Evening star., 1923-01-21
City Money Measure Ready
for Action Now Carries
$22,2A,485.
So, 100000 ADDITIONAL
TO BE URGED ON FLOOR
Extra Provision for Schools Pro.
vided in Amendments Phipps
Gets Leave to Offer.

The District appropriation bill for
the fiscal year 1924 was reported to
the Senate late yesterday by Senator
Phipps, in charge of the measure.
carrying a total of $22,244,4s5. This
is s165,s78 more than carried in the
House bill.
At tn. same time that the Senate
appropriations committee authorized
the report of the District bill it au-
thorized Senator Phipps to offer from
the floor of the Senate further amend
ments recommended by the commit
tee, aggregating approximately
s2.2oo,ooo.
these committee amendments in the
bill when reported, but fearing a
point of order might be made against
one or more of them on the ground
that they were new legislation or not
estimated for in accordance with law.
and that under the rules of the SEN
ate the bill could then be ordered
recommitted, the committee decided
to follow the plan adopted and offer
these amendments as committee
amendments when the bill is taken
up for consideration. 1t is expected
that the bill will come up for con-
sideration either late tomorrow or
Tuesday.
Net Increase $1e5,s7s.
Had the committee included all
>,.xc t. - =
bill, the measure as reported to the
Senate would have carried q tota,
OF approximately s24,444,4S5.
The total increases In the bill as re-
ported by the committee. were $361,S7S.
But the committee recommended de-
creases totaling s196,000, which makes
the net increase in the bill $165,S7S.
The committee. in recommending
amendments providing total increase
erously with the District School items
stricken from the House bill on points
of order were restored and new items
added. The committee has recommended
amendments providing total increase
for the schools of about s760,GU0. 1t
has recommended s675.000 for parks,
the Klingle valley, Piney Branch tracts
and a portion Of the Patterson tract.
1t also recommended an amendment Of
100000 for building new office for
the recorder Of deeds of the District.
The committee has recommended. too,
an amendment providing $4,000 for u
site for a branch of the Public Library
in Mount Pleasant, and another provid-
ing $4,000 to purchase two new play
ground sites.
Heeds District Plea.
IF the committee had its way, the
pleas of officials and residents of the
District against the erection of the pro-
posed home for feeble minded in the
Blue Plains, ID. c. tract, will be needed.
1t has recommended an amendment re-
pealing the existing law which places
tho home in the Blue Plains tract, 'au-
thorizes tho Commissioners to secure a
suitable site in the District, Maryland
or Virginia, at q cost Of not more than
$4,000. authorizes a total expenditure
Of 100000 for this home, and provides
that s125,000 of this amount Shall be
Immediately available.
The committee also has recommended
AN amendment providing $4,000 for
two new buildings for the National
Training School for Girls, to be located
in the District, Maryland or Virginia.
These buildings are to accommodate not.
more than $50 persons, and 100 acres
are to be provided for site. !.
/ When it came. to deal with the ap-
propriations for. school buildings and
sites the committee recommended in
an amendment which will be offered
from the floor by Senator Phipps an
additional sum of $760.00o, which, IL
adopted, would make the total appro-
priations for these purposes $1,460,-
o0o, as the House bill carried, s700. 900.
Not only did the committee in this
proposed amendment restore the
items which were knocked out on
points of order in the House, totaling
$500, 900, but 1t added $260;0eo, for
new projects. This important addi-
ton to the school building program,
including both the items knocked
out in the House and the new ones
proposed by the committee. follows:
For the purchase Of site on which
to locate . sixteenrreom building be-
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