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INCREASED FUND
Sks Allotment of Larger
Part of D. C. Budget
to Schools.
illotment of a larger part of the
trict budget to the school system
i advocated by Supt. Prank W.
lou In the Senate hearings on the
8 supply bill, but he and District
iitor D. J. Donovan arrived at
erent calculations as to what per
tage is now going for schools.
Cites Comparisons,
fsing Census Bureau figures for
iparison with other cities, Dr. Bal
said Washington is devoting 24.2
per cent of its municipal budget to
schools. Declaring "that is small"
compared with other cities of com
parable size, the superintendent gave
the average for cities of over 100,000
population as 34 4 per cent and for
cities of over 500,000 persons 27i> per
cent.
Donovan contended that when gas
tax and water rents are eliminated—
since they can only be spent for
highway and water improvements—
the schools "are receiving approx
imately one-third of current general
taxes and other revenues." Dr. Bal
lou said he believed the Census Bu
reau has endeavored to make the
facts comparable.
Declared Immaterial.
Chairman Thomas concluded the
discussion by saying he regarded
the percentage Bs immaterial. Be
cause this is the National Capital,
Thomas said, it might be necessary to
spend more for some other activity.
He said he thought the decision
should rest on whether the schools
are getting a fair sum.
Dr. Ballou agreed to that as an
abstract proposition, but called atten
tion to the rapid annual increase in
school enrollment, which is approach
ing the 100,000 mark.
Senate Committee changes result in
a net increase of $174,435 above the
House bill for school purposes.
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iContinued From First Page.)
bill, the Commissioners would have
to raise the realty tax rate unless
the authority for the temporary loans
also goes through.
After acting to transfer control over
the public hospitals, the Senate group
also reversed the action of the House in
shifting other city activities from one
department to another. The House had
voted to transfer 15 playgrounds that
are near schools from the playground
department to the community center I
office, and to transfer the issuance of j
business licenses from the assessor's
office to the weights and measures
office. The Senate bill leaves them
as they are at present.
The formal committee report shows
the total of the bill at $46,301,181. or
an increase of only $1,184,597 above ■
the House.
Chairman Thomas was authorized,
however, to offer several more amend
ments on the floor of the Senate, in
cluding $325,000 to start construe- ;
tion of a new Pennsylvania Avenue
Bridge, southeast, which, if adopted,
will make the total of the bill $46,- !
600,000, as previously stated, and the 1
Increase over the House more than :
$1,500,000.
$2,000,000 Limit on Bridge.
In anticipation of adoption of plans
for the new' bridge, the Senate com
mittee struck out $40,000 the House
had proposed be spent repairing the
old structure. The limit of cost on
the new bridge will be $2,000,000.
Another important change is in
clusion of $14,320 for salaries and
other expenses of re-establishing the
Minimum Wage Board, which went out
of existence about 14 years ago when
the Supreme Court declared the Dis- j
trict s minimum wage law for women !
and minors invalid. In passing on a
•imilar law in the State of Washing
ton recently, the Supreme Court re
versed its earlier decision, opening
the w’ay for revival of the District
Statute.
Senator Thomas also announced
that an amendment will be offered
on the floor today giving the Com
missioners discretionary authority to
Install automobile parking meters on
the streets here. A similar provision
was placed in last year's bill in the'
Senate, but went out in conference.
Teacher Restrictions Lifted.
Two House riders affecting school
teachers that have provoked much
discussion were stricken out by the
Senate. One restricted the amount
of clerical work teachers could be
called on to perform, which would
have affected assignment of teachers
to research work. The other sought
to place the average of salaries of
school librarians on a level with the
average for similar work in the Pub
lic Library System.
There will be no controversy be
tween the two branches of Congress
In conference this year over the
amount of the Federal payment, the
Senate committee having ratified the
action of the House in voting to
continue for the coming year the
$5.000,000 lump sum fixed for the
current year.
The Senate committee, however,
took a new step in this bill to rec
ognize the Federal Government's ob
ligation to make a direct payment
toward the upkeep of the higher
courts of the District because of the
large volume of national litigation
thrown Into those courts.
Ratio Prescribed.
The Senate committee wrote into
the court section of the bill a provi
sion under which the District would
be required to meet 60 per cent of
the expenses of the United States
District Court, and 30 per cent of
the cost of maintaining the United
States Court of Appeals, the remain
der to come from the Federal Treas
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High Lights of D. C. Bill
As Rewritten hy Senators
HIGH lights of the 1938 District supply bill as rewritten by
Senate Appropriations Committee:
Movement to transfer public hospitals from Wel
fare Board to Health Department revived by authority
given Chairman Thomas to ofTer such an amendment on floor.
It was beaten on point of order in House.
Net result of various increases raises from $8,000,000 to
nearly $7,500,000 amount of revenue city must raise in new
taxes.
Provides funds to re-establish Minimum Wage Board to fix
pay of women and minors.
Leave? unchanged lump-sum Federal payment of $5,000 000
as fixed by House, which is same amount as for current year
Restores annual and sick leave of more than 3,000 per diem
workers.
