The Washington herald., 1914-12-06
STINGY.
IN DISTRICT BILL.
Appropriates Million and a
Half Less Than Commis-
sioners Estimated.
RAISES FEW SALARIES
Annual Budget Will Be First Supply
Measure Taken Up in
House.

The District appropriation bill. cut to
accord with the Presidents economy
policy, providing for no new project,
granting a few small salary increases
and on the whole smacking of stingi-
ness, was ordered reported from the
House committee on appropriations yes
terday and will be the first of the annual
budgets taken up when Congress con-
venes tomorrow.
The bill appropriates for the fiscal
year, beginning July l. Its salient fea-
lures are as follows:
The bill apprOpriates $11. .302 sos which
is S1,597, 100 less than the Commissioners
asked. The Commissioners asked 1858, TS1
less than the appropriation for the cur
rent fiscal year.
The bill contains no provision for sur
plus revenues. 1t provides that police
and iremen in uniform may ride on
street cars without paying, that the
Occoquan workhouse may sell its prod
ucts to the government, and that Seventh
street between New York avenue and Q
street shall be paved at a cost Of $4,000.
The bill makes no appropriations for
building a municipal hospital, erecting
fish wharf and market, remodeling
schools, furnishing Western High School,
or reclaiming Anacostia River fats for
which a total of S550,O0O was asked. 1t
increases salaries of janitors. messengers,
and laborers so none in District EN-
play shall receive less than $500 a year.
Briefly. the bill provides for the Dis
trict government as il is. nothing more.
II was drawn by a subcommittee of
which Representative Page, of North
Carolina, is chairman. The only two
members who attended hearings were
Representatives Sisson, OF Mississippi,
Absence of provision for surplus reve-
nues means that the difference between
the s., 800 900 which the District will re-
ceive from taxes and the S. 500 which
forms the Districts share of the appro-
priations must remain untouched in the
Treasury. The Commissioners are au-
thorized to sell to the government the
products of the District Reformatory. For
work on the new Central High School
$4,000 in appropriated.
The bill appropriates S1OS30O for the
construction of suburban roads as fol-
lows:
Northwest-Sherman avenue, Columbia
road TO Park road, s1S,2OO.
Northeast-V street, Lincoln road to
Second street, $500.
Southeast-Naylor road. east of Good
Hope road to District of Columbia line,
Northwest-CanaI road, south side,
5000.
Northeast-Roadway from Division
avenue and Grant street toward the
District line near Chesapeake Junction,
$500
Northwest-Georgia avenue, Irving
street to Rock Creek Church road. !
$24.5OO
Northeast-MyrtIe street. South Da-
kota avenue to Central avenue, $4,000.
Northwest-W street. North Capitol
street to Flagler place, $12,10o.
Northeast-Monroe street, Twelfth
street to Thirteenth street, S2,S0o.
Northeast-Sheriff road, end of ma
cadam to District of Columbia line,
$1,000.
Northeast-Division avenue, Wash
ington court, to Deane avenue, $500.
Southeast-Seventh street, Alabama
avenue to Nichols avenue, $500
Southeast-Pennsylvan avenue, Branch
avenue to Bowen road. 5000.
Southeast-Seventeent street, Good
Hope road to Minnesota avenue, 5000.
Total Sums Provided.
The bill appropriates $3,1sO,14O for
schools; 1856, $50 for the police department;
S711, ,4S0 for the fire department.; $l19,64O
for the health department; S9S,73O for
courts, with 1915, 40S for interest and sink
ing fund and 5000 for emergency fund;
SOS, 80 for court buildings and prisoners;
81, ,211 4s2 for charities and corrections; $75.-
3l4 for militia, and S12S,S55 for the water
department
The Commissioners did not get the S1S-
900 public comfort station they want at
Fifteenth and H streets northeast, and
they also were denied S23,7 for purchase
Of new water meters.