The Washington herald., 1912-01-12

| stance, one property yard keeper, draw
ing S1.0O0 year. was removed. while ten
cleaners (one-fourth of the total number
employed were removed from the Dis
trict Building.
One OF the severest blows OF all Is IN
the police department, where the Com
missioners' estimates OF Loss, $3.50 was
| cut TO Se53 600. or $1,000 less than was
| given for the present year. The force Is
decreased by twenty men-aue to a les
sening in the number required to guard
the White House-despite the earnest
pleas that these men be sent to the out
| lying precincts where large suburban
areas are inadeduately covered at pres
ent. The allowance OF mounted men Is
reduced from $3.50 to $40 per annum,
miscellaneous expenses are SLICED from
N0.0S0 to S43 500. and the expenses of the
National Bureau OF Criminal Identifica-
tion are cut from 5000 TO pOo year.
school Budget SLAUGHTERED.
Next in Importance, and greater in
point OF monetary reduction, is the cut
in the school estimates. Here the sub
committee allowed a total fund Of g.
l21. $40. which is S7eS 80 less than the Com
missioners asked and S764,sOo less than was
allowed in the last appropriation bill A
| cut Of 1900 was made in the purchase Of
textbooks and supplies, and the fund for
from 800. 900 to $500. The greatest cut.
however. is in the Item for buildings and
grounds.
Here the Commissioners. by careful par
ing. reduced the sum from $50. rs Cal-
lowed for the fiscal year Of I9l2) to 81. 900.
The subcommittee, evidently deciding
that careful economy Is no economy
went after this item with an axe and
reduced il TO Sf53 200.
In the item Of longevity pay. principals
Of grade manual training schools were
included for the first time. The general
fund, however, was reduced from y555,-
coo. which is the current appropriation. to
500, 900. The Commissioners asked for
S5Is,O0
street Cleaning Item Cut.
The appropriation for current work of
repairs OF streets, avenues. and alleys
is reduced from t425. 900 to $4,000, and the
sum made Immediately available is re-
duced from SlO0oOO 10 $4,000. provision
Is included authorizing a municipal as
phalt plant. II authorizes the Commis-
sioners in their discretion to use such por-
ton of public space lying south of Water
street and east of Fourteenth street
southwest as may in their judgement be
necessary for the site of an asphalt plant.
and ne storage yards and other acces-
thorized ito establish, construct. or pur-
chase, maintain and operate, on the site
prescribed an asphalt plant. with the
necessary accessory structures, materials,
means of transportation, road rollers,
tools. and machinery, and railroad sid
ings, including one portable mixing plant
for the utilization OF old asphalt material
now wasted, all or any Of the above work
to be executed by day labor or contract,
as in the judgment OF the Commissioners
may be deemed most advantageous to
the District of Columbia"
Another new paragraph extends the
authority given the Commissioners to
make such changes in the lines OF the
curb Of Pennsylvania avenue and its
intersecting streets in connection with
their resurfacing as they may consider
necessary, to apply to street and ave-
nue. improvements provided for In the
bill on condition that no change shall be
made unless there is a resulting decrease
in the cost Of the improvement The
appropriation for replacing and repairing
sidewalks and curbs around public reser-
vations and municipal buildings Is re-
duced from $4,000 to N,po. |
For repairs of county roads, S25,sOo,
reduction of $1,000 /
Slice in Health once.
The salary Of the poundmsster is re-
duced from 81 500 TO S1,2oo, and the appro- |
priation for Iaborers under him is cut |
from 1900 to 5000 Increases Of salary |
recommended were rejected. The dppro- |
priation for personal services in connec- |
ton with the prevention of contagious |
diseases is reduc& from $1,000 to $4,000, |
and the total sum allowed is $23,000, a /
reduction of $l,5O8.
II Is specifically directed that no bac-
teriologist employed out of the appro-
priation shall be paid more than $6 day. /
The committee declined to authorize the /
purchase of motor ambulance The dis
injecting service fund is reduced from |
1850 to $780, and the appropriation to
enforce the act providing for the drainage /
of lots in the District is cut from s. 500
to $1,000.
A reduction from $500 to $500 is
made in the appropriation for the
equipment and maintenance OF the bac-1
teriologist laboratory. The annual al
lowance to inspectors of dairy farms
for the maintenance by each OF horse
and vehicle or motorcycle for use In
from $3.50 to s24o, and the total is cut
from $4,000 to $4,000. The item for
maintenance Of the public crematory is
reduced from y2,500 to f1.5oO
No changes in existing law, or In
creased salaries are recommended for
the Juvenile Court, the Munlcipai Court
the interest and sinking fund once, or
the board OF charities
Miscellaneous (court) = Compensa-
tion for jurors reduced from Sl,I40 to
$1,000. For furniture. fixtures, equip
ments. and repairs to the courthouse
and grounds, $500. reduction of 500.
District Courts suffer.
The miscellaneous expenses Of the
Juvenile, Police. Appellate. Municipal.
and Supreme courts are consistently
cut. In the last Instance the difference
is 10000, the court having been al
lowed s25. 900 for the current year.
The FIRE department like the police
department, has suffered severe re-
ductIon. there being an appropriation
OF $sSS07o, as opposed to the estimate
OF S7Ss.l2o made by the Commissioners.
and fhe sum OF s69s.656 allowed for the
current year. The increase In the de-