Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-20
Requirements of District.

The quarter of million dollars asked
for by the Commissioners of the District
of Columbia is divided as follows:
For the public utilities commission for
necessary personal and other expenses in
making valuations of public utilities pro-
vided for by the recent act creating the
commission. $119.c00: for contingent and
miscellaneous expenses. SIS; sewers, ad-
ditional amount required for purchase OF
certain rights of way, S76.65; for addi-
tional amount required for longevity pay
of teachers, $32,910: additional amount
required for maintenance of police motor
vehicles, 81. 100; additional amount for
INDECENT insane. S3 144.57; for the National
Guard of the District of Columbia. four
separate items total s5.450.50. one of these
being a bill of S3014 from the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad for the transportation
and freight service in connection with the
1912 encampment. and another being
$1,4s7 for pay of the brigade rifle team
at Camp Perry, Ohio. in the late summer
of 1913
The additional amount required by the
board of childrens guardians is SO 600;
refund of erroneous collections 500. -;
to reimburse James F. oyster. late presi-
dent of the board of education, for
amount paid in settlement of judgment
for costs in the case of Mary Z. Nalle a
case involving pay of teachers. SlS32o:
for amounts required to pay judgments
against the District. S66l5.45; for the sup
port of convicts, sj9.322.95. and for va
rious miscellaneous items, SlO,J29.oS Is
wanted.
The civil service commission wants
s23.5OO for travelling, stationery, printing
and binding.
Owes Money for Relief.
The State Department asks. among
other things. for an additional $40 152. ~
for the relief of destitute American citi-
zens in Mexico. The amount is required,
it Is explained. to reimburse the War De-
partment for expenses incident to sending
the army transport Buford to ports on
the west coast of Mexico in September
and October. 1913 for the purpose of pro-
viding transportation for refugees to the
United States.
For the mechanical equipment. furni-
ture etc, for the new building. bureau
of engraving and printing, an additional
$22s. 800 is asked. This will include the
cost of covering over the root to be oc-
cupied by lunchroom fixtures.
For the completion of the new Wash
ington post office $4,000 is needed The
parcel post business calls for repairs
and engagements all over the service,
for which an added 500 Ui0 is asked. Be-
cause the current appropriation for TAX
ing care of public buildings is far too
Z.
the sum of $3a.HO0 is asked by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury.
The civil establishment of the Navy
Department asks for a deficiency ap
preparation of S14.30O, nearly all of it to
go to the photographic office; the naval
establishment finds itself sil4,1S9 short
on the pay of officers and men. due. it is
explained by the amount needed being
underestimateu.
An increase of twenty students at Co
lumban Institution for the Deaf, to-
gether with certain other miscellaneous
increases, calls for an additional 5000.
Secretary Wilson of the Department of
Labor makes an urgent appeal for S221.-
0uo which he says is absolutely neces-
sary to run the department III anything
like the proper manner. He asks for
clerical help for his own office in addi-
ton to the force already there. amount
ing to $2O.6GO a year more than at pres
ent; for contingent expenses, SlI,H'o; to
appoint commissioners of conciliation.
$1,000; for expenses of regulating immi-
grafton, $4,000; per diem expenses of
special agents. etc. $4,000.