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MAYTAKECARFARE CUTJKTOCOURT W. M. Clayton Holds Each Line Should Have Own Rates to Meet Revenue Needs. The decision of the Public Utilities Commission reducing street car tokens to 6 2-3 cents may be taken into court by a citizen or prroup of citisens, William McK. Clayton de clared today. Mr. Clayton said lie was considering: an appeal to the_,courts on the state ment of the Washington Railway and Electric Company that the new rate will yield that company a return of only 3 1-3 per cent on valuation. Mr. Clayton expressed the belief that such a return Is inadequate for the Washigton Railway and Electric Company. "If such a rate will not enable the company to maintain its property and render satisfactory service, the peo ple. who depend on W ashtngton Rail way and Electric lines for transpor tation will suffer as well as the com pany," Mr. Clayton continued. Different Rate* Denlred. Such a petition, if presented to the court, would be for the purpose of having rates fixed for each company according to their respective needs. The Commission has adhered to the - belief that the fare should be the same on both roads. Both street railway companies will redeem outstanding tokens at five for Co cents until & late hour this even ing. it was announced today. The main office of the Washington Railway and Electric Company. 14th and C streets, and the headquarters of the Capital Traction Company. ^Gth and M streets, will cash tokens until 5 o'clock. They will be redeemed at all barns of the Washington Railway and Elec tric until midnight, and at Capita! Traction barns until 9 o'clock. The same tokens will continue in use after 2 a.m. tomorrow morning, when the new rate of six for 40 cents becomes effective. Wage Cut Problematical. There were no definite indications today that the wages of motormen and conductors would be cut as a re suit of the reduction in car fare. v "I haven't a word to say on the sub ject," was the answer of President Ham of the Washington Railway and Electric Company, when asked about the wage question. The Capital Traction Company has jgjT an agreement with its men. who are unionixed. under which the wage ques tion could be reopened In March by ei ther side giving notice. Neither the company nor the union had given such notice today, and the impression pre vailed that the wage agreement on ? that system would not be disturbed at this time. Although expressing disappoint ment at the reduction ordered by the commission, Mr. Ham was non-com mittal as to whether he would seek , further relief from the commission. He said he had not had sufficient time to decide that question. He added: Sees Loh la Revenue. "The reduction means a loss in revenue to our oompany of *216.000 annually, as compared with the pres ent rate, and *540.000 annually as compared with the rate In effect a year ago. "The new rate Is estimated to yield us only 3 1-3 per cent return upon the value of our property aa fixed by the Public Utilltie* Commission, using the low prices of 1914. This is certainly far below what any one could consider a reasonable return upon capital invested In yy ""l"! prise, and must necessarily Interfere with the ability of the company to fro forward as it would like to in the upbuilding of its service and facili ties.;' PRINCESSFATiWA ESCORT INDICTED % ^Stephen Weinberg Charged With Impersonating Officer of United States. Stephen Weinberg, alias Stephen Wyman, Ethan Allen Weinberg and Clifford O. Wyman, was, indicted to day by the federal grand jury on a. charge of impersonating an officer of the United States. He is alleged to have appeared at the White House July 26 last wearing the uniform of sl commander of the United States Navy. Weinberg, or Commander Wyman, presented to President Hard ing the Princess Fatima of Afghan istan. He is said to have represent ed himself as attached to the Brook lyn navy yard. Weinberg has been sought for some time by William J. Burns, director of the bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice, where he .is said to be known as the grand im personator. It Is not known wheth er he has been located. The grand jury ignored charges of assault with a dangerous weapon against Samuel Butler, Lucinda Mat thews and Daniel Green and one of larceny acaltlst Richard Williams. Others indicted and the charges ?gainst them are: Clyde H. Harris, grand larceny; Al phonso Joseph Nash assault with a dangerous weapon; Wilder Gage, rape; James A. Monroe, housebreak ing and larceny and assault to rape; Cecil Overton and Bernard Short, robbery; Thomas Collins, Joseph B. Coleman* George Williams, August Bergen, Frank Mills, William Kan dolph. randolph Thomas. Charles H. Simma, Lloyd B. Hudson, John B. Cady, Frederick I>egges and Jesse James Johnson, non-support. COLLECTION PRESENTED. Herbert Ward Objects Given to Smithsonian Institution. Presentation of the Herbert Ward African ethnological collection, in cluding sculptures of African sub jects and objects representing the arts and industries of the natives of the dark continent, to the Smith sonian Institution by Mrs. Sarita Sanford Ward, widow of the late Her bert Ward, was announced by the In stitution yesterday. The collection will be on exhibition to the public