The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-31
DISTRICT ESTIMATES
Nine hinion Dollars TO Be Asked for
the Fiscal Year 10Oi,2

| Nine Mifiion Dollars TO Be Asked fo,
the Fiscal Year foOi-,2
Inc commissioners have now finished
the schedule of estimates to be submitted
TO Congress for the expenses of the Mn
hielpaI Government for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1902, and they will soon be
transmitted to the Secretary of the Treas
ury for consideration and forwarding IN
/ the President and the houses of Congress
In speaking of the matter today to re-
porter OF The Times, Commissioner Mac
farland said:
We shall ask for all that we think alb
! soIutely necessary for the maintenance of
| the District Government and for III. i'm
| pfoYement of the District Itself and no
| more We shall ask more in the aggre-
| gate than was asked last year and NJ
! We have been obliged by the pronabIa
| condition CT the District funds f5on
| "nich half OF the appropriations must BE-
| thhen, TO defer for the present worthy
| projects Of Improvement. 1t is very re-
SfettabIe that the surplus of District tax
| tuhoS which accumulated in recent years
| IN the Treasury was taken, in spite of he
hsllf-an- half principle CT the compact Of
1878, TO pay the whole expense of project
Which ssouId have waited until Con-
Sfess was ready TO appropriate half their
cost cut OF the national Treasury. AS a
result We are now confronted with a ros-
slbie deficit, if all the apprc priations thai
are apSoIIteIy necessary Should be made
Dy congress at the coming session.
IN the estimates for the next fiscal
year we have been Obliged 10 keen within
narrow bounds where we ought TO have
been able To expand For example the
plan Tor the disposal of the sewage of the
blstflct IN a satisfactory manner ought
TO be carried out rapidly by large appro-
priatlons until il is completed But we
are obliged TO ask for comparatively
small appropriation which will simply
carry forward the work at the present
slow rate at the expense of the health nf
the District. Another class OF improve
ments. like the much-needed District
Building, must wait for legislation before
we can include it in the estimates. and
the legislation is kept waiting by the fact
that the District surplus has been taken
against the recommendation of the Dis
trict commissioners for other things
1t IS not improbable that Congress may
cut down our estimates even in most i'm |
portant recommendations, and that we |
may get much less than we have asked, be- !
cause of our financial situation
personally, l am in favor of meeting the |
needs or the case boldly by asking Con- /
gress TO authorize and guarantee Il loan
sufficient in amount to cover all the neces-
sary improvements we need, but only upon
condition that the United States as the
owner OF more than half the real estate
Of the District of Columbia, shall nav one
nalt OF the principal and interest Of the
oonds. am unalteTably opposed TO the i
silShtest infringement of The 'haIf-and-
naif principle of our organic act. Ity-onId
De easy to float such lean at the lowest
rate OF interest 1t would give US our
improvements quickly, and their COST |
would Gu De spread over number of years"
me aggregate amount asked for in the
OF estimates is about s. 0na nnn