropria- tions made by Congress, shall engage in traffic with said institution, organization or corporation for financial gain, and any member or members of such board of trus- tees or directors who shall so engage in such traffic sl all be deemed now and here- after legally disqualified for service on sald beard or boards. Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum—For subsistence, $22,500; for salaries, $16,000; for rent of hospital huildings and grounds, $4,000; for miscellaneous expenses, $11,500. Reform school for girls—For salaries, $4,- 125; for necessary items, $5,500. Industrial Home Scl.col—For mainte- nance (including repairs), $9,900, provided that the board of managers of the Indus- trial Home School, on or before the 30th day of June, 1896, shall transfer said school to the Ccmmissioners of the District of Co- lumbia, and said Commissioners shall thereupon appoint a bcard of trustees of said school, consisting of nine members, whose terms ef office shall be: For the first appeintment, three members for one year, three members for two years and three members for three years, and thereafter all appointments shall be for a term of three years, except appointments to fill out unexpired terms. The Lcard of trustees so appointed by the Commissioners shall man- age the school under such regulations as now exist or may hereafter be made by said board, subject to the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. All designations for employment in said school made by said board of trustees shall be subject to the approval of the Com: sioners of the District of Cclumbia, and, in the event of disapproval by sald Commis- sloners of any selection by said board of trustees, the said Commissioners shall make the sppointment. All supplies for said schoel shall be obtained by requisition upon sald Commissioners, and all moneys received at said sclcol as income thereof from sale of products and from payments for beard and instructicn, or otherwise, shall be paid over to said Commissioners, to be exp2aded by them for the support of the school, as herein provided. For the board of children’s guardians— Administrative expenses, $4,000; for care of childrea, $23,400. The Investigating Committee. A joint select committee is created, con- sisting of three Senators and three Repre- sentatives, to investigate the charities and reformatory institutions of the District and to ascertain all the facts in relation to thelr means of support and methods of work and to report whether they are ef- fective and whether it is practical for the Commissioners to make contracts for the care of the poor and destitute within the Hmits of a policy declared as follows: “And It is hereby declared to be the pol- icy of the governmtnt of the United States to make no appropriation of money or property for the purpose of founding, maintaining, or aiding by payment for services, expenses, or otkerwice, any church ‘or religious denomination or any insittution or society which is under sec- tarlan or eccleslastical control. And it {s hereby enacted that from and after the 40th day of June, 1897, no money appro- priated for charitable purposes in the Dis- iriet of Columbla shall be paid to any church or religious denomination or to any institution or soclety which is under sec- tarian or ecclesiastical control.” The committee is to report at the next session, being authorized to sit during re- cess. District Militia. The total appropriation for the District militia 1s $27,525, and it 1s provided that hereafter all leases and contracts in- volving expenditures on account of the militia shall be made by the District Com- missioners, and appropriations shall be dis- Lursed only upon vouchers authorized by the Commissioners, for which they shall be held strictly accountable. The Water Department. The total appropriation for the water department is $193,493.69, and is to be paid wholly from the revenues of that depart- ment. This includes szlaries, interest and the expenses of maintenance and exten- sions. In addition to that amount the sum cf $300,000 of the surplus general revenues of the District remaining July 1, of this year, is transferred to the water fund in full payment of the belance of the prin- cipal of the debt incurred for the 48-inch and 14th street mains, and in part of the principal of the debt incurred for increas- ing the water supply under the act of 1882. Harold’s Compliment. From the Detroit Free Press. “Harold, our new girl spends all her time talking with agents!” “That comes of her being so good look- ing.” ‘Well, I carnot afford to have her frit- ter her time Hke that.” “Then, my dear, why not see those peo- Ple yourself.” A STUBBORN FIGHT dort History of the.Conference on the District Bill. HOW THE TUNNEL ITEM WAS LOS? No Compromise Was the Motto of, the House. HOPE FOR NEXT YEAR It was announced in the House Wednes- day that the District approrriation bill which became a law yesterday carried the Jargest amount of morey appropriated for such a measure for several years. Accord- ing