Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-22
WORK ON BUDGET
TO Be DEFERRED
Commissioners Newman and
Sidd0ns to Await Return of
Col. Harding in September.

Commissioners Newman and Siddons.
the new civilian heads of the District of
Columbia. will be entirely in charge of
the administration of local affairs next
month, as Engineer Commissioner Hard
ing has decided to take his vacation dur
ing August
Work on the estimates of the engineer
department of the District will not be
commenced until after the return of Col.
Harding, early In September
With number of conferences to be
held with President Wilson, at which poll
cies of the new administration will be
mapped out, Commissioners Newman and
Siddons will have little time for month
or more in which to. consider the bud
getary needs of the municipality for the
next fiscal year.
These needs, as they are anticipated
by the heads of the several branches of
the local government, are now being put
into tangible form. and will be ready for
review by the Commissioners when the
work of framing the budget actually
begins
Will Have Month for Work.
IL the-task Is commenced early IN Sep
tember the Commissioners will have more
than a month in which to complete it,
the law requiring that the estimates
shall be transmitted to the Secretary Of
the Treasury by not later than October
Is. 1t Is anticipated that there will be
the usual number of requests from citi-
zens associations and other bodies for
improvements of various kinds In many
sections of the city.
Prior to the departure Of Col. Harding
on his vacation. the Commissioners, act
ing as the public utilities commission,
Will, it Is expected. render a decision as
over taxicab companies. This question
was taken up formally at recent hear
ing given the companies. The new civil
ian Commissioners had not been sworn
present at the hearing at which the tes-
timony offered was taken down stenog-
raphically for consideration by the
board.
Should the commission decide that it
has jurisdiction over this class of car
riers. 1t will make an early investigation
of the subject of taxicab rates with the
object of changing the present tariffs
| should it consider them unjustified.
Tax Collector Gets Busy.
One Of the offices under the Jurisdiction
of President Newman which will be kept
| busy the next few weeks is that of the
| collector of taxes The books of this Of
| flee show that there are 1000 unpaid per-
4 sonal tax accounts, aSgreSaung $4,000.
| and Collector Rogers has decided to wage
/ a wholesale campaign for the seizure of
| goods to make good the delnquencies.
1 provided the accounts are not settled be-
/ fore August l. This plan has the apprOva
| of Mr.. Newman
| Mr. Rogers today sent out seven bail
| ifs to instruct deiinquents that, unless
| their accounts are settled before the lst
| of next month, property upon which the
| taxes are due will be distrained and sold
at public auction. Personal taxes are
| due in May, the law providing for the
| seizure of goods where payment is not
| made on or before June l. The law also
| provides that the property may be re-
/ plevined within ten days after seizure
| upon the payment of the tax and pen
| atty of / per cent a month, beginning
with June l. Goods not redeemed may be
| sold at public auction.