The Washington herald., 1911-03-02
MANY AMENDMENTS
ON LOCAL MATTERS
Efforts to Secure District APP
preparations Made,

Additional efforts to provide for the
acquisition OF the Carpenter-Pennsylvan
avenue tract for park purposes are to De
made before the session of Congress ex-
pires.
Among various amendments of District
importance, which are to be proposed to
the sundry civil and general deficiency
bills in the Senate, is a proposal by Sena-
tor Overman that $4,000 be authorized
to allow the Commissioners to acquire
II acres of land in parcels 26l, n, 2'S,
and g79, to be used ultimately in the
construction of park. This project was
outlined in the District of Columbia aP-
preparation bill. but was stricken out in
conference The Senate Committee on
Appropriations will be asked to include
it in the sundry civil bill
The committee also will be asked to
insert in the sundry civil bill certain
amendments proposed by Senator Root,
permitting the Secretary Of the Treasury
to contract for the erection of the pro-
jeCted buildings for the Departments of
State. Justice, and Commerce and Labor,
and by Senator Gallinger, touching upon
the employment of substitute teachers,
leaves of absence for the members Of
the fire department of the District, and
providing extra moneys for the relief
funds II the police and firemen-
Senator Gallinger's amendment in be-
half OF the teachers authorizes the board
Of education, in the absence of any
regular teacher, to employ a substitute
teacher from the eligible list, and to
pay such teacher one-haIf of the basic
salary of the class of employment for
periods not exceeding thirty days Full
salary IS authorized for periods in ex-
cess Of thirty days. 1t Is provided that
leaves of absence of regularly employed
teachers shall not exceed thirty DAYS
and that they shall receive half salary
for that period unless absence is due
to personal illness. death in family. or
quarantine.
The GaIlinger amendment in behalf Of
the firemen Of the District permits an
extension Of their leaves OF absence for
periods not exceeding thirty DAYS, In
cases of illness or injury received in line
of duty, full compensation to be allowed
for such periods.
Additional amounts required for the
police relief fund. amounting to $4,000.
and by the firemens relief fund, amount
ing to $1,000, are provided by one of the
Gallinger amendments.
1t was asserted yesterday that should
any of the proposed District amendments
IAN VI hN'tptdIte III lHe CIVIL
bill, they will be urged for incorporation
in the general deficiency bill, which also
is in the Senate committee
An appeal from the District Commits
sioners for financial aid for several of
the District institutions has reached
Senator Hale, chairman of the Senate
Committee on Appropriations The gen
eral deficiency bill. as made up by the
House committee and submitted to that
body, it appears, failed to take seriously
several of the estimates submitted by
the Commissioners. with the result that
before the present fiscal year closes
many of the institutions will be deplor-
ably pinched for funds. Among the ap-
propriations left out altogether from the
bill or made embarrassingly small by
the House committee, are those covering
the personal services in the contagious
disease department of the health office
the opening of the Takoma Park library,
the Home for the Aged and Infirm. the
Industrial Home School for Colored
and the Industrial Home School
for White Children. The appropriations
for all of. these organizations were Sc
verely trimmed. with the RESULT that the
may be in serious straits
before the year closes.
Acting on the letter from the District
Offices, the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee has decided to make several
in the general deficiency bill
along the lines proposed.