at the natural history building of the United States National Museum beginning Thursday. Mrs. Ward by the gift carried out the wish often expressed by her husband during1 his lifetime. ex-bepeesbntahve. dead. CIjAY CENTER. Kan.. February 28 ?Ex-Representative W. D. Vincent of this city, died today in a hospital at St. Louis, according to word received here. He had been operated en for threat trouble. Mr. Vincent was elect ed by the populists in the 90's to rep resent the fifth Kansas district In Congress. KING PYTHON DIS0AINS TENDER DEER MORSEL WHEN THRUST IN CAGE The blr" regal python at the Zoo, that had his first meal in Washington last Tuesday,- com posed of tender young antelope, which he devoured in fifteen min utes, has had quite enough to eat for the present,: thank yon. Satisfied with his meal of juicy young antelope, the big python \ gave a disdainful flirt of his tail I and a haughty snort through his nostrils when keepers Sunday thrust Into his cage a young door of the Barasingha or Indian swamp deer species. NTot literally; of course, did he do these things, for the python is too 'majestio a erea tu?? i? descend to the gestures by which other animals show disdain. _ All he did when keepers thrust the young deer into the cage w:is_ open a pair of sleepy eyes, *ast a long look on the tender morsel in front of him and go oack to .sleep, ___ continuing the stupor character istic of his kind when full of food and in a good humor. However, keepers say, disdain was apparent In every inch of his twenty-five foot length. P^^on will sleep Cor some time. Zoo attendants say, stirring irom time to time to >inco.!l his great length, and will then cast his snake eyes around in the search for more food. D. C. FISCAL CHANGE FOUGHT BY FOCHT {Continued from First Page.) the gentlemen who so constnntlv in veigh against the city of Washing ton and the District as though this was u District that b-jlon^c<l lo a tew profiteering shopkeepers, former saloon keepers and real estate1 grabbers, will cease, for that is not the way to look ut (he District of Columbia. It is the center and seat or government of the whole United btates. Korrramnt Property. "I walk these streets feeling that 'i own as much of this town as any man that lives in it, and I hope I am as proud of It as they are. But this is the point?men are overlooking the fact that the property belonging to the United States government is worth more In acreage and govern ment buildings than all the private property, while the government prop erty is as much in need of fire and police protection as any other. Hence It is up to the government either to j help pay its share or admit that it is incapable of doing so. "Just briefly In regard to this water question. In the first place this is the unique city in the world. There ta none like it anywhere, so far as the government of the District is con cerned. We cannot treat this Just as we would Wichita, Louisville, Harris burg. Boston. Philadelphia, New York or any plane else. We made this District of Columbia??at least in one ought to control it, and we ought to have patience about it. So far as the water proposition is concerned, of course, we pay much more for our water at home for the reason that the water companies at home have been capitalized with private capital and built by private capital and so conducted. "The District of Columbia put In i these waterworks and In return gets the water for the whole District, so far as the government is concerned, for nothing, and we pay the lowest rates possibly in the United States. In our own states at home, if the utilities commissions should give the water companies more than they ought to have, might I not say that they are guilty of favoritism? The statement was made here by the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Mann), who cleaned up the question most beautifully, that is the best evidence in the world that the affairs of the District of Columbia?at least in one instance?are better conducted than they are back home. If you can get water here for $7.20 and have to pay something like $50 at home, as I do. "We should fellow the example of Boston and New Tork and prepare twenty years ahead. We should re move every habitation from the watershed and prepare to have this city grow three hundred or five hun dred thousand more in population, and we should do It now." Reaews Water Sapply Plea. Again, toward the close of the ses sion. Mr. Focht renewed his plea for early action on the legislation to give the National Capital an adequate and safe water supply, saying: "I would like to refer to a question that has been raised here this after noon which pertains particularly to the District of Columbia and, I might add, to all who come to the capital, and that is the question of an ade quate water supply. I cannot com prehend what can actuate any cltiten of tile District or any member of the Sen ate or House in opposing the early consideration, and seriously, with a, view of promptly making provision for a number of years ahead, as well as for immediate water consumption. "I may speak from the standpoint of hygiene, and we take it for grant ed that every man in this civilised time has daily use for a bathtub. When we look back over the wide sweep of