Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-11
HIGHWAY BODY
WILL ALL OCATE
5-M|LL|ON FUND
Hold Public Hearings to
Determine Disposition
of Appropriations.
DELEGATIONS ARE HERE
FROM ALL OVER STATE
Two.Day Session Will Open
in Senate Chamber Of Cap
itol Today a, 10.
TAKES ISSUE WITH AUDITOR
Statement of si2.npO.ON E,cess for
Highway WORK Is Denied
Inv fuicnnn
Statement of sI2.OOO.OH E,c~ss for
Highway work Is Denied
by Coleman.

Public hearings 10 determine the
final ALLEGATION of sj,i05.Oo0 for new
road WORK Viii be held today and
Commission in the senate chamber IN
the Capitol. The hearings viii De
the basis Oh which the commission
VII! ask bids and award contracts
for all construction on IN. State
highway system in 1922
Delegations from all over Virginia
re In Richmond for the hearings.
which are required by Law before
fnai ALLEGATIONS are made by the
commission. It is expected that hun.
drcds ot visitors VIII be present at
the Two sessions to urge the merits
%: the projects on which they hope
To persuade III. commission to al
locat" funds. The opening session
viii be held AT 10 o'clock this morn
ing
TIL" commission. according to a
recent statement, has approximately
63.o0o,oco available for new con.
siouer George p. Coleman last week
dr'" UP tentative schedule which
pr9vihcd FOR tn" expenditure Of so.-
$4,000. including I2lo.ooo !cf, over
from contracts awarded last year.
With the ALLEGATIONS recommended
by Commiss oncr Coleman the com
mission VIII hear those seeking TO
have funds diverted from other
projects TO be applied to those they
favor
Takes Issue with Moore.
While the commission has stated
that there viii be available the
Auditor G. Lee Moore has come out
with a statement In which he de-
c!nres that there viii be in excess
OF si2.9o0.o0J FOR highway work in
1922 This has been denied by Com
missioner Coleman and the Virg! mia
Good Roads Association The for
mer has prepared n detailed state
ment 10 onse, the figures OF Auditor
Moore which no viii make public to-
dny at the hearings.
The Good Roads Association point
ed out that the Coleman figures take
In funds for actual construction
'''''' ''' ''' ~ lSteIIi, " mere
as Auditor Moore has included in his
hgurcs all funds to he used for
maintenance and construction on III,
hiEhway system and on tho county
roads over which the highway body
has only II supervisory control. This
Commissioner Coleman said las,
night. would be fully covered in his
detailed statement.
Among the discrepancies pointed
out by the roads body Is the item Of
s2,i0o.o0o from ;he auto license fund
Under the law. only onc-,hird OF
this money can be used for con-
struction. the two-thirds going 10
maintenance. After this wear. tho
law requires that the entire amour,
go 40 maintenance, The association
also takes issue on the matter of
Federal aid. declaring that Auditor
Moore has overcstimated ihc>lmount
for 1922 by $4,000 and for 1929 nv
an even 100000
In addition to the s5.l05.00 to be
ailocatcd this year by the commits
sion, Auditor Moore shows that
there is s3.50O.OOO in the treasury
which the commission will use m
complete existing contracts. Tbcso
contracts already have been awarded
and much OF the work completcd
: Continued ,,n Pare II CoI