Contains new provision requiring Federal Government to
meet a definite percentage part of the cost of operating higher
courts in District, based on the volume of national litigation
handled.
Authorizes Chairman Thomas to offer amendment today
for $325,000 for gas tax fund to start new Pennsylvania Avenue
Bridge, in lieu of repairing old structure.
Strikes out House provisions that would have closed Chil
dren’s Receiving Home, transferred 15 playgrounds from play
grounds department to community center office, shifted license
office from assessor to weight and measures office and pre
vented pay increases resulting from reallocations under classi
fication act.
Restores salary for office of people’s counsel, now vacant,
but eliminates new positions suggested by House for fire in
surance rating expert, and a bonding commission.
Authorizes Commissioners to try out automobile parking
meters.
Leaves unemployment relief fund at budget estimate of
$1,465,000.’
ury. These percentages are based on
the estimated ratio of Federal and
local business transacted in these
courts.
It would lighten the burden on
the District's general revenue fund
by about $200,000, and, while this is
a comparatively small amount in the
picture of the city's total outlay for
the coming year, it recognizes the
claim heretofore made that because
this is the Nation's Capital, these
higher courts devote a substantial
part of their time to the legal
affairs of the Federal Government.
The Senate committee supported the
Thomas subcommittee in declining to
add $1,000,000 to the unemployment
relief fund. The bill, however, does re
store the $53,500 the House cut from
the relief estimate for administrative
expenses. This leaves the relief fund
in the bill at the budget figure of
$1,465,000.
During the hearings, one group of
civic organizations urged an additional
$1,000,000 to care for employables who
are out of work. Another group, in
cluding the Board of Trade and
Federation of Citizens' Associations,
opposed the increase.
Receiving Home Retained.
The House provision to abandon
the Children's Receiving Home on July
1, and substitute a system of boarding
homes, was knocked out. In proposing
the changes, the House reduced the
appropriation for care of such children
from $38,000 to $12,000. The Senate
restored to the Welfare Board author- !
ity to maintain a suitable place sepa
rate from the House of Detention for
the housing of children under 17 who
come into the custody either of the
Welfare Board or the police.
The Senate also eliminated the
House rider that sought to deprive
more than 3.000 per diem employes
of the District of all annual and sick
leave, by stiplating that they could
be paid only for days they work.
This does not add to the total cost of
the bill, however, since the budget
for various municipal departments was
prepared w’ith a view to giving these
men the leave they are entitled to.
Parkings Care Returned.
The Senate committee also trans
ferred back to the city's general
fund the expenditures for maintaining
the trees and parkings division, for
paving under the assessment and per
mit system and paving around Gov
ernment property, and for the main
tenance of the motor vehicle depart
ment. The House had sought to make
these functions charges against the
gasoline tax fund, which is used only
for general highway and bridge con
struction.
The House specified a score of i
street intersections throughout the
city at which the vehicle and traffic
department was directed to erect sig
nal lights, but the Senate struck out
this list, leaving the money for
new signal lights in the bill as a
lump sum.
The Senate Committee struck out
a House proviso authorizing the Pub
lic Utilities Commission to investigate
telephone rates, on the theory that
the commission already has that au
thority under the utilities act. In
the Senate hearings, Commissioner
Richmond B. Keech said the com
mission expects to make such inves
tigation without regard to any lan
guage in the bill, and described the
proviso as “surplusage."
The Senate Committee restored
$7,500 for the salary of the office of
people's counsel, now vacant. It also
gave the Utilities Commission $500
for incidental expenses.
As previously announced the Sen
ate bill readjusts the public school
construction program to bring the
funds for colored schpols up nearer
to the percentage of adored children
in the school population. In accom
plishing this the Senate Committee
made the following changes:
Added $200,000 for starting con
struction of a junior high school at
the Banneker playground site, added
$90,000 for purchase of land adjoin
ing site of the old Dennison School
and added $35,000 for purchase of
land in vicinity of First and Pierce
streets northwest.
Reduce Other School Funds.
Reduced the appropriation for start
ing a new senior high school at Fifth
and Sheridan streets from $450,000
to $350,000, reduced the fund for
the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Junior High School and Library from
$400,000 to $300,000, and eliminated
$8,000 for a Bradbury Heights port
able school.
