Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-18
BILL LD|V|DESNEW
HIGH SCHOOL CASH
Senator Lane Would Authorize
$450.000 for Building in
Eastern Section.
REFERRED AFTER DEBATE
TO DISTRICT COMMITTEE
$4,000 Balance of $1,000, 900 Ap-
preparation Would Be fo- 18th
and Clifton Streets Structure.

A Dill authorizing the division of tine
Sl.2n,co appropriation for the erection
OF the Central High School contained in
the appropriation act for 1915, SO that
sfoo.oGo shall be expended for the new
central High School at 1Ith and Clifton
streets northwest. and the remaining
100000 shall be expended for a new Cen
tral High School to be located in the
eastern section of Washington. was intro
duced in the Senate today by Senator
Lane OF Oregon.
Senator Lane explained that his bill
was in accordance with the recommends
tions Of the District Commissioners. con-
tanned in : report sent TO the Senate this
week in ansE-eI TO resolution passed
by the Senate.
The original estimate for the erection
OF central high school ut l1th and
CLfton streets did not provide for such
a large expenditure said Senator Lane.
The Senate bill called for an aDpropria-
ton of 100000 for this purpose But in
sl,SU,Oo. / ask that the bill be referred
10 the committee on the District of Co.
lumbia.
Lane Seeks Quick Action.
Senator Smoot suggested that the bill
should go to the appropriations commit
Tee, which had passed on the matter be-
fore
don't care 10 which committee il
goes SO long as we get quick action on
it, replied Senator Lane.
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia ex-
pressed the opinion that as the bill re-
.ated 70 matter of Policy for the Dis
trict it should go to the District com
mittee
Il am strongly in favor of division
OF TINS appropriation and for the erec-
tor Smith. AT the time II was m he-
iore stated that to be the case.
mink 1t is better to have the two high
SCHOOLS than to mass so many pupils In
tne one central high school, as IS pro-
Needs of Future Considered.
Senator Gallinger, former cbsirynan os
the district committee, said that. while
a mistake might have been made in pro-
'ioing so large an appropriation for the
one school. this course had not been
adopted without due delfberation and
after many hearings on the subject.
The District Of Columbia has rassed
the period of building small public; school
buildings, said Senator Gallinger. "Wasi,
ington IL gridironed with small schools at
present ana that Is one reason why the
cost OF education per capita is so high In
tne Ddstrict as compared to some other
cities. l know the appropriation for the
central High School was made with the
idea of looking after the needs of the
future"
Provisions Of the Bill.
The bill. which was finally referred to
the District committee, makes the follow
ing provisions:
That the appropriation of S1,oO.OJo
authorized by the act of March 4. 1913
entitled An act making appropriations to
provide for the expenses OF the govern
ment OF the District of Columbia for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1914 etc., for
the erection Of a Central High School
building In the city of Washington, d.
c.. be divided, $4,000 thereof to be ap-
piled to the erection of Central High
School building on the site at the corner
Of 11th and Clifton streets northwest,
heretofore acquired under authority of
Congress, and that the remaining $50
0o. or Sc much thereof as may be neces-
sary, be applied, under direction of the
board of Commissioners OF the District
OF Columbia. to the purchase Of q site,
preparation of plans and erection of a
High School building III the eastern Sec
ton of Washington, in accordance with
the general plan outlined in Senate
document 30, Sixty-thrd Congress, Sec
ond session..