Evening star., 1923-02-11
D. {. BILL TOTAUNG
$22,778,915 SENT
BACK TO SENATE
Item of S1,175,OOO for Park
way Extensions Only Point
to Be Settled.
MEASURE EXPECTED TO
PASS SENATE TOMORROW
$550,000 Stricken Out on Blan-
toms Points of Order Now
Are Restored.

Are Restored.
ACTION by the House yesterday in
approving items added to the District
appropriation bill will bring the
total carried by this bill up to $22,-
778.915, which will be the District
budget for the next fiscal year, begin
ming July 1. The Senate conferees
nave agreed tentatively to this.
The item Of $1,175.000 for proposed
purchase of land for parkway exten-
sfons Is the only item on which the
House insisted upon its disagreement
This appropriation was added by the
Senate, but the House conferees have
an understanding with the Senate con
ferees that IL the House will not yield
the Senate conferees are ready to rec
ommend to the Senate that if this is
the only item in disagreement the Sen
ate should accept the bill as finally
passed by the House yesterday.
Formal action by the Senate tomor-
row, agreeing to the bill as it pass
ed the House late yesterday, is ex-
pected to settle the matter.
One Important Change.
OF much interest to the people Of
Washington, especially those organ
| izations which have for SO long
| fought the proposal to locate the
| school for feeble minded at Blue
| Plains, Va, is the amendment adopt
| ed by the House which would allow
| the location of this institution in the
District or in nearby Maryland or
Virginia territory, where g. suitable
| site can be found.
| Representative Cramton of Michi-
| gan, chairman of the House con-
| ferees, announced that the confer
| ence report on the bill shows the
! smallest increase over the House fig
ures in any District appropriation
bill in the last twenty years.
The bill as it now stands carries
the current appropriations and STE
215 below the budget recommend
tion and $1,691,070 less than the bill
as passed by the Senate.
| AS the bill is now drafted $500,
I 600 represents the part that the fed
eral Treasury contributes to the up
keep of the National Capital, Repre-
sentative Cramton said.
Items Approved.
| The House approved items totaling
| s631,00o, of which So50,000 represents
items reported originally by the
| House appropriations committee and
| stricken out on points of order by
| Representative Thomas l.. Blanton Of
| Texas, as follows: Mount Pleasant
branch library, $4,000; playground
sites, $4,000; school buildings and
grounds, 100000.
| The amendments agreed to in con-
| ference include garbage removal.
| $4,000; lighting, $4,000; land adjoin-
| ing Dunbar High School, 100000, and
repairs to school buildings, $4,000.
BY a committee amendment $111,032
for the maintenance of Fairgrounds is
to be paid wholly from the revenues
of the District, while the appropria-
| ton of $4,000 for playground sites IS
| to be made on the 60-40 proportion,
respectively, from federal and District
| revenues.
An item of $4,000 for the Nationah
Training School for Girls is restored
10 the bill.
An item of 5000 for shelter, band
stands and comfort stations at Hams
Point, in East Potomac Park, is car
ried.
An increase of $4,000 for a library
for the blind is included.
An increase of $1,000 is carried for
the Columbia Polytechnic Institute.
Provide Deeds ONCE.
The House voted to recede and con-
cur in the Senate item for a building
for the recorder of deeds, with the
following amendment:
"The achitect of the Capitol, in col
Elaboration with the Commissioners OF
the District of Columbia, shall pre-
Ipare plans for the erection of fire
Iproof addition to the courthouse OF
the District of Columbia for the use
Of the Office of the recorder of deeds
and such other activities of the gov
eminent of the District of Columbia
as the Commissioners may designate,
including fireproof vaults and heat
ling and ventilating apparatus; and
such plans, together with an esti-
mate of the cost of construction in
accordance Herewith shall be trans
mitted to Congress on the first day
of the next regular session"
The new language written into the
Ibill by the House covering the item
| of $4,000 for the National Training
School for Girls was as follows:
"The president of the board Of
| trustees OF the National Training
School for Girls of the District of Co
| lumbia is hereby authorized and di-
rected to purchase a tract of land of
not more than one hundred and sixty
acres, situated in the District of Co
lumbia or in the state of Maryland
or in the state of Virginia, as a site
for the use of said school, and the said
board of trustees is hereby authorized
TO construct on said tract buildings of
sufficient capacity to accommodate not
more than $50 persons. the plans and
| specifications for which shall be pre-
pared by the municipal architect of
the District of Columbia.
The purchase price for the said tract
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