Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-25
DEFICIENCY BILL IN
Measure Reported to House
Carries Sc, 182,838.24.
DISTRICT GETS S101,525
Commissioners Receive Nearly
Everything Asked For.
PRUNING KNIFE WELDED.
Total Amount Provided for Is Mil
lions Short of that Desired by
Departments.

The District Of Columbia will be pro-
vded for to the extent OF S1O1 70 in
the general deficiency appropriation bill
which was reported to the House Of Rep
resentatives late this afternoon This
amount carries pretty nearly everything
the Commissioners asked for to clean up
their last fiscal year. but the District
amount is merely q small part OF the to-
tai. The entire bill carries S6 1S2, S3S "a.
1t is the smallest deficiency bill TO be pre-
scented to the House in twenty-five years.
The amount the various government de-
partments asked for was approximately
100000. The bill contains nothing to
stop the deficiency in the police and Are
mems pension fund In tho District of
Columbia, although the Commissioners
asked for $4,000.
For the coroner's office $40 is appropri-
ated to pay the deputy coroner for serv-
ices during the absence Of the coroner in
the year 1912, and $50 for the same serv-
ices In 1911.
For an additional amount required for
purchasing supplies for a temporary field
party which went out surveying for the
District government. and which bought
some gasoline, bills for which were not
rendered until recently, S66 is appro-
priated.
Money For Advertising.
For an additional amount required for
general advertising, authorized and
quired by law. for schools and tax no
tees. and notices of changes In Com
missioners' regulations. $1,S62 was ap-
propriated.
The cost Of advertising taxes in ar
rearS was greater last year than the
appropriation. and the bill carries $4o3- 50
to cover It. Because Of the greatly in
creased number of automobiles in the
District. 1t was necessary to appropriate
500 more to the enameled Identification
tags. furnished by the license clerk. The
bill also carries 81, O6O for the additional
amount required for the purchase of num-
Der tags for horse-drawn vehicles.
The Mildred Dean decision in the courts.
affecting the pay OF teachers In the pub
lie schools. forced the board Of educa-
ton to pay out $4,000 more than 1t had,
and the bill authorizes that expenditure.
Because OF colder weather than was ex-
pected. the schools had to buy more coal
than usual. the amount in the bill being
ST, 667 "a.
Because the Industrial home school for
colored children has been increasing its
number Of wards the institution has been
spending more money every year than
would be estimated. and this deficiency
bill carries a little over $4,000 to settle
the account
Funds for Hospitals.
Changes in the Washington Asylum and
jail and the increase Of patients in the
asylum calls for an appropriation Of
s.. 300. The operation Of the Juvenile
Court in sending to Jail husbands who
will not support their wives and chill
dren calls for $5965O This amount was
paid to various women and children and
represents labor at the workhouse at the
rate of so cents a day by the erring hus-
bands Emergency Hospital gets s.. 245. 80,
Eastern Dispensary gets 1888.
The board OF children's guardians gets
1913. and authoity is granted to pay,
in addition to the sum Of 81 800 hereto
fore authorized, a further sum not TO
exceed $1,4OO, to various seciarian insti-
tutions during the fiscal year just passed
The Reform School for GIRLS Is allowed
1908 .66 for the services for an additional
teacher.
The Industrial Home School was al
lowed S.s17 for deficiencies.
Judgments against the District Of Co
vided for by an appropriation of $S,844
The Supreme Court Of the District OF
Columbia gets $4,000. This deficiency is
due to the unusual and extraordinary ex
pense In connection with condemnation
cases: furthermore the courts have a bill
of more than 5000 for the taking of
testimony In the Gompers case. For the
support Of convicts $4,000 was appropri-
ated for the fiscal year 1912, and for 1911
a little more than 81 900 was appropriated
The National Training School for Boys
got 81. 1O6. The Home for the Aged and
Infirm drew little more than $3.1D0.
Pay for Naval Militia.
The naval militia was granted its pay
for last years cruise. amounting to
81 AT The Government Hospital for the
Insane was given IS. los to pay bills &C n
tracted with local merchants: for repairs
to the United States Capitol. $500 was
allowed. and $500 was granted the gov
eminent printing Office to allow the pub
lie printer to comply with the law re
garding payment of government employees
on holidays.
The rest of the deficiency bill was
divided among the government depart
ments as follows:
State Department, $331a3s; Treasury
Department. $685.. 65a 16: War Department.
-. $3.50. Al. military establishment, 81 49,
642O1: Military Academy. $4,000: Home
for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. sI10.-
G52 10: river and harbor work. $l.6O9O6:
Navy Department. $2.L3a4S: naval estab-
lishment $J71 .613.S; Department Of the
Interior. $s.W4.n; Department Of
Justice. $67, O62B which includes
$4,000 for the enforcement OF the anti
trust laws; judicial. $14 1888: United
States courts $l91. 1872 Is: Post Office De-
partment. $3.50: postal service. S1,OO2.-
7O4.17; House Of Representatives, $751;
791-47: government printing ONCE. 81. 100;
judgments In the United States courts,
$ss.Gss. 10; judgments in the Court of
Claims. S200.a'.H: judgments from In
dian depredations. $39.971: audited ac-
counts. S574.967.45. and Gettysburg bat
| tlefield anniversary. $4,000.