to a table submitted by Chairman Can- non of the House committee on appropria- tions in his speech reviewing the session, delivered We/nesday, the estimates for the District submitted at the beginning of the session aggregated $7,706,405.22, January 30 the appropriations committee reported tke bill to the House carrying a total of $5,417,000.39. April 9 the House passed the hill, having increased the appropriation just $1,000. May 8 the Senate committce on appropriations reported tie bill to the Serate carrying $,963,508.86. May 19 the hill passed the Senate carrying $7,285,139.42. Thus there wus difference in the bill as it passed the House and as it passed the Sehate of $1,806,179.03, the bill then going into conference to adjust this_difference. In the conference, as stated by Mr. Grout, the Serate yielded $1,3X0,056.04, and the House yielded $186,122/09, leaving the ag- gregate of appropriations for the fiscal year of 1896-07, $5,005,08248, as against a total in the current appropriation bill of $5,745,443.25, a net increase in favor of next year of $159,630.23. The Last to Be Approved. ‘The District bill this year enjoys the somewhat questlorable distinction of hav- ing been the last of the regular budgets to receive the presidential approval. This was undoubtedly caused by the unfortu- rate course of the bill during its early stages. It was one of the first to be re- ported to the House, and the people of the District were congratulating themselves upon the fact, for it is the rule that the early bills fare better than do the later ores, when the emergencies caused by the closing of the session often result in com- promises and trades that are not wholly atisfactory to the beneficiaries under the basis noounlessinwelibremenrbe ret athe District bill reached the House when that boay was In a radical attitude tuward all sectarian questions, and the charitable schedule of the mez e was made the object of attack by tain Representa- tives, with the result that after being amended in the most extreme manner it was actually defeated on the final vote and recommitted with the instructions to the committee on appropriations to ritable schedule to meet wishes of a large ma- jority of the House opposed to direct and specific appropriations for charities and reformatory institutions connected in any way with churches or religious bodies. A Long Delay. The bill remained in committee for a long time, being considerably more than two months before it was finally ‘passed, after it had been reporied the first time. It ther went to the Senate, where, as is the rule with stch matters, an effort was made to more closély conform the bill to the estimates of the District Comm ers, in order to make the appropriation meet the necessitiés of the local govérn- ment as far as possible. As inuicated by Chairman Cannon's figures, this was par- tially accomplished, and this liberal move- ment wag continued in the Senate ttself, so that the conferees on the bill, Senators Teller, Alisa’ anf Cockrell and Repre- sentatives"«Grout, Pitney and Dockery, were conffoated with the difficult task of recenciling’ iHé! difference of nearly $2,000- 000 in the’ totals of the bill as passed by the House and by the Senate. ‘The bill lost some of its most important features in conferenée. One of these was the provision for the completion of the aqueduct tunnel, That item was stricken out in conference after cne of the most stubborn and prolonged fights ever waged in a conference committee. The story of that conference will doubt- less never be fully told, but The Star is able today to give an outline of the gen- eral manner in which It was conducted as throwing light upon the extreme dif- ficulties that confronted the Senate con- ferees, whose liberal intentions toward the District were practically thwarted by the refusal of the House conferees to yield. readjust the ¢ the very evident The Act of 1878. This conference above all others empha- sized the fact that the members of the House have fallen into the habit of re- garding the District under the operations of the organic act of 1878 as being an ar- nual applicant fcr alms from the national treasury. The fifty per cent clause is oc- castonally antagonized by members of the House, but, fortunately, there is a nor- mal majority always to hand to defeat any movement toward a repeal of that pro- vision of law. On the Senate side it is different. There the act of 1876 is looked upon as an equitable arrangement neces- sary and economical. It was really found- ed upon a report made in 1874 by Mr. Al- Mson, chairman of the committee on ap- propriations, then serving his second year in the Senate, and to this day Mr. Allison looks upon it as entitled to the most pro- found regard, and he resists any effort to ignore it or to give t a practical repeal In any instance. It is thought that perhaps one of the causes leading to the difference in the at- titudes cf the members of the House and of the Senate toward the District is the great- er frequency ot the changes in the House