Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-08
$3.50 PLAN RESTORED:
a&., $2,21O,150 ADDED TO BILL
appropriations payable by said Dis
trict in the succeeding year or years.

APPROPRIATIONS payable by SAID DIS
trict in the succeeding year or years.
Rates Of Taxntion.
Hereafter the per centum of ap-
proved estimates to be levied and as
sessed under the act Of June II, 1873,
leges in said District shall be raised
by the imposition of such rate of
taxation on realty and tangible per-
sonal property as the Commissioners
shall ascertain to be necessary to
raise annually, in combination with
expended tax surpluses Of previous
years, q sum sufficient to meet the
proportion of expenses to be paid by
the District Of Columbia under exist
ing law: Provided, however. that such
rate Of taxation shall in no event be
less than Y per centum."
Other Amendments.
Other amendments proposed by the
committee include q new statistical
clerk at $500 for the Public Utilities
Commission: for the minimum wage
shall be a stenographer at $1,000.
The District Commissioner fund for
printing all annual special reports is
cut from $4,000 to $4,000. with
proviso that authority is given the
Commissioners to discontinue the
q
ports in order to keep the expendi-
lures within the appropriation.
An item Of $4,000 for putting up
the top story Of the Court Of Appeals
building is stricken out.
The committee inserted an item Of
recorder Of deeds, including services
of cleaners not to- exceed soc per
hour.
For continuing the employment
service Office an item of 1880: is i'm,
ADSr6leiatisnssS traek Out
The Senate committee struck out
the following appropriations carried
in the House biil for street improve
ments:
Northwest For paving 1ngraham
street, east Of 18th street, thirty feet
vide. $500: for grading, 18Th street,
New Hampshire avenue to 4tE street.
forty-fve feet wide. $1O,30o.
Northwest-For paving Yuma street,
38th street to 39th street, thirty feet
wide, $l0,S00; for paving varnum
Church road. thirty feet wide, $500;
for paving 3rd street Taylor street
to Upshur street, thirty feet wide.
$500; for paving Allison street, 18th
street to 10th street, thirty feet wide.
'95.5e0; for paving Arkansas avenue.
forty feet wide. $1,000; for paving
thirty feet wide, $500; for paving
Taylor street, east of 14th street,
thirty feet wide, $500; for paving
2Sth street. south of Cathedral Avenue.
thirty feet wide. $1,000.
Northeast-For grading lexington
Terrace Pr0Hnacf t~ n
$500.
Northwest-For paving the roadway
OF New Hampshire avenue between
upshur street and Grant Circle. fifty
feet wide, with ten-foot center park
ing. ana the roadway around Grant
asphalt pavement. including resettine
existing curb where required, $37, 500.
Street Impfoveme.ts.
The committee inserted the folIow;ne
recommendations for street improve
mentS:
"Northwest-For grading End street
Laurel street to Whittier street Eastern
avenue, Laurel street to Whittier street !:
Whittier street, LIST street to End street !:
street, and Van Buren, street, LIST street.
to End street, $10.795.
"Northwest-For repaving the gram
Textbook roadway Of Georgia avenue
Florida avenue to Barry place, present
width, $31.1s5.
Howard Road-In view of the ur-
gent necessity for laying a concrete
roadway on Howard road from Nichols
avenue to a point 1000 feet west there
from, in the month Of November. 1918.
at a cost double the average cost Of
laying such roadways, one-Quarter Of
the cost Of said work shall be assessed
against AUDITING property in lieu Of one
va nj p0 4 md oil 4.
tofore levied for one-half Of said
cost ara hereby Cancelled, and the Com
missioners Of the District Of Columbia
are directed to levy a new assessment
in accordance with the provisions hereof
Rock Creek Ford Road.-The Com.
missioners Of the District Of Columbia
are hereby authorized to close that
portion Of Rock Creek Ford road ly-
ing between Broad Branch road and
Rittenhouse street upon the applica-
ton in writing Of the owner or own
ers Of all Of the property abutting on
and upon the closing Of said road the
land embraced therein shall revert to
the owners OF the abutting property"
Csntrol Of Bridge.
A Senate committee amendment pro-
vides that hereafter control Of the
Highway bridge across the Potomac
river shall be under the District Com
mlSSlOnerS.
Amendments by the committee re-
lating to the public schools include a
proviso that teachers now In the serv-
ice or hereafter appointed or trans
ferred to the Junior High School shall
possess tho same or like qualifications
to those now required Of teachers in
the normal high and manual training
high schools OF group A Of class s.
A House provision stricken out by
the Senate committee was to the effect
that no teacher, clerk or librarian in
class to s, inclusive, heretofore pro-
NOTED from one class to another. shall
receive for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1929. a less amount Of longevity
allowance than that such empioye
was receiving at the time Of his most
recent promotion.
A few increases in pay for laborers
in the schools are provided. An item
Of $1,000 is provided for equipment
grading and improving six additional
school yards for the purpose OF play
OF pupils.
Civil Oe.ters Pay.