Evening star., 1915-05-19
FISCAL FACTS READY
IN SHORT TIME NOW
Task Far Greater Than Supposed.
But subcommittee. Hard at Work.
Soon Will Report.

: The subcommittee of the joint citi-
Zens committee Oh the fiscal relations
| of the District and the federal gov
ernmcnt. which are collecting facts to
| be presented to the congressional com
mittee appointed to inquire into those
| relations. at a meeting of the executive
committees in the offices of Henry B. F.
Macfarland. chairman, last night re-
| ported that they will complete thSi~
labors in a short time. The original
intention was to have all the reports
ready by May Is.
1t was stated that all the subcom-
mittees were working hard and that
| it was only because the task had
proved 10 be far greater than it was
at first supposed to be that the COM
pletioir of ali reports would be de-
laXed. Partial reports have already
been submitted to the executive com
Of the committee >on financial facts,
and William T. Galliher of the same
committee. the two reports covering
the import$nt periods from 1870 to
1874 and from 1874 to 1878.
AS the executive committee has to
present its printed brief to the joint
select committee of Congress by Au-
gust, under the request of the joint Sc
lect committee and the promise of
Chairman Macfarland when he appear
ed before it at it's only meeting March
Is last all the subcommittees are
pressing their work so as to get the
complete facts before the executive
committee during the present month
Commissioners Give Facts.
The District Commissioners. who have
been forwarding the facts asked Of them
by the executive committee, in installments
as they Were completed. informed the
executive committee i'll a letter read last
night that they We're eXpediting the col
lection and preparation of the statements.
and would transmit all of them to the
executive committee within week or
ten days. except the details of the report
on the assessment and taxation of prop
erty. which was being prepared by the
assessor, and would not be completed be-
fore June. General conclusions as to as
sessment and taxation are expected
earlier, however.
In response to request from the ex-
ecutive committee. John Barrett. director
general of the Pan-American Union, has
sent complete report the fiscal rela-
tions between the governments of Brazil,
Argentine and Mexico and their capital
cities.
The executive committee expressed
appreciation of what had been done by
the District Commissioners and Di-
rector General Barrett.
More Money Needed.
The finance committee reported that
more money was needed and the ex-
ecutive committee hopes that without
further delay every citizen will send a
check for not less than 81 and not more
than s150 either to it's chairman, Mr.
Macfarland, at the Evans building, OF
| to p. T. Moran, president of the Cham
Der of Commerce and chairman and
treasurer of tho finance committee
made up of the presidents of all the
| civic organizations represented in the
| Joint citizens committee The money
is needed for the expert and clerical
assistance and the printing and post
age of the committee. and should be
subscribed promptly. large number
of subscriptions have been received
but they are almost all in small
amounts and more is needed.