among those who have direct dealings with the local appropriations, thus giving rise to a constant shifting of individual opin- ions, whereas in the Senate the greater fixity of personnel tends to the other direc- tion, An Attitude of Antagonixm. Whatever the cause may be the fact is that the House conferees this year went to the Senate on the assumption that the Dill had been extravagantly padded, and that many of the items added by the up- per house were wholly unnecessary. The conference opened with the declaration that under no circumstances would the House agree to the amendment of the Sen- ate, numbered 105, providing for the com- pletion of the aqueduct tunnel and ap- propriating $260,546.38 out of the surplus general revenues of the District, in addi- tion to an equal amount being the balance remaining unexpended from a former ap- propriation act. This ultimatum was ad- hered to at every stage of the conference. The House confereés gave as their reason fcr objecting to- the amendment that they had not officially tavestigated the project. This was met; with a statement that the amendment wag based upon a report made by the Secretaty of War and the chief of engineers, accompanied by the findings of an expert board’ of engineers especially or- dered by Congress, at the last session to make a survey. This document had been presented to both houses, but had not been taken up by the House of Representative: although it was filed early in the session. The Senate cofiferees urged that the Sen- ate had carefully investigated the project through the District and appropriations committees, and that the appropriation contained in the amendment represented an absolute necessity and involved no danger of failure or of additional scandal. Gen. Casey Cited. The House conferees then brought for- ward the assertion that the project of the aqueduct tunnel had never been approved by Gen. Casey, the late chief of engineers of the army, but that that eminent officer, who had unfortun&tely passed beyond the jurisdiction of the committee, had pre- ferred a gravity conduit near the sur- fece. In addition to this they declared that in their opinion there was no umme- diate necessity for additional water sup- ply, notwithstanding the fact that the Commissioners nad representel a water famine as among the possibilities cf the near future. The War Department had also cited this as a powerful reason for the speedy increase of the supply, and there was no lack of positive testimony to’ show that in some parts of the District in the high ground th> present supply Is de- cidedly inadequate and at times Janger- ously insufficient. When the Hous2 con- ferees assumed this attitude a proposition was made that the engineer @epartmen: of the District government should be called upon for information, and anticipating such a call, Capt. Burr, Maj. Powel!’s assistant at the District building, went to the Capi- tol, but the House conferecs refused to hear him, stating that nothing could change their decision, but that the aqueduct tun- nel amendment must go from the bill. At the same time hey had been resisting ractically every amendment made hy the enate with an unusual amount of stub- bornness, and item after item was stricken from the bill with little or no reason, ex- cept that the House did not propose to permit the appropriation. This opposition began with amendment No. 1 and continued to amendment 204, the last in the bill. Curlously cnough the Senate was forced to ee from both the beginning and the end. A Compromise Rejected. Notwithstanding the declaration of the House conferees in regard to the aqueduct tunnel, that amendment was retained until the last conference, it being the hope of the Senate managers that if the amendment could not be preserved in its entirety, some compromise might be reached whereby the completion of the tunnel should be author- ized and a part of the money proposed ap- propriatei to begin the work. When such a proposition was advanced, the House con- ferees rejected it promptly, saying that in the absence of an official inquiry on their part they would not consent even to an in- Girect authorization of the resumption of the work. They proposed as the only com- promise to which they would agree that the bill should be amended by the insertion of a substitute paragraph providing for # still further survey of the tunnel and the project for its completion, this being, in ef- fect, a plan to go over the same sround that was covered by the expert beard pro- vided for in the last appropriation bill. The Senate con’ere:s rejected this idea as a use- less and a superfluous plan, in view of the exhaustive report already on file. They de- ciared that they would rather leave the Guestion entirely open than to pass such a reproach upon the Secretary of War and the chief of engineers. This, however, was the nearest approach the House conferees ever made to an agree- ment. Toward the end of the conference they reminded the Senate conferees of their declaration at the beginning of the ses- sions, when