history and find that Pliny speaks of pistons and cylinders for pumping water and also we read of Roman baths, and even down In Mex ico the first thing they were dis covered to have were conduits run ning up to the mountains for their own water supply. Strange, is It not. that the last thli r we thought of In our civilization was to have an adequate water suppl" In our homes? "Now, when we have this great luxury I cannot understand why there is -any one so far behind the times, so unfair to his own body. In side and out, as to oppose an ade quate water supply. It marks the high point of civilisation and is only following the divine word of the Master to keep clean, while common prudence should warn us to be ready for conflagrations." j 14 NEW MEMBERS. Executive Committee of Board of Trade Xeets. Fourteen new members were added to the rolls of the Washington Board of Trade at a meeting of the execu tive committee of that organisation yesterday in the Board rooms in The Star building. The hew members are James W. Ayers C. R. Graham, J. R. Devereux. Joseph S. Dow, John T. Dugan, Law rence R. Smoot, Morris E. Marlow, Bart J. Long. James R. Mays, R. M. Hicks. C. J. Bergmann, F. W. Porter, Joseph S. Devereux and Robert C. Shaw. $450,000 FOR NEW HALL. Encouraging Reports to Washing ton Auditorium Committee. Team captains and workers for the proposed $300,000 new Convention Hall here reported to the Washington audi torium organization committee last night at the New ? Willard Hotel that $450,000 of '.he amount being sought has been pledged or subscribed. Among a number of substantial sub scriptions was $2,000 from Clark Griffith, president of the Washington Base Ball Club, who is quoted as saying:- "I am proud aa?a citizen of Washington to make this personal Investment in our city and I believe every public-minded citizen who gives the matter thought will feel the same way." 0BDXBED TO WALTER REED. Warrant Officer Byron H. Mills, at the air Intermediate depot, Richmond, Vs.. has been ordered to Walter Reed General Hospital for dental treat ment. John Joy Edson Wants One Favored by Commissioners Passed by Congress. John Joy Edson, In commenting today on the pawnbrokers' bill Intro duced by Representative Focbt and discussed In the House yesterday, In a formal statement said: "Yesterday, In the House of Repre sentatlveg, on District day, Mr. Focht Introduced and urged the so-called pawnbrokers' bill, H. R. 6309. This bill Is Again3t the recommendation ^ made by the District Commissioners In a letter to Senator Ball on April 26th, 19*1. In which they disapproved the Senate bill. No. 984, which Is practically Identical with the bill In troduced by Mr. Focht, and again urged the enactment of their bill amending: the present pawnbrokers Inv,-. I "The only 'experiment' about the I present law was In making the rate I 1 per cent, which law Mr. Focht voted for. atfainst the advice and recom mendation of the Commissioners and the citizens' committee. In their let ter the District Commissioners say they consider a rate of 3 per cent necessary In the District, and why Mr. Focht, after Insisting on limiting it to 1 per cent, against the advice of the Commissioners, is now in favor of raiding it to 3 per cent, also against the recommer<latlon of the Commis sioners. 1 do not understand. Thinks FmM U Error. "Mr. Focht is also in error, I think, j in declaring that the business has ) fallen into the hands of loan sharks, | because all the loan shark offices I were closed by the faithful execution of the existing law, which has work I ed well, except for the rate, which was favored by Mr. Focht and fixed | against the recommendation of the Commissioners. The present law has been sustained by several decisions of tire Court of Appeals and twice by the Supreme Court of the United States. "The District Commissioners very properly object to the substitution for this well tested law of a new law which provided only for loans by pawnbrokers. and thus would give them a monopoly of all the small loans In the District, Instead of al lowing loans on Indorsed notes or other security, provided in the pres- i ent law, and which I am convinced Is for the benefit of the small bor rowers. "The only way to solve this situa tion properly, in my opinion. Is to pass the Commissioners' bill H. R. 5015, fixing the rate at 2 per cent. We then would have a good working law for all kinds of loans of this charac COMES UP NEXT WEEK. Pawnbrokers' Bill Debate Not Fin ished Yesterday in House. The bill to legalize the business of pawnbrokers In the District of Co lumbia, after being debated at some length In the House yesterday, re- j mains as unfinished business to come up again on the next District day in the House two weeks hence, unless the regular District day is set aside. The House late yesterday recom mitted a bill fathered by Representa tive Mlllspaugh of Missouri, which proposed to amend an act "to re vive with amendments an act to in corporate the medical society of the | District," approved July 7, 1831. The purpose of this amendment was to allow the District medical society to hold In Its own name certain real I estate which It now holds under a I form of trusteeship. | PRESIDENT ASKS $4,500 FOR BATTERY B ARMORY Sam Is in Addition to Present