Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-01-25
DEFICIENCY BILL
OF $88,684,A2.14.
IS SENT TO HOUSE
Carries Appropriations of
$54,966.67 for Public
Schools of D. C..
SIS, 900, 900 FOR WAR
RISK is MAIN ITEM
Provides $4,000 for Columbia In.
stitute and Sums for Holidays -
and Leave at G. P. O.

stitute and Sums for Holidays
and Leave at G. P. o.
! Carrying a recommendation for
S55.000.000 for the bureau of war risk
insurance as its largest item. the sec
342.14. was reported to the House
late yesterday after an all-day con-
test in the committee. The commit
tee also recommends reappropriation
of unexpended balances to the amount
of s11.210.500.
The appropriations committee whit
tied down the estimates for original
appropriations $29, 145,669.13. and the
requests for reappropriation s7,34S,
1862.
Cuts ID. c. School Estimates.
The bill carries appropriations to-
falling S54.966.67 for the public schools
of the District of Columbia, a reduc-
ton of S11S,37333 from the estimates
submitted by the Commissioners. and
urged before the committee by Ernest
L. Thurston and Stephen f. Kramer,
superintendent and assistant superin-
tendent of schools.
This includes s2S,966.67 for addi-
tional teachers and $4,000 for night
item Of s1.440 for additional librarians
and clerks was stricken from the bill.
Supt. ThurSton and Assistant Supt.
Kramer and Commissioner Brownlow
asked for an increase of force to han
die the greatly enlarged demands
made on the teaching force of the
public schools of the District. Mr..
Thurston told the committee the in
crease in enrolment in the public
schools in the District has reflected
n CT yrrhn in atf s,,
the high schools, but in a smaller ex-
tent in the grade schools. He said a
high school teacher could not teach
in satisfactory manner more than
thirty pupils, and that many classes
nave more in them than the possible
maximum a teacher can handle. He
testified that many teachers are leav-
ing the public schools and are receiy-
ing $500 or $500 more than in the
schools
Mr.. Thurston asked provision for
nifty teachers in group A of class 6.
thirty-one in class and twenty-six in
classes I. and !. He also asked for
two principals of junior high schools
$1,000 for Columbia Institute.
For the Columbia Institution Of the
Deaf the bill carries 5000. DR.. Per-
clval Hall, the president, had asked
the committee for $4,000. He ex-
planned that the school had twenty
ANC Huotc InlS year imam last,
and that food alone for this increased
attendance cost $4,000. repairs $4,000
and equipment $4,000. He said that the
institution lost one of its best teach
erS, and that others are being offered
larger pay elsewhere They do not get
the $240 bonus, he said
The committee allowed the full
amounts asked for pay for holidays.
s70,1oS. and for pay for leaves of alb
sence. s70.391. at the government
printing office. This was required for
the increases in pay ordered in the
new law.
Defeats $1O,OOO.OOO for Navy.
Defeated by one vote in committee
the s10.00O,000 asked by Secretary
Daniels to keep 1900 skilled me
| was not included in the bill.
Naval officials had informed the
committee that unless the money was
made available necessary repairs to
many capital ships and destroyers
could not be made, and that 1890
navy yard employees would have to be
discharged next month.
Causes Only Fight.
Excepting naval appropriation. none
of the reductions of approximately
S30,0OO,0O0 made by the committee
caused any fight among the mem
| berS. Representative Tinkham, re-
publican (Mass), led in the fight for
the naval appropriation, supported
by the democratic members and some
other republicans. Defeated in COM
mittee supporters of the Navy fund
asserted that they would carry their
fight to the House
To increase the number of guards
at government bonded warehouses
| where whisky is stored, the commit
tee included 100000, or half the
amount asked by the internal revenue
bureau. A like sum was included for
immigration service use in deport-
LOS tfatr nFrlr
grafton.
The recommended appropriations
are very largely items of expenditure
growing out of the war. There is rec
commended for the vocational rehabii-
| itation of soldiers and sailors by the
federal board of vocational education
$4,000 900; for the care of war risk
! insurance patients by the pubnc
health service s4,5O0,000. and for the
payment of military and naval COM
! pensation by the bureau OF war risk
| insurance s55. 900. 900. making total
of $11,50O,0O0-
Principal Items in Measure.
The principal other items in the bill
! are:
Postal service. payable from the
postal revenues, s39556I136: four
teenth CENSUS, $3.50, 900; coast guard,
81, 72S.O50; public printing and binding.
| Sl,41S, 000.07; claims allowed by the
! accounting officers of the Treasury
and judgments of courts, Sl,021 ,901.60.
! enforcement of national prohibition.
81 900, 900; immigration service, regula-
ton of immigration, deportation OF
aliens and enforcement of laws
against alien anarchists. $1,000,000;
lighthouse establishment and light
house service, S957,150; relief of con-
tractors on public buildings of the
Treasury Department, 100000; all
other items of appropriation in the
bill, S3.052, 629.11.
The reduction in the estimates of
appropriate considered by the COM
mittee-s29.145 Cos. 73-is found chief
ly in the following large items:
Federal Board for Vocational Edu-
cation. 100000; embassy at Brus
sells, Belgium. ACQUISITION, S25O.000;
coast guard, S2,133,350; enforcement
of national prohibition, $l,000.000;
bureau of war risk insurance. $780,
$3.50: naval establishment, S9,700,000;
postal service. temporary clerk hire.
81. 900 900: Department of Agriculture,
European corn borer. 100000; light
house service, 1851, 500; immigration
service, S45O.O00; public printing and
binding, S671,72S and other serv-
ices. $1,732,17S.95.
The combined total of the esti-
mates of appropriations and estimates
of reappropriatiors considered by the
committee is $136,221.17S.1P ne COM
bined amount of approp . and
reappropriationS recomT ~.ou in the
bill is S99.Se4,S42.14. Which sum is
$50, 49, 36.05 less than the combined
amount of the appropriations and re-
a-oropriations requested.