Evening star., 1921-05-17
FOR D. c.
CUT NEARLY TWO
IN DEFICIENCY BILL
Washington Gets Only $685.
981.52 to Clear Up Costs to
July | in Reported Bill.
TOTAL OF $1OO,68O,427.25
i'm APPROPRIATION REPORT
Departmental Figures Reduced
From $119,6o6.33 in Sec
ond Emergency Request.

ond Emergency Request.
In the second deficiency bill report
ed TO TIE House today, to clear up the
costs of manta ming Uncle sam
workshop until July |. the Distrlct
gets s29s,9S1.52, which is
ius. a little more than half the amount
estimated by the District Commits
sioners The estimate submitted was
s54S,3Sl.522.
The total recommended in the re-
port of the House appropriations COM
mittee is slO0.sso.427.2o, which ia
sll9,60s.33s.Os less than the amount Of
the estimates submitted by the ad-
minStrative officials.
The principal items OF reductions IN
the estimates are as follows: Dlsirtct
OF Columbia government, incluhi ns
100000 for water supply. s-a9'soo
Shipping Board. 1o9hoo.uo": treasury
building. additional building for vault
space, $1,000. 900: public buildings
operating supplies. 100000: quarah-
tine, improvements at. s1.o94.9lo: bu-
reau Of engraving and printing. S1'i,
o625U SchofieId barracks. IL. L. water
system, 100000; naval establishments
including $4,000 for pay misce liza :
- t,Df La
yards and docks, s1.50o.ooo: for I'm :
provements at navy yards, sl32,3o"'
for Norfolk dry dock, Ssoo.0oo for Key
West naval station. s750,0oo; for mann
tenance bureau of supplies and ac-
counts. and 100000 for fuel. $3.50
141.17: bureau of standards teilmina =.
ton Of direct estimates-fuil amount
Of items provided by transfer OF
fundsJ. S210.06n: government printing
office, slS300o; all other reductions,
s1,ll7.624.41
Summary Of Recommendations.
The summary of recommended ap-
preparations by departments IS as
follows:
Library Of Congress, $4,000; Civil
Service Commission. $1,000: District OF
Columbia. 29S,9s1.52; Federal Board
for Vocational Education. s15,O00.oo0;
Shipping Board. s6l. .s55. .633.33: State
Department.. $4,000: Treasury De-
partment. s1o,406,420.13: War Depart t.
ment. $4,000; Department Of Justice
pnst nited ocs sta1es f0uGat
sas 900: postal service. si.sos. So 81
Navy Department. s5.421.05: naval
establishment. ss4s3. .303.25; Interior
Department. $133.261.73; Department
of Agriculture. $4,000: Departmen nt
OF Commerce. $S33.245: Department OF
Labor. $4,000; legislative. $152.soO;
government printing Office. s496,O0.. 20:
Court Of Claims. s11.579.4S; United
States district courts. $21, 1918; audited
claims. s610,9s
Amount for District Services.
The various services in the District
government for which appropria tions
are recommended. with the amounts
carried in the bill, which are almost
invariably substantial reduction
from the estimates. are as follows:
Employees compensati ton fund. $500:
rent commission. $4,000; Public Lii
brary. maintenance. repairs. ETC., $50:
contingent and miscellaneous. print
ing, books. etc. s2,500; office of
weights. measures and markets. $500:
advertising. etc. $500: printing re-
ports. etc. $60l.04: sewers. cleaning
and repairing. $1,000; electrical de
partment. supplies. etc. $1,000. Public
schools: Night schools. sl', a2oo6; fuel
gas. electric light. etc. 10000: trans
portation of tubercular children. S3ao;
instruction of blind children. s36950.
Fire Department.: Contingent ex-
penses. S2,5O0: fuel etc, $500. Health h
department: Prevention of contagious
diseases. $4,000: motor vehicle. main
tenance of, 5000: dispensarieS. main
tenance of. $3.50. Juvenile Court: Com
pensation of jurors, $500: fuel. ice,
gas. etc. 1915. Municipal Court: Con-
tingent expenses $4,000 for 1929.
$4,000: additional employees 'fiscal
of jurors Fiscal year 1929. $4,000:
lodgings. meals, etc. for jurors Fiscal
year 1929. 800; reDairs and altera
tions to building fiscal year 1929.
1000: furniture and equipment (fiscal
year 1929. $1,000, Police Court. COM
pensation of jurors. sl,19s: writs of
lunacy. $1,000.
Courts and prsons-Support of con-
victs. $4,000: Supreme Court, fees, for
witnesses. $4,000: pay of bailiffs.
$1,000: miscellaneous expenses. $4,000
Charities and tional
Training School for Girls. $1,000: CO.
lumbia Hospital. $4,000; tuberculosis
Hospital. $4,000: board of childrens $
guardians care of feeble minded chill
dren. $4,000: care Of other children.
tenance, $1,000; St. Elizabeth's Hos
pital. support of INDECENT. SS5.0O0:
judgments. s21.s09.s1; audited claims.
$l4.573.6,
Items Cut From Estimate.
District items in the measure were
cut from the estimate in the following
amounts: Sewers. cleaning and re-
pairing. $1,000: electrical department
supplies. $500: care of small school
buildings and rented rooms 400: re-
pairs and improvements to schools.
$4,000: instruction of blind children.
5000; for fire department contingent
expenses. $4,000; for fuel. $4,000: for
dairy inspections. health department.
$1,000; maintenance of motor vehicle
for the health department. $500: main
tenance OF dispensaries. $3.50; compen-
sation for Municipal Court jurors, for
fiscal year 1922, $4,000; Industrial
Home School for Colored Children.
$4,000: increased water supply, $780,
900 Uhis item has been inserted in
the Army appropriation bill by Sem
ate subcommittee).
Hondr rick IN Get Salarv
Conspicuous among the legislative
limitations in the bill is the follow
..The accounting officers Of the Dis
trict OF Columbia are Authorized to
pay to J. Thilman Hendrick the sal
ary of a Commissioner of the District
of Columbia for the period from Sep
tember II. 1920. to March 4. 1921. in
elusive. Notwithstanding the provi-
sions Of section 1861 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States.
Among the estimates which were
not allowed were these for the bu-
ruea of engraving and printing: Sal
aries of employees. $l93.S00: wages of
plate printers, s44,62S; engravers and
printers materials, $112.837.
In the general land office. Interior
an allowance of $32.800
is made for additional employees for
the fiscal year 1922, which is half of
the amount asked.
the appropriations recommended. in
most of the larger items 80 per cent
from the estimates. are.
Public printing and binding: Lii
brary of Congrss, $4,000; Smithson-
ian Institution to continue available
during fiscal year 1922, s36.702.70
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