they had pronounced against the aqueduct tunnel, and as there was ab- solutely no sign of weakening on their part, and as the experience with other items in the bill had not been encouraging, the Sen- ate conferees finally yielded, with the feel- ing, however, as The Star is now credibly informed, and as the remarks of Repre- sentative Grout in the +House Wednesday clearly indicate, that the completion of the tunnel and the consequent increase of the supply will be authorized in the next strict bill, and that the item for that pur- pose will be inserted in the bill by the House committee on appropriations. Cer- tainly, if this is done, the matter will not be resisted by the Senate or by the con- ferees. Other Dixputes Easily Settled. This controversy settled, the next mat- ters to come prominently into dispute were the charities amendments and the items relating to electric light. The House com- plicat.! the situation with regard to the latter by adopting a new provision -hat was almost direct legislation in behalf of a certain company. The Senate conferecs could obtain from the Senate itself no distinct instructions in reference to this amendment, and the result was that a compromise was worked out whereby both the new and the old electric Nght com- panies were satisfied and the rights of the citizens were protected. This was one of the few satisfactory compromises reached in confer@ce. A way had been opened to an agreement on the local charities ques- tion by action of the conferees on the Indian appropriation bill, so that by stipu- lating that the specific appropriations should not be made beyond the end of the next fiscal year and by broadening the powers of the joint commission proposed by the Senate an agreement was casily at- tained. TOWED BY A TANDEM OF WALES. An Exciting Defense of a Youngster by Its Mother. Monterey Cor. of the San Francisco Examiner. ‘The town talks blu‘yber, and is begiaaing to smell of it. Though it is nearly a week since Captain Pedro caught his twain of whales—cow and calf, he calls them~-Mon- terey has not exhausted the subject. From Del Monte to Paciic Grove one hears of little else. Captain Pedro knows all about whales, for he has handicd a harpoon for thirty-one years. And the resumption of operations at this point, where he has estab- Hshed himself in the saloon business as a side line, fills him with the conviction that Monterey yet has a future before her. His recent exploit in capturing a pair with one line, he deciares, was merely in the way of practice, and 1s only an indication of what he hopes to do when the whaling season opens in the fall. He had completed his preparations, he explains, and a school of hungry “hump- backs” happening into the bay in quest of sardines, he took a tug at them. But it was not such an offhand matter by any manner of means, for, as a fact, the cow and her calf gave Pedro and his crew a mess of trouble, and they knew when it was all over that they had been “‘a-whaling.” Last Monday a school of a dozen or more whales came into the bay, blowing and spouting at different points. The sight made Pedro ambitious to give his green crew a chance to try their hands, and he ordered out one of the two boats with which the newly established whaling station is equipped. After considerable trouble the captain rounded up an infant whale—a sea calf. The momentum of the boat was checked, there was an instant’s pause, then a splash, and the harpoon struck home. Captain Pedro anticipated little resistance. The whale was too young to make much of a fight, and he felt sure of an easy victory. He failed, however, to figure on the cow, which was lurking near her offspring. Like a flash she was off to the rescue, and before the skipper could prevent she had entangled her flukes in the rope attached to the harpoon. Straight for the open sea, at a speed of fifteen miles an hour, the pair of whales headed; and the Pacific, still tor. mented by the storm of the previous days, was rough and choppy, making the sita tion as a whole a trying one for a crew of green whalers. One of them implored the captain to cut the rope, but old Pedru, with. out deigning to reply, watched from his vantage point In the bow of the boat for the inevitable slackening of ire muse come iz of the line that he nd it did, after the boat had bee: for two miles and was abreast of the tight house on the point. As cautiously af an angler would handle a trout, the slack was taken in, and they were soon close upon the exhausted pair, when two shots from the bembgun placed the cow and calf out of In a few days there will be three-s barrels or more of crude oll on the way to the refining works at San Francisco, and Monterey will have seen the last of Cap-ain Pedro's first killing in this bay. : —___—_s-___ FIRST BICYCLE IN AMERICA, A Baltimorean Introduced It in This Country. From the Cincinnat! Commercial Gazette, It is a fact uot generally known that the first man to introduce a bicycle in this country was Mr. Thomas W. Lawford, who came to this country in 1870 as