Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-04
Cuts in 1920 Appropriations.

House bill for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1920. shows reductions, elimina-
tons, etc. as follows:
Estimates Of SI.6OO.OOO for salary
increases. sent up separately by ex-
ecatiye order, have been omitted not
only from appropriation. buf~even
from consideration.
Canal street site for yards, stables,
shops. etc. 100000 eliminated.
Street condemnations limited to
$40 eG0 heretofore no limit. Half and
! half does not apply here.
War emergency fund. 100000 eimi
mated.
Sewers. reduction of s97 1910 (of this
1000 for suburban sewers).
Street sweeping. reduction of S36.SSS.
Parking commission, reduction $4,000
t$15,CGo for nursery eliminated)
Fairgrounds S33 0G0 reduction.
Schools, s572,0G0 reduction tof this
$4,000 for longevity pay. si0S,o00 sala
fies Of teachers. $4,000 salaries of Of
.icArs, S2ST. 900 sites.
Police. Slo2. 900 reduction (of which
$4,000 for salaries.)
Fire. $50, 900 reduction fof which
$4,000 for apparatus).
Health. $4,000 reduction fof this
$4,000 for salaries. $4,000 for Washing
ton diet kitchen elnlinatedl.
Deficiencies for police and fire relief
fund 1911-19l5, inclusive, amounting tc
$68.410.S7, eliminated.
And the following reductions:
Jail, $15, goo.
Washington Asylum. SIS.
| Home for Aged ard Infirm. s13. 900.
| National Training School for Boy
$4,000
Freedmen's Hospital. 5000.
| Garfield Hospital $4,000.
| Tuberculosis Hospital. $4,000.
Board OF Children's Guardians. $50, 800
Industrial Home School. $50 0G0.
III,
Reformatory. S31 eco,
Anacostia flats. Sal SEQ.
For 1929 as for the Immediately
preceding years the Comm is~iOners
discouraged by r9bulfs. omit from
heir estimates that substantial per-
centagc OF municipal expenditures
which in most large American cities
~ applied to outiays for permanent
public improvements.
Not only ~ this average percent
age of outlay expenditure omitted
from the appropriations. 1t does not
appear even i'm the estimates.
If provision were now made to meet
even in part the Commissioners ur-
gent recomme ndations of the last four
years IF wise municipal projects.
which Congress hns postponed. there
would be no District surplus.
See Senator Works separate report
as member of the joint congress
sional committee for a long list of
great public works or municipal ne
cessities which the nation, through
Congress, has neglected to provide
under the half-and- half system.
Every Dollar Is Needed.
Every dollar of available District
'uteiy needed aud should be now ap-
piled by Congress "a to adequate
urrent maintenance. bringing neglect
"a branches up to the mark tlike schools,
library, streets, police. firemen, etc.); (2)
o permanent public improvements and
projects of development, adding to
he municipal plant for the benefit of
posterity as we'll as the present gem
sration dixie water supply. sewers.
>arks, Anacostia fats reclamation. Great
Falls power development, etc.): and go
10 payment of legitimate District in
dehtedness.
The truth that every dollar of this
revenue is netited for capital mainte-
nance and development Is not altered
~ the fact that some congressman
> ter cutting down current mainte-
nance appropriations to the lowest
point would make little provision for
apital development along any pro-
.orrl lines. and would seize for the
rnited States the surplus of District
revenues thus uniaWfully created.
,:tber on the preteXt of some imagi-
saTy ancient debt or a refunding of
sorle payment alleged TO have been
Improperly made for the District by
he natjdn. or by. turning this unlaw-
III surplus into the Treasury IS mis-
aallaneous receipts. and thus devoting
District funds to rational uses
Exs 'uination of what has been ac-
,omplished in past administrations IN
municipal betternlent by this District
evenue above the cost of current mu-
nicipal maintenance and of what
..ecent Commissioners proposed to ac-
,o.l1pIish with it in such municipal
satterment and OF the outstanding
projects OF capital development like
he Anacostia flats reclamation. Great
falls power and greatly increased
vater-supply development and high
pressure fire-hghting system FOR the
business section will convince any un-
biased investigator that much more
than the revenues derived under the
.rganic act can wisely and economicaI-
v and in the pubic interest be ex-
pended on the wonderfully develop
ing capital
Since the tax burden imposed upon
he NnskInEtOniea by the present sys-
c,a is reasonable. neither too light
nor much TOO heavy. and since the
iund derived from this reasonable tax
alton. when doubled. will not exceed
| he amount required for capita
| maintenance and development. nj
| change or disturbance of the existing
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