Ap propriation for National Guard. President Harding today sent to | the Senate a supplemental estimate for $4,500 for the District of Colum bia National Guard to be used during I the current fiscal year. The sum asked Is in addition to (7.000, the present appropriation for the cur rent year. The letter of transmittal fram the White House was accom panied by a letter from Oen. Dawes, director of the"budget. In which Oen. Dawes gave his Indorsement of the suggested supplemental approprla-y tlon. The money is to be used to rent an armory, drill hall and storage space for the equipment and use of Bat tery B and to secure federal recogni tion of the battery, which Is part of the reorganised 110th Field Artillery, District National Guard. Battery B is fully recruited, but the War Department refused to recognise the unit or supply the equipment on account of the poor armory facilities available for the battery. DECISION LIMITS STATE - RATE-MAKING POWERS XT. 8. Supreme Court Says X. C. C. Majr Make Intrastate Bates Con j form to Commerce Requirements. The power of the Interstate Com merce Commission under the trans portation act of 1S30 to fix Intra state passenger rates to make them conform to interstate commerce re quirements was upheld by the United States Supreme Court yesterday in a unanimous decision of the court, an nounced by Chief Justice Taft. Two cases, from New York and Wisconsin, brought to test the law, were decided. The decision declared that com merce is a unit and does not regard state lines. "Congress In Its control of its Inter state commerce system is seeking In the transportation act to make the system adequate to the needs of the country by securing for It a reason* able compensatory return for all the work It does," the Chief Justice stated In the opinion. "The states are seeking to use that same system for Intrastate traffic. That entails large duties and expenditures on the Interstate commerce system, which may burden It, unless compensation is received for the intrastate business reasonably proportionate to that for the Interstate business. ' Congress, as the dominant con troller of Interstate commerce, may therefore restrain undue limitation of the earning power of the inter state commerce system in doing state work ? * ? "It can Impose any reasonable condition on a state's use of interstate carriers for Intrastate commerce it deems necessary or de slrable. This is because of the supremacy of the national power in this field." | CIGAE CUTTERS BASHED. j NEW TORK. February 31.?Health Commissioner Copeland has notified District Attorney Banton that pur suant to a resolution of the health board, "no cigar cutter for common l usage shall be manufactured or used In any publlo place in the city of New York." SECOHD BAHXDT TO BUN. " LIVINGSTON, Mont.. February H.? Wellington D. Rankin. attorney gen eral of Montana, and a brother of Miss Jeanette Rankin, the first woman, member of Congress, announces that he will be a candidate for the republi can nomination for United States sen ator at the primaries next August. STREETS ACTUALLY DANGEROUS TO LIFE AND LIMB BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF IMPROVED ROADWAYS \ . ;? ' I'pprr?Thirteenth atmt, MrlknArt, north from Randolph street, akowtng the deep mire, a mixture of hlaek cinder* and clay. It na> at this point that John Canon, the four-year-old younjrster, became stranded on George Washington's birthday, necesslting his sending out S. O. 9. call, which brought a number of nelgh bora to hla rescue. Lower?Knnsas avenue at Randolph street, where It was necessary a week ago to assign.a special police detail to keep children from beta* drowned. It was necessary to dig a deep trench to let the water oft, aad the picture shows the buoys, life lines aad lanterna placed there, not to Indicate shoals for the mariner to avoid, but depths of mud which pedestriaas-muat steer clear of. Residents of Kaasaa avenue and the police aay that there was six feet of water in this area following the recent rains. DANGER TO TRAFFIC ; AND PEDESTRIANS IN MUDDY STREETS (Continued from First Page.) the Commissioners' estimate of 3837 for grading and improving 5th street southeast from Savannah to Trenton streets. Congress Heights?one square. The Star man found a roadbed of clay and stones there, and the street was improved with detached houses on either side. The oriy estimate allowed by the bureau of the budget'and which also was fortunate enough to pass through the House of- Representatives was one of 92.400 for grading and improv ing Raleigh street. Congress Heights, from Nichols avenue westward. This street Is Improved on one side by houses, but the residents cannot reach It by way of Nichols avenue, and have to make a detour of three squares by way of Esther place. There is a short square just west of Nichols avenue which has not even been opened, and the part that has been opened has a roadbed of clay and atone. Vlrt*al River of Mud. Sheridan road, running southeast from Nichols avenue at a point at the foot of the asylum hill, is Just a river of mud, and is In great need of Im provement, being the feeder and about the only means of travel for a section largely inhabited by colored people. The police of the eleventh precinct in formed