Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
Cut in District Estimates by
House Committee.
REDUCING EXPENSES
COMMISSIONERS HAVE NO COM
MENT TO MAKE.
Approval of Some Recommendations
Gratifying - Change in Business
Methods Regarded as Necessary.

The District Commissioners had but little
TO say today relative to the slash given
the District appropriation bill by the House
subcommittee on appropriations. 1t is known
that seine of the cuts made by the House
subcommittee not exactly pleasing to
the Commissioners but they refraned from
expressing their disapproval and instead
mentioned their qualification at the COM
mittee's adoption of several of their recon-
mendations. 1t is presumed that the Dis
trict officials have not given up all hone
Yet, but that they will go before the Senate
subcommittee on District appropriations
ana there strongly urge the adoption of ali
the original estimates and recommended
tions.
Inc cut made in the District appropria-
uon Dill by the House committee this wear.
1t Is stated. is by far the greatest made in
a, 'ny ears 1T is considered that this re-
udctlon brings out Sharply the necessity OF
securing a different and more business-Iike
Arrangement of the Districts finances
Inc cutting down of the current OK
PehSes' IL Is stated, is but the logical resuIt
vi ,ne pohcy OF Congress in refusing to
ir"he an ADVANCE to the District payabl.
III d term OF years for the purpose of car
sIns out the numerous projects of perma-
Pent Improvement. In order to meet the
re
my are MADE IT Is necessary to reduce the
current expenses of the municipality below
Witt IS considered to be advisable II is
Understood that the Commissioners will
"a se Delore the Senate committee the adop-
tlpn OF the plan for financing the large i'm,
PioNement projects which they have con.
sistentiy recommended for several years.
Reductions From Original Estimates.
ne estimates for 1906, as originally SUBJ
united to the Commissioners by the heads
Vi the various District departments.
itmoullteu 10 Sll, 60. The Commits
SlUiicrs reduced this amount to SEAT
''b'to and the House subcommittee 80
thef reduced the budget To 81 ,.,I er,v a-
almost So,COoN0 below the amount oriel
ii"iS submitted to the Commissioners it
- Pointeu OUT that If Congress would as
Seht 10 the Commissioners recommenda
ton that the items for current aynarsas
anu permanent improvements be separated
anu the latter paid for by the District IN
Term OF years, that the municinaI;t,,
would be enabled to meet tba ct,rreat ~.
Pehses each year without embarra ssment
ana also nave sufficient surplus left over
s 80 pay reasonable installment on its
Standlng debt each year
The House subcommittee emf o,,t nc a.
III an proposed increases in salary recon-
mended by the Commissioners The com
hr ,,fev aIioweo only two new public school
ruiiuilSs-ohe IN Georgetown, to relieve the
turtis School, and one in the tbirteantb
uIIlslon, TO relieve the Randall and Reii
SCHOOLS NO new buildings We're allowed for
- tue nre department, and the municinaI no.
pltal building was again ignored Tha onyo
mlttee reduced the appropriation for re-
PAIRS 10 streets, avenue and alleys from
StououV' as recommended by the Commits
Sioners, to S1S5,OOO, and the items for 70
pairs TO county roads was practically elm
mated. No appropriation was alloWed-for
the proposed new bridge across Piney
o'"Hci On 'he line OF 10th street extended
These Concessions Gratifying.
several of the recommends lions of the |
House committee, however, are gratifying
10 the District officials and citizens the |
most notable being the practical abolition |
of the subsidy system with respect to cbar
liable institutions and the transfer of the |
regular per diem employees to the annual |
ron. Ihe placing of the harbor patrol I'M |
ger the police department, which has been
recommended by the Commissioners for the |
step toward Improvement
1t is understood that the Commit sSiopars
consider the recommendations as To the
changes in the charity system as quite
satisfactory, on the whole, even though it |
may not be the best solution of the oues-
tion. The conditions it is believed will no
greatly improved. The boys reform school |
has been placed entirely under the Depart |
ment or Justice, and the Freedmen's Hos !
pltaI has been placed entirely under the |
control OF the Interior Department while |
the District is given lump sum to be ex-
pended under direction of the board of |
tenance of inmates in each institution
Subsidies have been discontinued with re-
spect to the National Association for the |
Relief of Colored Women and Children
the Washington Hospital for Foundlings
st. AIMS Infant Asylum and the Florence
Crittenton Hope and Help Mission, and the |
board Of charities has been given a lump
sum to provide for the maintenance of Dis
trict inmates in these institutions. The |
appropriations have been reduced in the
case of other institutions as follows: Work |
Home to-
German Orphan Asylum. reduced from
$500 to $1,000: Woman's Christian Home,
reduced from $4,000 to $1,000 The appro-
priation for the Young Woman's Christian
Home has been eliminated entirely.
Abolition of Per Diem Roll.
The Commissioners for the past four
years have urgently advocated the transfer
of all per diem employees regularly en-
ployed to the annual roll. and they are nat
urally pleased that the House subcommit- |
tee has finally consented to their recon- |
mendation. 1t is believed that this change
will prove advantageous. not only in the
interests of better administration, but also
in that it will place the regular per diem
employees on the same footing with respect |
to annual and sick leave as the other en-
ployes of the District.
1t is presumed that the House subcom-
mittee reduced the appropriation TO be ex-
pended toward the construction of the new
municipal building this year from 100000
10 $500 600 with a view to keeping the total
cost OF the DuliUlnS DOWN 10 II
is confidently believed however, that this
appropriation will be increased. The Dis
trict officials feel certain that Congress will
finally consent to increasing the cost of the
permanent home of the District govern
nlent to 81. 500, 600. in order to permit of the
erection of a stone building. 1t is not be-
lieved that the members of Congress will
require the District of Columbia TO build a
brick structure. which in a few years will
become unsightly, along the principal thor
oughfare of the national capital.
II Is likely that the Senate committee
will place back in the bill many of the
items omitted by the House committee and
the Commissioners also hope that the Sem
ate committee will consent to arrange the
Districts finances so to permit of the
Districts carrying its share of the per-
manent improvements in manner similar
to that obtaining elsewhere.
News Briefs.
A dispatch from Danbury. Conn, last
night says: Two freight trains on the New
York. New Haven and Hartford railway