Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27
GOING OVER CHARITY NEEDS
ESTIMATES OF BOARD TO BE
SCRUTINIZED.
Efforts Of Commissioners to Keep
District Total Within Bounds.
School Figures.

The estimates of the board of charities
will be closely scrutinized this year by
the Commissioners, 1t is stated. Com
missioner Mcfarland says this will be
an innovation, in view of the fact that
heretofore the estimates of the board of
charities have simply been transmitted to
Congress without any cutting. This year
it is said to be different and before
dicted, some of the members of the board
may be making vigorous objections at
the District building.
In the act creating the board of
charities Congress provided that the
estimates of the board should simply be
transmitted by the Commissioners, and
should not be subject to. any revision
by them. But the program is changed.
The last appropriation bill passed de-
missioners shall not exceed twice the
current revenues. The board of charities,
coming directly under the Commissioners,
will therefore have to come under the
estimate-cut:ing knife in order to get
within the limit as required by the
national lawmakers.
Action Regarded as Necessary.
Though the law requiring the Commits
sioners to pass the estimates of the board
of charities has not been repealed. the
Commissioners, it is stated, are going to
take the matter in hand and, II necessary,
cut the estimates SO that they will fl
into the bill and not serve to increase the
total over twice the amount of the cur.
rent revenues.
Secretary Wilson declined to comment
on the situation today further than to say
that the members of the board of chart.
ties will not complete their estimates for
10 ,of h> oh To
port them to the Commissioners until
next Monday at the earliest. He said he
was not aware what action the Com
missioners would take in the matter, but
said he believed the members of the board
of charities would do all in their power to
secure the amount which they will rec
ommend He said he felt sure the Com
missioners would do all they could to
avoid reducing the estimates of the chari-
ties board.
Consider School Estimates. :.
The ways and means, committee of the
board of education. consisting of Presi-
dent Oyster, w. v. Cox, w. D. Hoover
and w. v. Tunnel, accompanied by
Supt. Stuart and Assistant Supt. Hughes.
met the Commissioners i'm the board
room of the District building this morn
ing and considered the estimates which
are to be asked for the maintenance Of
the schools.
The matter was gone over thoroughly
and when the session adjourned at
o'clock this afternoon Commissioner
Macfarland stated that the business In
hand had been finished hut that num-
Der of other items will be submitted by
the board to the Commissioners in a day
or SO.
The appropriation to be asked for the
schools, it Is said. will be approximately
$4,000, coo, and a member of the commit
tee intimated this morning that the Com
missioners would be asked to do all in
their power to keep the amount for the
schools as high as possible. Reports of
the attendance and other items from
the schools will be received at the Frank
lin School building this afternoon, and 1t
Is expected that these will be tabulated
and the Commissioners viii! be furnished
with additional information which could
not be furnished them today.