The Star man that this road was in great need of improvement. U street southeast, Anacostia, is Improved right up to Fendail street by houses on. both sides ot the street. It Is a gravel roadway, very muddy after heavy rains. East of Fendail street It becomes a county road, and the failure to improve. it in any way apparently has retarded the de velopment any farther eastward. Naylor road from its junction with Alabama avenue and running east ward is just yard after yard of mud It became so dangerous after the recent rains that the police reported It unsafe. It' would furnish, if im proved properly, a feeder for traffic between southern Maryland and the Pennsylvania avenue bridge, by way of 25th street southeast. Daagerous Condition, Alabama avenue from Nichols avenue. Congress Heights, to its junction with Bowen road near the head of Pennsylvania avenue -south east is ifi a dangerous Condition. Police have reported it as dangerous and The Star man found by investi gation that It Is nothing but a bed of ! red clay, now badly cut up, and dangerous to automobile traffic that .tries to negotiate It faster than five miles an hour. The scction bordering on either side of this avenue is de l Veloptng. and new streets are being [ mapped out ami marked. New homes are going up. The mud road cannot: be avoided, whether the automobillst or property owner seeks the section by way of the Pennsylvania avenue bridge or the Anaoostla bridge. The police informed The Star man the road Is compelled to bear heavy traffic), and nothing short of a good macadam roadway will be able to bear the traffic. The section lying just southeast of the Pennsylvania avenue bridge and south of Minnesota avenue Is being developed rapidly in every way except the streets. Clay, large stones and cinders furnish the roadbeds on practically all of the streets here. This situation applies to 23d, 24th, 35th ani 28th streets, as well *? Q street and Park place. GIVEN SPECIAL DUTY. Sergt. Frank F. Ammon, 13th En* gineers. at Camp Humphreys, Va., has sen detailed to duty with the Na tional Guard of Wisconsin with sta I tion at Sheboygan. - citizens Discuss streets. Handle Highlands Association Takes Up Impassable Conditions. Bad streets occupied the attention of the Randle Highlands Citizens' As sociation at a meeting last night. The condition of the streets and al leys was the principal topic of dis cussion, several members in short talks telling or the virtual impossibll- | ity to drive autoviot.iles through the alleys. Many of the streets are almost Impassable, it was declared by other members, and censure was given to trash men. who were charged with lit tering the neighborhood with refuse. ?C. A. Barker was appointed by the chair as a representative of the asso ciation to take up with the authori ties the situation at 17th street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast, where lines of the Capital Traction Company and the East Washington Heights Hallway Company cross. The action was taken following reports of the dangerous crossover at this point. JAMES T. TBEW, JR., DIES. Secretary of Motor Company Suc cumbs of Double Pneumonia. James T. Trew, jr., thirty-two years old, and a resident of Washington for the past fifteen years, died at his home, 0529 9th street northwest, last night of double pneumonia. Mr. Trew Is the son of James T. and Mary Bllllrigsley Trew and was born at Westmoreland, Va., January JAMBS T. TREW. 11, 1891. He married Miss Gertrude Woodworth June 27, 1917, and has two children?Virginia, aged four, and James T. Trew, 3d, three years old. __ He was a member of Acacia Lodge, No. IS. F. A. A. M, and was raised to the thirty-second degree, Scottish Bite Consistory, In 1919. He was also a member of Almas Temple and the Board of Trade. For the past seven' years he has been seeretary of the Trew "Motor Company here. Funeral services will be under the direction of the Masons tomorrow at 8 o'clock, and interment will be ini Olenwood cemetery. .1 SEEK TO IDENTIFY MAN. ! The local police have been asked to assist in securing the Identification of a white man who was killed by a Southern railway train. February 8, about a half-mile west of Alexandria, Va. The request was sent today to MaJ. Sullivan, chief of police, by the mayor of Alexandria. The man wore a blue pin-stripe suit, gray plaid overcoat, tan oxford shoes and greenish velour hat. In his pockets were found a small locket with the initials "D. J. R.," about' one half-karat diamond ring, cheap watch and about $1^ a casbr . Directors of Association Hear Proponents of Two Pro posed Plans. Proponents of the two proposed routes for the Lee highway between Memphis'and Chattanooga, Tonn., pre sented their claims today at the annual meeting here of the board of directors of the highway association. From Washington the Lee highway runs through Alexandria, Fairfax Court House, Middleburg and on down through the state of Virginia. Dr. 8. M. Johnson of Washington, general director of the association, an nounced at the outset of today s meet ing that construction work oh every unfinished cap between Washington and Sail Diego would (tart this spring. The case of those favoring construc tion of the highway between Memphis end Chattanooga by way of the Muscle Shoals