For a power tunnel between power plant and shops, $20,000; For a building to contain the planning room and inspector's office, $16,000; For a fire-alarm system, $10,000; For replacing roof of building containing hardening plant, $8,600; In all, $1,021,100. Foundry. Watertown Arsenal, testing machines: For necessary professional Testing machines. and skilled labor, purchase of materials, tools, and appliances for operating the testing machines, for investigative test and tests of material in connection with the manufacturing work of the Ordnance Department, and for instruments and materials for operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, $15,000. Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York: Watervliet, N. Y. Reappropriation. For additional amount for improvement of large gun shop, $156,000; and siege gun shop for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, is made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen; For increasing storage capacity for fuel oil, $2,100; For improving electric locomotive and the railraod track, $4,000; For rebuilding dock and retaining wall on Hudson River front, and filling in low ground in rear thereof, $11,000; In all, $178,100. Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvement at arsenals, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including $160,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $400,000. For storage facilities at armories and arsenals, $1,000,000. QUARTERMASTER CORPS. The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to report to Congress on or before January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, as to the most desirable method for quartering officers and enlisted men of the Army, and to submit detailed plans and estimates of cost for the carrying out of any proposed scheme or schemes, together with locations desired and in particular what existing posts shall be retained, enlarged, or discontinued. Repairs, etc. Machinery. Storage facilities. Quartermaster Corps. Report to be made on best method for, etc. Quartering troops. Schofield Barracks, Military post, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii: For completion of the Hawaii. construction, at a total cost not exceeding $2,077,000, of the necessary buildings, water and sewer systems, roads, walks, and so forth, required to complete permanent accommodations not already provided for two regiments of Infantry, one regiment of Cavalry, and one regiment of Field Artillery, $1,077,000. Fort Monroe, Virginia, wharf, roads, and sewer: For repair and maintenance of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms, and water, brooms, and shovels, $2,430; repairs to apron of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, $3,930; wharfinger, $900; four laborers, $1,920; in all, $9,180; for one-third of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $3,060. Fort Monroe, Va. For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, Repairs to roads, etc. macadam and asphalt block; repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains, $2,170; six laborers cleaning roads, at $480 each; in all, $5,050; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $3,366.66. Sewer. Seacoast defenses, Hawaii, etc. National cemeteries. Superintendents. Headstones for soldiers' graves. 20, p. 281; Vol. 34, p. 56. For waste, oil, boiler repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, $1,400; two engineers, at $1,000 each; two laborers, at $500 each; in all, $4,400; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $2,933.33. For continuing construction of the necessary accommodations for the Seacoast Artillery in the Hawaiian Islands, and for temporary cantonments for over-sea garrisons, $93,000. NATIONAL CEMETERIES: For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, $120,000. For pay of seventy-six superintendents of national cemeteries, $63,120. For continuing the work of furnishing headstones of durable stone or other durable material for unmarked graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy yards and stations of the Vol. 17, p. 545: Vol. United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and March ninth, nineteen hundred and six; continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of civilians interred in post cemeteries under the Acts of April twenty-eight, nineteen hundred and four, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six; and furnishing headstones for the unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national cemeteries, $50,000. Civilians. Vol. 33, p. 396; Vol. 34, p. 741. Confederates. Repairs to roadways. railroads forbidden. For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been Encroachments by constructed by special authority of Congress, $12,000: Provided, That no railroads shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States: Provided further, That no part of this sum shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village. Restriction. Limited to one approach. Burial of indigent soldiers, etc., D. C. No part of any appropriation for national cemeteries or the repair of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance of more than a single approach to any national cemetery. For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding $45 for such burial expenses in each case, Half from District exclusive of cost of grave, $2,000, one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. revenues. Antietam battle field, Md. Preservation, etc. Superintendent. Interment of remains of officers, soldiers, etc. Antietam battle field: For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Antietam battle field, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, $3,000. For pay of superintendent of Antietam battle field, said superintendent to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, $1,500. Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, civilian employees, and so forth: For interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes or to such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper authority, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of the remains of officers, including acting assistant surgeons and enlisted men of the Army active list; interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes, of the remains of civil employees of the Army in the em remains from abandoned posts, Reimbursements to ploy of the War Department who die abroad, in Alaska, in the Canal Confederate Mound, Confederate For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate Stockade ade, Ohio. Cemetery, Johnstons Island in Sandusky Bay, Ohio, $250. Confederate Confederate burial plats: For care, protection, and maintenance of plats, care, etc. Confederate burial plats, owned by the United States, located and known by the following designations: Confederate cemetery, North Alton, Illinois; Confederate cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio; Confederate section, Greenlawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana; Confederate cemetery, Point Lookout, Maryland; and Confederate cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, $1,250. Stock burial Monuments in Cuba Monuments or tablets in Cuba or China: For repairs and preserva- and China. tion of monuments, tablets, roads, fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell, $1,000. Burial of deceased indigent patients: For burying in the Little Rock (Arkansas) National Cemetery, including transportation thereto, indigent ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die while patients at the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, to be disbursed at a cost not exceeding $35 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $200. NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS. Little Rock, Ark. Burial of soldiers dyingat Hot Springs Hos pital. Military parks. Chickamauga Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuing the Chattanooga." establishment of the park; compensation and expenses of civilian commissioners, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, including $300 for necessary clerical labor under direction of the chairman of the commission; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motorpropelled and one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle; office and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; roads and their maintenance; purchase of small tracts of lands heretofore authorized by law, $55,260. Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation of civilian commissioners; secretary and superintendent; clerical and other services; labor; historical tablets; maps and surveys; roads; purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; foundations to monuments; purchase of land; building a superintendent's residence; office and other necessary expenses, including maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $29,550. Shiloh. and Gettysburg. Vicksburg. Engineer ment. Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the establishment of the park; acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battle field and the monuments thereon; compensation of civilian commissioners, clerical and other services, expenses, and labor; purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position; and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, $42,500. Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation of civilian commissioners; engineer and clerk, labor, iron gun carriages, mounting of siege guns, memorials, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps, surveys, roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of lands, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; and other necessary Depart- expenses, $33,000. Flood control of the Mississippi, etc. Vol. 39, p. 948. Yellowstone Park. Proviso. Snow restriction. Resurfacing belt line. Crater Lake Park. Buildings and grounds, D. C. Improvement care. ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. For prosecuting work of flood control in accordance with the provisions of the flood-control Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $6,000,000. Yellowstone National Park: For maintenance and repair of improvements $147,500, including not to exceed $5,000 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the east boundary, and not to exceed $7,500 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the south boundary, and including not exceeding $3,000 for purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-driven and horse-drawn, passenger-carrying vehicles to be used for inspection of roads and road work, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War: Provided, "That no portion of this appropriation shall be expended for the removal of snow from any of the roads for the purpose of opening them in advance of the time when they will be cleared by seasonal changes. For resurfacing and for finishing the belt line with oil macadam, $20,000. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For continuation of a wagon road and the necessary bridges through the park, together with a system of tanks and water-supply pipes for sprinkling, in accordance with the recommendations in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-eight, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and for maintenance, repair, and operation of two horse-drawn passengercarrying vehicles, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $50,000. Buildings and grounds in and around Washington: For improveand ment and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, $4,000. Monument Grounds. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, $2,000. For repair and reconstruction of the greenhouses at the nursery, $3,000. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, $2,000. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, $1,500. For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, $2,000. For care and improvement of Monument Grounds and annex, $7,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Garfield Park, $2,500. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of General repairs, etc. high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen's lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; repairing and extending water pipes, and purchase of apparatus for cleaning them; hose, manure, and hauling the same; removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, stock for nursery, flowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, and moss, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances; cleaning statues and repairing pedestals, $18,550. For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, Improvements, etc. including maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of one horsedrawn and two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes, $30,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds $3,000. For improvement and maintenance of Judiciary Park, $2,500. For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, $2,000. For grading, soiling, seeding, and planting that portion of Potomac Park west of the railroad embankment, and constructing paths, $25,000. For oiling or otherwise treating macadam roads, $4,000. For care and improvement of the portion of Potomac Park east of the railroad embankment, $50,000. For continuing the improvement of Montrose Park, and for its care and maintenance, $5,000. For placing and maintaining special portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports, $10,000. To continue construction of necessary retaining walls in Meridian Hill Park, and grading incident thereto, $50,000. For care and maintenance of Willow Tree Park, $1,500. For improving the site of the old high-service reservoir, at the southeast corner of Wisconsin Avenue and R Street northwest, $5,000. Potomac Park. Outdoor sports. Meridian Hill Park. Sea wall, Potomac For continuing moving out the sea wall on the river side of west park Potomac Park, $22,500. For care of the center parking on Maryland Avenue northeast, $1,000. Field house, Po For continuing a field house in East Potomac Park, east of the tomac Park. railroad embankment, $50,000. For operation, care, repair, and maintenance of the pumps which operate the three fountains in the Union Station Plaza, $4,000. For constructing and erecting a wagon shed at the propagating gardens, $7,000. Increased pay to la To provide for an increase of fifteen per centum in the pay of park borers. laborers, $15,000. For new road pavements, curbs, gutters, and sidewalks on the E and F Street roadways through Judiciary Park, $15,000. Judiciary Park. For improving small triangles, $2,500. For planting the center parking in Pennsylvania Avenue between Second and Seventeenth Streets southeast, $5,000. Tidal Po Basin, Public bathing beach to be established on. For new public comfort station in Willow Tree Park, $3,500. |