Bri:- ish vice consul. Mr. Lawford died in Vir- ginia last year, aged eighty-nine years. There are many people in Baltimore who remember Mr. Lawford. He induced a firm of wheel manufacturers at Coventry, England, to send an exhibit to this country for the exposition, and he took charge of it during the centennial. At the close of the big show he tcok the exhibit to Balti- more and established there the first bicy- cle agency in this country. The present safety wheel was not in uso at that time. The bicycles were of the old wagon-wheel style. ui Mr. Lawford, nctwithstanding his ad- vanced years, rode a tricycle himself, and he was the first to run the machines in this country. His appearance on the street invariably created a sensation, and he was always followed by crowds of children, who greatly admired his performance. To older people Mr. Lawford was equally a revelation, and few who saw him then ever thought that the “silent steed” would be- come so popular and ueeful. Mr. Lawford was usually accompanied by a big setter dog. Crcewds congregated whenever he made his appearance. Tomorrow is the tract unusual attention: 50c. For 75c. Values. Infants’ Pretty Tan or Black Sendals. Infants’ Tan and Black Buttoa. o 3 @ @ 3 9 8 4 3 re) @ 6 e « Child's 4 to 8 Spring-heel Button. 5 75C- ) 8 _ For $1 Values. Misses’ and Child’s Black, Tan or White Kid Sandals, Chllaren’s Patent Leather sSandale, Cond's 5 to 10% § © Tan Taced and @_51.00 @For $1.25 and $1.50Values re Ladies’ Sizes Spring-heel Hand-sewed Dongo Sadals, 9 S 9 @ @ jendid-wearit futton Boots. Boys’ and Youths’ Pat. Leather Ties. Minses” Handsome Patent Leather and Fine Chocolate Kid Sandals, @ @ 1914 AND 1816 PEYNA. AVE. AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN Entire West End Wrapped in Darkness Last Night. Disorderly Conduct and Other Local Notes of Interest to All Classes of Citizens. The entire West End was wrapped in Egyptian darkness last night through the failure of the electric lights to work prop- erly. Though the gas lamps were lit on the side streets, M street and 3 street, the principal thoroughfares, were without illu- mination, The lights were lit all right in the early part of the evening, but went out about 10 o'clock, and remained so all siight. The cause ts attributed to the breaking and grounding of the wires in the under- ground conduit which furnish the iumi- rating fluid for this part of the city. Disorderly Conduct. Thomas Williams, colored, aged twenty- three, was arresied this morning by Pollce- man Harry Lohman on a charge of disor- derly conduct. The negro was working on a beer delivery wagon when arrested. He was one of a gang shooting crap last Sun- day in an alley in Prospect avenue, be- tween 37th and 3hth streets, who succeeded in escaping at the time tne police appeared at the game. Several more arrests are apt to follow. Temperance Union. The Young Women’s Christian Temper- ance Union of Georgetown will hold a social meeting Monday evening, June 15, at 8 o'clock at the Congress Street M. P. Church. Mrs. Margaret B. Platt and Mrs. Clayton Emig will be the speakers of the evening. To those who attend good music and an enjoyable evening is promised. Notes. Mr. Rossie Welch of 3307 N street, while crossing Pennsylvania avenue, just west of 15th street, yesterday afternoon, was run over by a reckless driver, who was subse- quently arrested. Mr. Welch was injured about the body and head, and his wheel broken. He was carried home in a cab. The Junior Epworth League of the Dum- barton Avenue M. E. Church will hold a Japanese and Chinese bazaar and enter- tainment this evening, in the lecture hall of the church, commencing at 8 o'clock. The Capital ‘Traction Railway Company has been given permission by the Commis- sioners to construct and operate a tem- porary switch in front of the union depot on M street. The feast of the sacred heart, which oc- curs today in the calendar of the Catholic Church, was appropriately observed at Trinity’ Church. The blessed sacrament was exposed all day, and this evening no- vena services will be read. Postmaster Wm. A. Hutching has left on a trip to Norfolk, thence to Pittsburg and New York. He will remain away several weeks. The festival and lawn party given last evening at St. Gabriel’s Church, near Great Fails, Md., proved to be a very successful affair. ————— THE FIRST CARRIAGE IN MAINE. How a Minister Came to Buy It and Why He Sold It From the Lewiston (Me) Journ Tie Rev. Francis Winter was a native of Boston and a graduate of Harvard College. He came to Bath early in 1767, and, after preaching on probation for the Orthodox Church, was invited to settle, which invi- tation he accepted. He was ordained in the autumn of the same year. He came to Bath on horseback, in company with Lem- uel Standish. Mr. Winter came from Bos- ton, where he had associated with such eminent men as Adams, Otis and Warren, himself becoming an ardent patriot, taking the lead in the revolutionary measures adopted in Bath during that memorable period. Mr. Winter married Miss