projects, as opposed to the'all Tennessee route by way of Nashville was presented by Representative Almon of Alabama, who. In the course of his address, declared he was confident Con gress would accept the Ford offer tor the government properties at Muscle Shoals. TRUCK AND CAR CRASH. Accident at East Capitol and 8th Streets Early Today. A motor truck belonging to the Walker Hill dairy and a street car met on a crossing at the intersection of East Capitol and 8th street short ly before 6 o'clock this morning. The truck was overturned and several orates of milk was destroyed. Robert Wehre, twenty years old. 737 5th street southeast, driver of the truck was thrown to tlfc street and seriously hurt, while Charles W. Coxall, motorman, was slightly cut by broken glass. The injured men were taken to Cas ualty Hospital. Coxall was able to return to work after receiving treat ment, but Wehre was detained at the hospital. Wehre suffered from con cussion and injuries' to his shoulder, arms and ear. , LONG GIVES $3,000 BOND. Released Until Hearings in Case of Threatening- Bodily Harm. George E. Long, charged with threatening bodily harm in connection with letters whifh he confessed he wrote to several prominent Washing ton women threatening death as -a penalty for failure to comply with demands for large sums of money, today was released from custody on $3,000 bond. > The bond was previously fixed at j $5,000 but was later reduced. Pre- I liminary hearing in the case will be I held in Police Court Thursday be fore Judge MoMahon. BOSTON WANTS $1 BACK. Asks Sam for Submarine Chaser. Seeks to Be turn Boat. BOSTON, February 21,?The city of Boston spent a dollar for a submarine chaser aqd now wants to return the boat and get its dollar back. Mayor Curley said that the chaser, purchased from the Navy Departments the ad ministration of former Mayor Peters for conversion into a fireboat, would b? returned to the government because the expense Involved in plans for alterations. SENATE COMMITTEE ADDS $3336,164 to D. C. APPROPRIATIONS (Continued from First Page.) <*a"? of * "Ite for this building is Ik k Sjf for the wection of the building:. The appropriation for salaries of teachers and janitors in night schools is increased from $75,000 to $90,000. The items of Increase for the police department Include provision for seventy-five additional privates of class 1 at $1,460 each. The Senate committee made this increase in the police force in view of the growth of the city and the need for more ade qute protection. The committee added $20,000 for a new station house in the suburban District, and added ?5,000 to the appropriation for the purchase of motor vehicles for the police. Under the head of improvements and repairs the committee increased the item for assessment and permit work from $225,000 to $285,000. For paving roadways under the permit system an item of $50,000 was recom mended. "i**! Improvements. Street improvements are recom mended as follows: Northwest?For paving weat side or Connecticut avenue, Ingomar street to Chevy Chase Circle, sixty feet I wide, $45,000. Northeast?For paving East Capita) ' street, 15th street to 18th street, fifty j feet wide, $37,000. Northeast?For paving Rhode Is land avenue. 12th to 16th streets, fifty feet wide. $45,0'>0. , ^'ortheaEt: For P?ving 12th street, Michigan avenue to Upshur street, forty feet wide. $17,200. Northwest: For paving Randolph street, 13th street to 14th street, thirty feet wide. $10,700. Northwest: For paving 28th street from Woodley road to Cathedral avenue, $10,000. For the grading of streets, alleys and. roads an item of $35,000 is in creased to $50,000. For current work of repairs of streets, avenues and alleys. Includ ing resurfacing and repairs for as phalt pavements the appropriation Is Increased from $431,250 to $500,000. For construction and repair of side walks and curbs around public res ervations the item is increased from $15,000 to $20,000. The Senate committee in providing for the payment of interest and for the sinking on the funded debt- made this money payable one-half out of the revenues of the District and one half out of the federal Treasury. Would Boy Parka. The committee authorised the pur chase for public parks of the Klir.gle Road Valley Park, containing about seventeen acres, at a cost of $186,600; I the Piney Branch Valley Park, at a I cost of $237,700. and the Patterson I tract, at a cost of $600,000. It appro priated $300,000 toward the purchase of these parks. To meet the needs of the office of the building inspector, which has been emphasized since the collapse of the Knickerbocker Theater, the Senate committee has provided four addi tional assistant inspectors of build ings at $2,000 each, making a total of Ave principal assistant inspectors. It has also provided for an additional clerk for this office at *1,140. In the office of the inspector of plumbing an additional principal as sistant Inspector Is provided at $1,550. Far Library Branch. For the Southeast branch of the Public Library, the Senate committee has Inserted an item of $5,000 for salaries in connection with the or ganization of that branch. A proviso is added that no person shall be em ployed in that work at a rate of com pensation exceeding $1,500 a year. The