Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-14
REMADE D. c. BILL
IS BEFORE SENATE
Carries Total of $3,O2O,185
More Than Was Provided
by the House.
BLOW AT HALF-AND-HAlF
CUT OUT BY COMMITTEE
Provision for Biennial Assessment
of Real Estate and Other
Changes Are Made.

After striking out the House
rider abolishing the half-and-half
plan, and after restoring the Ian
guage of the present law making
appropriations for the District on
the half-and-half basis, the Senate
appropriations committee today
reported the District bill to the
Senate favorably.
The Senate committee added to
the House bill 5000, ,IS5. .62. The
amount carried by the bill, as re-
ported to the Senate, is SI4o53,-
oo2.o6, which is about a half a
million dollars less than the estl-
mate for 1917, and exceeds the
existing law by S3,oo2,oo5.5I.
The principal increases made in the
bill were for public schools. for the
proposed Patterson and Dean parks
and for improvements and repairs of
streets.
The Senate committee inserted a pro-
vision that hereafter assessments of
real estate in the District for the pur-
pose of taxation shall be made bien-
nially instead of trennually, as re-
quired by law. This amendment is de-
signed to meet the criticism that the
assessments in the District are not kept
up to date.
Besides striking out the rider doing
away with the half f-and-half plan, the
Senate committee also struck from the
bill all those provisions which were
inserted by the House in pursuance of
the plan to abolish the halfand-half
The committee also struck out the So
called Borland amendment providing
streets shall be assessed against prop
erty abutting the side of the street so
improved.
The House provision authorizing the
District Commissioners to assess and
collect rent from all users of space oc-
cupied under the sidewalks and streets
in the District is stricken out
The salaries of the District Commits
sioners remain the same. $1,000. al
though the subcommittee has recon-
mended an increase to $4,000.
The same is true OF the salaries in
the Public Library.
Stops Excise Board Salary.
The committee inserted provision.
based on an amendment onered by
Senator Sheppard of Texas. which would
prevent any member of the excise
board whose nomination has been re-
jected by the Senate from receiving
any salary under this bill. This is d.
rected especially at Gen. Robert G.
Smith, whose nomination the Senate
rejected many weeks ago and who has
remained on the job in spite of this
For the enforcement of the child la
Dor law provision is made for two In,
spectors at $1,000 each, with the added
provision that the detail OF two pri-
Yates of the police force for the en-
forcement of this act shall be diseon-
tinued
| of the original plan of the Rock creek
and Potomac parkway commission TO
| extend Rock creek parkway on the
| southeast.
| tborized and directed to locate the Bar
| tholdi fountain now in the Botanic
Garden, when the removal thereof is
| determined upon. on the circle at the
| intersection of Columbia road, Harvard
And Mount Pleasant streets on 10Th
| street.
| The Senate committee placed an item
| of $l50,003 in the bill for the new mu-
nicipal hospital called s..n. the Gaiiinsef ts
| 1t be located on the site now owned by
the government at 14th and -Upshur
| streets northwest.
Sale Of Land Ordered.
| The District Commissioners arc au-
thorized and directed to sell the land
contained in the old right of way Of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany within the square bounded by 9Th
and 7th and 1 and K streets northeast
Efor cash at a price to be fixed by the
Commissioners based upon the true
value of the land as determined by the
hoard of District assessors. The money
from the sale is to be deposited in the
Treasury one-half to the credit of the
United States and one-half to the credit
of the District of Columbia
| included in the bill. The principal of
! the Central High School is to receive
| $4,000 and is to be entitled to an in
| crease of 800 year for fve years.
The principals Of normal high and man
| ual training high schools are to receive
! $4,000 each as basic salaries and shall
| be entitled to an increase of 800 year
for five years.
Other Increases Proposed.
Provision is made for the expendi-
| ture of $1,000 for the proper care and
| supervision Of children in the vacation
schools and Fairgrounds. The amount
appropriated for longevity pay is in
| creased from $45o.0o0 to s4s6.0o
The Municipal Court judges are given
an Increase in salary from $4,000 to
$4,000 each
The language of the House bill re-
Hating to the Columbia Hospital for
women is stricken out and a brief para
graph inserted carrying $4,000 for the
care Of INDECENT patients ut that hos
patal Provision Is made for q new mu-
nicipal lodging house at $4,000.
| The Senate committee inserted pro-
vision authorizing tho commanding
| general Of the National Guard Of the
District to enter into contract for the
| lease of an armory. stable. etc. for the
| cavalry, field artillery, signal corps
ana hospital corps. in one building or
separately for q period not to exceed
five years at an annual rental not to ex-
ceed $S.so6.
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