Evening star., 1914-02-12
Evan H. Tucker Attacks Pend
ing Provision of District
Bill Before Committee.
NEW EASTERN HIGH
SCHOOL ADVOCATED
Other Matters, Such as Paving and
Funds for Emergency Hos
pital. Also Urged.

f:e so-caIled Rorlaud amendment to
the District bill came III for strong crit
fclsn during the hearings before the sub
committee OF the Senate appropriations
committee in charge of the District bill
today Evan II. Tucker. president of the
Northeast Washington Citizens -Associa
ton, attacked this provision of the pend
ing hll unjust ana imposition on
proper;y holders. Ii provides that the
full cost Of paving streets less than forty
feet in width is 10 he paid by owners of
ahutt.ng property.
-ilthoG~l the committee las not yet be
gun TO draft the bill as it VIII be reported
10 the Senate 1t ias been learned upon
good authority that it proposes To elini-
nate the Borland amendment.
Mr. Tucker also took vi, with the COM
mittee the need Of placing i'll the b.ll an
appropriation for continuing the work Of
improving th.. .anacostid flats. This was
cared for i'll the Commissioners esti-
mates. but the House took il out of the
bill he advocated. too. an appropriation
for site for 4 new Eastern High School
provided Congress shoiid determine not
to split up the present APPROXIMATION for
tEe Central High School as suggested by
Senate. Lane and An appropriation for
ne~ grade school ii northeast Wash
inStoIl. He asked the committee 10 place
an item in the bill for = public conven-
lence station at l5ti. and II streets north
east DR.. Percival Hall. president of
Gailaudet College Joined WIKI, Mr. Tuck
er u request that provision. De made
II the bill for Patterson Park. as recoI1-
mended by Tie District Commissioners
but cut oat by the House.
Tor New Eastern High School.
W. s Small. principal Of the Eastern
High School, appeared il the interests of
Tor new Eastern High School RecomA
Inendation for such an appropriation was
made by the District Commissioners. but
the House eliminated it from the bill
Mrs. Archibald HOPKINS, representing
tie National Ctvic Federation, asked TO
have included in The bill an appropria-
tion 70 aid in carrying on the work of
that organization, and Mrs. Thomas T..
Can urged the committee to place in the
bill an appropriation for d new Ener-
gency Hospital Senator Brandegee yes
stcrday introduced i'll the Senate q pro-
Tosed amendment to the bin providing
$1,000 for the new hospital, and this is
pending before the comluittee-
Or. j. X. p. Gleeson of the Columbia
Heights Citizens Association and &. c.
Lancaster advocated before the commit
tee an appToprja ton for an inebriate hos
pitai in the District OF Columbia. The
District Commissioners recommended al.
appropriate of $1,000 for such a hos
ptdl, but II went out ia the House.
Several Ask Street Improvements.
Representa- tives of various citizens as
socjations asked the committee TO pro-
vide for street Improvements in their
sections of the city. Marvin Mclean,
president of the Brookland Citizens AS
sociation. and Lee K Wilson, chairman
of the committee on streets Of that as
sociation. asked Tor such improvements,
and T.. j. Newcomb and F. Mckay of
the PJIoiic Improvement Association OF
Congress Heights asked for street i'm
prov oveuerts as recommended in the Com
fuIsSioners' estimates.
Yesterday afternoon the committee
heard Miss Mamie Randolph IIeth. pres
.deit of The Southern Relief Society, who
urged that appropriation be made to aid
;he society in its care of aged and de-
pendent Confederate veterans and their
families in this city
REPRESENTATIVES of the board of chari-
ties appeared before the committee and
asked that the estimates of the District
Commissioners. which were reduced in
the House, b. placed i'll the bill.