committee also added $5,000 for the purchase of books, periodicals and newspapers for the library and all branches, making the total $17, 500. For repairs and improvements to the buildings, *3,000 Is provided. | For the purchase or condemnation of a piece of ground to take the place of Columbia Heights play grounds, an item of $50,000 was in serted. Ismswn tor Sewers. For sewers, the Senate committee has increased the item for main and pipe sewers and receiving basins from $120,000 to $125,000, the item for suburban sewers, from $125,000 to $150,000. For cleaning the streets and snow removal the committee increased the item from $350,000 to $400,000. Increases made for the fire depart ment include one additional combina tion chemical and hose wagon, motor driven. $8,ISO, thereby providing for two such wagons: for additional pumping engine, triple combination, motor driven, at $12,500, providing for two such engines: for repairs, im provements and alterations to engine heuse No. 16, D street, between 12tli, and 13th streets northwest, $5,000. | The Senate committee has increased ' the emergency fund to be used in case j of riot, pestilence or calamity by fire 1 or storm, from $3,000 to $8,000. Repair of Ilaapltal. For repairs to the old Psychopathic i , Hospital building to make It availa ble for female nurses and employes ! an Item of $10,000 has been added. The Senate committee has inserted [an item for the purchase of a site and the erection thereon of a home and school for feeble-minded persons at a total cost not exceeding $300. 000. of which not more than $40,000 shall be expended for a site. Of this sum, $125,000 is made available for j use Immediately. For the National Library for the Blind, located at 1728 H street, north west, $5,000 has been added. For the Columbia Polytechnic in stitute for the Blind at 180$ H street northwest, there h&3 been added $1,500. For the support of indigent insane in St. Elizabeth's Hospttsil the ap propriation has been increased from $S50.000 to $900,000. The Senate committee has provided for eight additional privates for park police at $1,360 each, making a total of sixty-one park police privates. For the maintenance of tourists' camp in East Potomac Park $5,000 has been added. For the construction of a bathing beach and bathhouse for the colored1 population of the city the appropria tion has-been Increased from $25,000 to $50,000. The changes made in the amounts in the bill by the Senate committee are summarized In the report as fol lows: Increase. General expenses?Executive office, salaries, $10,690; oare of District building. $1,200: assessor's office. $2,600; license bureau, $1,500; collec tor's office,.$L2(H>; sinking-fund office, $500; coroners office, $480; Engineer Commissioner's office, $2,120: munici pal architect's office, $7,200; Public Utilities Commission, $500; depart ment pf insurance, $600; surveyor's office. $1,000; minimum wage board, $1,000; free Public Library, $12,000, Total, general expenses, $42,590. Contingent and miscellaneous ex penses ? Miscellaneous expenses, $5,000; postage. $2,500; general ad vertising, $2,000; purchase of small quantities of-grocerles, $200; employ ment service. $2,500; tablets to mark historic places, $500; property yard alterations and improvements, $3,500. { Total contingent and miscellaneous i expenses, $16,200. I Improvements and repairs?Assess- I ment and permit work. $60,000; pav ing roadways under permit system. $50,000; street improvements, $1?4, 900; grading streets, alleys and roads. $15,000; repairs of streets, avenues and alleys, $68,750: sidewalks and curbs around reservations, $5,000; repairs to suburban roads, $50,000; construction and repair of bridges, $2,500. Total, im provements and repairs, $416,160. Sewers?Main and pipe sewers, $5,(TOO; suburban sewers, $25,000. To tal sewers. $30,000. Streets?.Dust' prevention, cleaning and snow removal, $50,000; play- j grounds, $50,000; board for condem nation of Insanitary buildings, $500. Total, streets, $100,100. Public schools?Officers' salaries. $4,000; night schools, $15,000; teachers' retirement fund, $4,000; janitors and care of buildings and grounds, $12,5*0; repairs and improvements to school buildings, $50,000; furniture, etc.. $2S, 240; equipment, of additional school playgrounds, $2,400; Love joy School. building and land. $140,000: Phillips School, building and land. $140,000 Tenley School, land, $25,000; Dunbar High School, land, $50,000; Armstrong Manual Training School, land and building, $150,000. Total. public schools, $616,180. Metropolitan police?Salaries $105. 644; additional motor vehicles. $5,000; new station house in suburbs, $20 000 Total, metropolitan police. $134 644 Fire department?Hose, $3 000- re pairs and improvement* to tire boat, eel! Permanent Improvements. $25 - TV . flre department. $29,150. Health department?Maintenance o' disinfecting service. $1,000: drainage of lots, $1,000; special services in de tection of adulteration of drugs and V*1-0.!. chemistry laboratory. W hospital, repairs, $:,. 000; dispensary for treatment of per sons suffering: with tuiwwculosis. $1 - 000; Child Welfare Society, $3,000; aid to persons of moderate means suf fering with tuberculosis. $3,000. Total health department, 114.850. Courts?Writs of lunacy, $1,000. Emergency fund, $5,000. $jF<HK>rtS a prison??Fees of jurors. Charities and correction?Eastern ivJ?SS2Hry and Casualty Hospital. $10,000; Gallinger Municipal Hospital. $?