Evening star., 1920-03-30
HOUSE PUTS 0. K.
ON $3.50 REPEAL
AND TAX RAISE
No Record Vote Asked on Big
Feature of D. c.
Bill.
GALLINGER HOSPITAL
ITEM is KNOCKED OUT
Point of Order Made by Mr.. Walsh
Against Increase for Memorial
Institution.

The House completed consideration
committee of the whole this after
noon AMI reported it to the House.
The only separate vote demanded was
on the Mudd amendment for street
improvements in northeast Washing
ton.
Speaker Gillett announced that all
the other amendments adopted in
committee of the whole were agreed
10 in the House. This included those
knocking out tie half and-half prin-
ciple of appropriating for the District
and increasing the tax rate from \.
TO 2h per cent. These questions now
House vote
The Mudd amendment for street
improvements was declared to be car
ricd. but Mr.. Sisson raised the point
CT no quorum and tie call of the
House was ordered.
The Mudd amendment for street
improvements was agreed to 22S to 81.
The District appropriation bill was
then finally passed
Hospital Items Stricken Out.
During consideration of the bill Rep
resentative Walsh of Massachusetts
made a point of order against an item
increasing to $1,500.000 the authorized
APPROPRIATION lot CONSTRUCTION OF tHe
Gallinger Memorial Hospital in the Dis
trict of Columbia The point of order
was sustained by the chair and the in
creased appropriation was stricken out.
Mr.. Davis said that the first appro-
priation of $500, 900, in the bill of 1918,
was found inadequate. and the Com
nnissioners could not make contract.
In the following year the appropriation
was increased to $600,000. and still
they were unable to undertake the
project at that price.
S1.5OO.000 Was Asked.
This year they asked the committee
for $1.500.000. with the positive as
surance that with such a sum they
can Immediately let a contract ana
enter upon construction Of the build
ing.
Mr.. Mann of Illinois said that Con-
gress had relied upon the estimate of
last year. and it seemed remarkable
20 him that the Commissioners should
now come forward with such large
Mr. sisson. In behalf of the sub
committee, said that they had looked
carefully INTO tie situation and
heartily approved the Commissioners
6 estimate for this increased appropria-
ton in order to remedy conditions
among the insaIie. sick, which the
committee had found ''horrifying."
He said they had visited places
WneTe insane are kept, ana ndO IOuHO
them strapped in bathtpbs and sur
rounded by insanitary conditions.
After viewing these things the COM
mittee had instantly resolved to ap-
prove the Commissioners estimate for
enough money to enable them to add
a psycophatic ward to the institution.
stricken Out on Point Of Order.
Mr.. Walsh insisted that the increase
was subject to a point of order and he
was sustained by the chair, with the re-
suit that the appropriation of $1,5OO,O0O
was stricken out. leaving the appropri-
2tions heretofore made as the only sums
available and which the Commissioners
have declared to be not sufficient.
After a discussion consuming the
greater part of an hour, on a point of
order raised by Mr.. Walsh, an item of
$500 for resident clerk for the Ma
tional Training School for Girls was
stricken from the bill.
Mr. Walsh also made point of or
der, which was sustained, against the
provision that expenditures for the
National Training School for Girls
shall be disbursed by the disbursing
officer of the District of Columbia.
Mr.. Johnson of Kentucky made a
point of order against the appropria-
tion for travelling expenses for the
board of children's guardians.