Abigail Alden in 1768, and it is through her that the Win- ters of today trace their ancestry back to the “Puritan maiden of Plymouth.” Three years after the marriage of the Rev. Francis Winter and Abigail Alden, they started to visit a sister of Mrs. Win- ter, living in Connecticut, and intended to ride all the way on horseback, but Mrs. Winter became so fatigued that Mr. Win- ter sold one of the horses for a carriage and harness. It was the first carriage that ever came into Maine, and was called a chaise. Traveling was so difficult that two negroes were employed to accompany them with shovels and axes to clear the road. Several times the chaise had to be taken apart and lifted over fallen trees. The minister's parishioners thought that it was putting on too much style for their pastor to ride in a carriage, and in consequence Mr. Winter sold it. This was in 1771. It was a two-wheeled chaise, the body resting on leather thorough braces, which were at- tached to wooden springs. ee His Infirmity. From the Chicago Tribune. “Absalom,” said Mrs. Rambo, “have you time to take this carpet out and— “Don’t ek me to de anything to that carpet, Nancy,” responded Mr. Rambo. want to rest.” “I think you're always wanting to rest when I ask you to do zeny little job about the house,” wrathfully rejoined Nancy. “You'd be werth a good deal to a bicycie maker.’ “Why, my dear?” “Because you've got an everlasting tire on you!”. Whereat Mr. Rambo exploded in a loud guffaw. Wim. Hahn & Co.’s Reliable Shoe Houses, 990 AND 22 SEVENTH STREET. @ @SSSSS6 SE65 COOSSSOSS A Shoe Carnival For the Little Folks. beginning of our A. OF CHILDREN’S SUMMER FOOTWEAR. Parents who wish to fit out their children for the school closing exercises will find here a larger and hand- somer variety of pretty Summer Shoes than are shown by any other 5 local houses put together—and here are some figures for these great Shoe values that we know will at- VNUAL SALE $1.25 For $1.50and $1.75 Values Misses” Best Black Viel Ku Sandals and Oxtord ‘Ties, rk Tun Roots Fils and Boys of all sizes, $1.50 For $2 Values. Koys’ and Youths’ Hand-sewed Tan or Black Viel Kid Oxfords. SOICSSSSSOOI DS OOO Ladies’ Stzee Kid and Patent Leatis Child's Ch heal Finest ‘Tien or Sandals. htop 1 $2.00 For $2.50 Values. Boys’ Tan Geruine Raswla Calf Veuy Stylish Laced Shoes, Misses’ and Youths’ Imported Patent Leather Boots. t. Leather Boots, Finest Boots, ing id Laced Pay SSOQOCSDESIISIIIO GOLDENBERG’S, 926-928 7th—-706 K St. What a busy day the morrow will be if the weather is propitious, We've done our best to make it profitable shopping. We've gone right through the sec= ond floor, where the suits are and the skirts and silk waists and shirt waists and parasols, and we've picked out specially good ones and marked them at specially low prices. If you're a judge of values—know the prices around town for similar qualities, you'll say at once that ours are priced very low—and much lower than others. Shirt Waists. At 44¢. each ,tauutemt rose me worth 73e.—with lange @eeves, high collar and tn rgant patterns, At soc. eac dark end light back, largest ste Taundered Por cle and Lawn Waist, im patterns—iigh collars, and worth $1 At 9o5c. each rim Laundered Pere cale, Dimity and 1, yoke and Linen Waiste, with attachable or deteche able collars—some plain. collar arg tect largest sleeves. high collar and worth Wrapper Bargains. pers, whieh bave will ‘go at ; _49c. each, Rin hoop rah down te waist, and the skiriws Perstan Striped Lawn and Polka Dot. Riack and Navy Satue Wranpers well. mad very and worth $1.30, "For mide au g8c. each. Skirts and Suits, Brocaded Mu Toned and velvet extra wide. Re fine quality. Reduce@ $1.25 each. a tin Mined Wa: stiffened akin. Mevtuvedl $4.98 each. Your chotee of our All-wool Mixed Blac Navy Serge or Covert Cloth Suite. sere eae skirts and exceedingly styl ned which have ly for ‘selling a $6.85 cach. bite Shepherd Check Line A from $1 each, Duck Voce Skirt, Tan Mixed and Duck Navy Striped Blazer Suits—worth $3. omy et ad with bine and black Li sa tho oe = a “3 raid, large sailor ar. $3.98 each. Parasol Bargains. White China Sik Parasols, nelod and slik tassel. Worth Slav, ‘Tene ato 98e. each. Changeai tk Taffeta Parasols, tn rlety of handles—Dresdin and natural woo also White China SUK Parasols, with double ruffie, Worth $3 uly $1.98 each. Silk Waists. F a wrod ‘ToMteta Silk Wale with colored trier ahd iene, Male, very lishly made, and recently sold for $3.98 each. ’ Men’s Goods. 165 dozen Men's lars from @ manufactui @ quarter and a half a dozen of a kind—the usuai 15c. cole lar—sor 5c. cach. Men's Teck and Four-in-hand Silk Scarfs— the usual 25e, sort for 21c. each. Our best SOc. Shirts tomorrow’ at 39¢. each. aundered Linen Boson with attached cok men’s stores’ regular 75e, 50c. each, GOLDENBERG’S, 926-928 7th—706 K St. = ed The town of Topac, state of Jalisco, Mex- ico, was recently visited by a waterspout that detached from the sides of the moun- tain masses of rock and earth. Thirty per« sons are suposed to have lost their lives,