>a,000; board of Children's guardians. ?? S}?S' Home and School for Feeble - Minded Children $125,000; Home for the Aged and Infirm, $1,500; Municipal Lodging House and Wood yard. $1,240; National Library for the Blind. $5,000; Columbia Polytechnic Institute, $1,500; St. Elizabeth's Hos pital, $50,000. Total, charities and cor rections, $256,920. Public buildings and grounds?Con tent expenses. $100; park police. $10 SfcO; laying cement and other walks, $500; broken stone road cov ering :or parks. $3,000; improvement, etc., of West Potomac Park. $5,000; Improvement, etc.. of East Potomac l ark, $5,000; maintenance of tourists' camp in East Potomac Park, $5,000; improvement of parks for outdoor sports, $5,000; increased cost of park maintenance, $15,000; center parking Pennsylvania avenue southeast. $o00; purification of water of tidal basin, $2,000; construction of bathing ??saa? etc"# for co,oi"*d population. J-o.000; repairs to statue of Gen. George Washington in Washington circle. So00; care and maintenance of Mount Vernon Park. $1,000; operation w,hich operate fountain in t-lrcle. $2,500; heating offices, watchmen s lodges, etc, $1,500. Total buildings and grounds, $82,480. Rock Creek and Potomac parkwav commission. Klingle Road Valley and Piney Branch Valley parks and Pat terson tract. $300,000. Water department?Increased water <?ulhorltr t0 contract for $1,400.00? in addition), $1,500,000; in stalling water meters. $10,000- total water department. $1,510,000; total increase, $3,560,664. ?. . , Decrease. ? .V.ri and corrections?Indus trial Home School. $4,500. Public bulldlnse and grounds?Con struction of sea wall. $20,000. Total 24,50?' Ket Increase, $3,536, VITAL ITEMS SUPPORTED. Senator Phipps to Make Effort to Have Them Retained. mSZUPWr of Colorado, chair man of the subcommittee in charge #.h(1 D'?trict appropriation bill. Thl <? . charge of the bill in the Senate, said today that it had toa"dd ^ PurP??? of the committee whfrh J, i ?PPropriatlon bill items It deemed vitally essential to th? he ^ i7'elfa,re- He indicated tnat he would seek, in every wav m8the bin" haVe these i,ems stained ? to th? Proposal to change * ot appropriation for tlie from the 60-40 plan in vogue In recent years. Senator Phipps point in the hnV.h committee had placed " put" th~uegdh ?0,n*eti?07^l.,h,in^00dnUCed EXPECT BONUS BILL | Majority Members of Com mittee Predict Lack of Revenue Provision. Majority members of the House ways and means committee indicated today, after 1 a conference of more than an hour, that a soldiers" bonus bill without any revenue provisions would be agreed upon.soon. It *>.? said that there had been no discus sion of postponing action. The conference w4s taken up large ly with consideration of administra tive details of the proposed hill. and members said the sales tax had not been discussed. Another meeting will be held later In the day. Coafer With President. Representative Mondell of Wyom ing. the republican leader, held the opinion today'that it might help the lo postpone action on the bonus bill for a while. After he and Mr. tordney had conferred with | President Harding at the White House yesterday Mr. Mondell gave it as hie own opinion that a little delay might serve to "clear the sklea." Harford McNider. national com 1 mander of the American Legion, con ferred with the President on the bonus situation today, urging imme ? u e?act515nt of the legislation. I _ "f- MRC*>',d" and Jobn Thomas Taylor, legislative agent for the le gion, who accompanied the com w!1}.!, dec'ared on leaving the White House that they were "per fectly satisfied" with the results of the conference. Predict* Action Without Delay. , There will be no delay In the pas sage of the soldiers' bonus legislation the legion representatives declared' l adding that the President was "heart and soul with the American .Legion" allion understood fully its po [ Mr. Taylor said they did not dis the President any plan for (raising the bonus or the question of the tax features which the President has emphasized must be Included in any soldiers* bonus legislation. CELEBRATE "HOME WEEK" Chief Justice Taft Tells of Unirer eity Club's History. Reminiscences of the University Club's history from the time of its organisation in 1*04 to the present time were related by Chief Justice Taft, first president of the club at the "Old Home Week" celebration last night. In 1804. Mr. Taft said, the club had only about. 300 members while today It is oue of the largest and most prosperous, and has 1 400 names on Its roll. Col. Myron M. Parker, retiring pres ident, made & brief address. In which he expressed his gratification at the growth of the club during the last year Judge Martin Knapp, the new president, was installed In office Claude M. Bennett was chairman of the committee on arrangements. BUSKED BY TUB OF WATEB. Miss Mav Acala, nineteen years old, 400 E street northeast, was scalded about her side -and back yes terday as a result of the accidental overturning of a tub of hot water while she was washing elotheai She was tuk .n to Casualty Hospital.