Under the heading of schools the
Senate Committee also granted the
following increases over House fig
ures: Sixty-flve thousand, four hun
dred dollars for 39 new teachers,
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making a total of 93 new teaching
positions; restored $14,300 for clerks
and other employes and $3,300 to
the Item for administrative officers;
night schools, $8,000; care of build
ings and grounds, $6,725; transporta
tion of tubercular pupils, $5,000;
transportation of pupils in Bradbury
Heights, $2,000; purchase and repair
of furniture, $4,000; contingent ex
penses, $17,100; apparatus and fix
tures, $1,400; school gardens, $2,400;
repairs to school building!, $35,475;
equipment of school yards for play
$7,000. ’
-in aumuon to deciding to place
public hospitals under the Health De
partment instead of Welfare, the com
mittee made the following Increases:
Tuberculosis' Sanatoria, $20,477 for
personnel and $26,000 for mainten
ance; Gallinger Hospital, $32,180 for
personnel and $20,000 for mainten
ance, The amendment which Senator
Thomas will offer on the floor today
to take administrative control of these
hospitals from the Welfare Board was
originally proposed by the House Ap
propriations Committee, but was
knocked out on the floor of the House
when the House District Committee
challenged this method of changing
legislation by rider on appropriation
bills. The bill as it stands also would
give the Health Department the funds
for treatment of indigent patients un
der contract at Emergency, Casualty
and Children's Hospitals and the
Washington Home for Incurables.
Designates Health Center Site.
In place of the House provision giv
ing the Health Department $200,000
to purchase a site and erect a health
center, the Senate bill directs the de
partment to build the proposed center
on the site of the Jones Elementary
School, First and L streets, at a cost
of $165,000.
Some of the institutions under the
Board of Public Welfare were given
increases, as follows: Workhouse and
reformatory, $40,680 for personnel.
$23,200 for maintenance and $37,000
for replacing defective wiring; Na
tional Training School for Girli, $4,
500 for personnel and generai ex
penses and $65,000 toward the school
construction program; District Train
ing School, $5,000 for personnel; In
dustrial Home School for Colored, $3 -
830 for personnel and $4,500 for main
tenance; Columbia Polytechnic Insti
tute, $3,000; physicians for the poor
$5,760. ’
The Police Department was given an
increase of $5,520 for miscellaneous
expenses, including pay and allow
ances, and the Fire Department $13,
100 for pay of officers and members.
Highway Fund Increased.
The highway fund under the gas
tax was increased by $280,920. includ
ing the following: $100,000 for repair
of streets, $43,000 toward completion
of Chain Bridge; surfacing and re
surfacing, $75,000; curbs and gutters,
$25,000. and several smaller items.
Foj- the water service, the commit
tee granted an increase of $70,000 for
operation of the Washington Aqueduct,
and $6,300 for maintenance of the dis
tribution system.
For National Capital Park increases
totaling 115,380 were allowed for per
sonnel and general expenses.
The Senate Committee struck out
provision for creating the position of
fire insurance rate expert in the in
surance department, although Supt. of
Insurance J. Balch Moor reiterated in
the Senate hearings his House testi
mony to the effect that fire Insurance
rates here are too high in relation to
fire losses.
The committee also struck out
$13,040 the House had Inserted for
establishment of a bonding commis
sion, under the Corporation Counsel,
to enable the District to furnish the
bonds required in local courts. The
fees for such bonds would have be
come a source of municipal revenue.
Corporation Counsel Seal told the
Senate Committee that since the
House acted, he has made inquiry and
found that no other city is using the
plan, and that he doubted its feasi
bility.
me senate committee strucic out
two other House riders, one of which
would have prevented pay Increases
called for by the reallocation of po
sitions under the classification act.
The other provided that no appropri
ation would be available for the ex
pense of issuing congressional tags
except to those persons designated by
law to receive them.
Several Small Increase*.
The Senate bill makes vai^ous small
increases for many other municipal
activities, including the following:
For sewer work, $47,970; for collec
tion of refuse, $38,350, and recorder
of deeds’ office, $12,460.
The final decision on all these
changes will rest with the conferees
for the two branches, after the Sen
ate passes the bill. The conclusions
reached by the conferees also will
determine the exact amount of the
impending deficit the local com
munity will have to make up in new
taxes.
In the Senate hearings the Com
missioners said they hoped it will be
possible to raise the additional rev
enue needed without increasing real
estate. Commissioner Sultan told the
Senate group that if the supply bill
as finally passed requires $7,500,000
of additional local revenue and the
new tax bills now pending do not pass,
it would be obligatory on the Commis
sioners to raise the rate on real and
personal property. And to meet a
deficit of that size, he said, would
mean boosting the real estate rate
from $1.50 to $2.10 per $100 of assessed
value.
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discussion of affiliation with the Com
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promised delegates today in the fourth
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Meetings of convention committees
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D. C. PAIR TO GRADUATE
Two Washingtonians, Edward L.
Smith, jr., and Adam Wenchel, will
receive the bachelor of arts degree
at the annual commencement exer
cises at Lafayette College Friday.
Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Smith,
1225 Newton street northeast, was a
member of the freshman and varsity
basket ball and base ball teams. He
was a member of the Delta Tau Delta
Fraternity and the Calumet Club,
honorary sophomore society. Wench
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of 2934 Upton street, served as an
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restaurant proprietor, died yesterday
at his home after a brief illness. Ha
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Healey; a son, Michael. Jr., and a
brother, Daniel.
Mr. Healey was born at Abbefeald,
Ireland, and came to Washington
when he was 10 years old. For tha
last five years he had operated a
restaurant at 1409 Fourteenth street.
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