Show PPROPRIATION BILL I I The Sundry Civil Bill Finally Agreed to SUBSIDIES TO AMERICAN SHIPS Poor Classes of Vessels That Mar Receive ThemTo be Built so as to be Convertible Con-vertible into Cruisers WASHINGTON March 2The conferees on the diplomatic and consular appropriation appropria-tion bill have agreed The Hawaiian cable proposition is amended to provide for the payment to the cable company of not more than 150000 per annum for fifteen years by the government witharequirement that the Hawaiian government shall pay also a sum equal to onethird paid by the United States The Senate provision looking t a division divi-sion of the Central American mission and the raising of the Mexican mission t the first grade Agreed to The conferees on the legislative bill have agreed on all but two or three points The civil service commission goes on without with-out any change The Senate proposition for redistricting Utah is still open The conferees on the Indian appropriation bill failed to agree i The conferees on the sundry civil bill have reached an agreement The paragraph relating to the Worlds fair amendment to appropriate 550000 as proposed by the House instead of 300000 proposed by the Senate for the expense of the government exhibit and for the Worlds Columbian commission 595000 is appropriated of which 36000 is for the board of lady managers The bill as agreed upon appropriates appro-priates 537509363 being 1661175 less than as it passed the Senate and S3206S93 more than as it passed the House 7771081 more than the current law and 1301719 130171 less than the estimates The Senate amendment amend-ment appropriating 100000 additional to purchase a site at San Francisco and the surplus to be used in the commencement of the construction of the building was retained re-tained All lighthouses provided for either by the Senate or House are retained with the exception ex-ception of the following Capo Disappointment Disap-pointment Wash and St Marys Island Alaska Instead two new lifesaving stations sta-tions are to be established in Oregon The following Senate provision was retained re-tained Ten thousand dollars each for statues of Sheridan Logan and Hancock I 150000 for the recoinage of silver abraided below the limit of tolerance The following appropriations were struck out 15000 for reindeer to be imported into Alaska 20000 for irrigation investigation investi-gation The appropriation for enforcing the Chinese exclusion act is reduced from tOO to 50000 Appropriation for mill tary posts is fixed at 745000 |