The Washington times., 1922-01-24
DISTRICT 5
BUDGET IS
SLASHED
House Subcommittee Prunes
$6,496, 1896 From Dawes
. Estimates.

The subcommittee on District ap-
preparations today reported to the
House that It will cost $20,391.-
679.80 to run the District govern
ment during the fiscal year begin
ming July /. 1922.
This recommendation is $6.496,-
6S6.95 below the estimate Of $685.
S8S, ,366.75, which was submitted by
Brfgadier General Dawes, director
,of the budget. Last years appro
priation was $23, ,001 ,566,74.
Time, Set for Debate.
Congressman iMondsll. Republican
leader, has set aside Thursday and
Friday for the consideration Of the
bill by the House.
Proposed salary increases were
turned down. However. General
Dawes recommendations regarding
salaries OF Walter @. Allen. execu-
tive secretary of the Public Utilities
Commission, and superintendent
william H. Meyer, IN charge Of
penal institutions, were approved.
The salary Of each man In cut $500,
from $4,000 to $500.
schools Fare Best.
The public schools fare best IN the
subcommittee's recommendation. An
appropriation of s1.7l1 900 for school
construction IL included In the bill.
OF this amount, 1900,o is for COM
pletion of the Eastern High School,
100000 for completing q twelve-room
addition to the Wheatley School; $780,
600 for completing junior high school
north Of Taylor street and east OF
Fourteenth street; 100000 for COM
pleting junior high school In the VI
cinity of Gage. Emery and lexington
schools, located near Lincoln road
and T street northeast.
The committee provides for three
new buildings. One eight.room build
ing In the Ingleside section to cost
$40, 900; one eisht-room building as
an addition to the Garrison School to
cost $4,000 and q two-room build-
ing to replace the present one-room
Chain Bridge Road School, costing
$25, 900, is recommended.
School children were favored In an
other section of the bill. The commit
tee provided an appropriation Of
SIS, 900 TO purchase site for a play
ground near Twenty-first and +
streets northwest and also SIC, 900 for
keeping open rs school Fairgrounds
during the summer.
A request for a ss,ooo,ooo appropria-
ton for extending the work on prob
ect for increased water supply was
rejected. .
Twelve More Firemen.
The bill includes a provision for
one lieutenant and twelve additional
firemen In the District Fire Depart.
ment. These men, It IL understood,
would be assigned to fire prevention
work. In the estimates twenty-five
additional firemen were asked.
The estimate for seventy-five add.
tional patrolmen in the Police De.
partment was turned down. The
committee assigned no reason for its
refusal to increase the police force.
The bill proposes an appropriation
Of $150.000 for continuing the recla.
nation and development of Ana
costa park below Benning bridge,
This sum will complete the dredging
work below that bridge. Work
above the bridge, including the ac'
quisition Of land, In estimated to
cost $1,424,000 and the committee
said II did not feel Il would be wise
to commence that part Of the prof
ect until the lower portion 10 out
Of the way.
No appropriation IL proposed In
the bill for the washington Asylum
Hospital. The committee states that
there Is no necessity for any appro
priation for this hospital, since the
new Gallinger Municipal Hospital
will have two hundred beds ready
for occupancy by next July. The
new hospital, the committee says
,urfIt ahsorh tho old fnatittfttor
The committee found that the
Columbia Hospital, Twenty.fifth street
and Pennsylvania avenue northwest,
which occupied Government-owned
lnnd and buildings erected at the
expense Of the District and Federal
Government, has been accommodating
reserve and that II has invested
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