Evening star., 1923-01-24
SENATE ACCEPTS
AMENDMENTSTO
D. c. FISCAL BILL
New Ones Involving So, ,2OO.-
600 To Be Taken Up as
Offered From Floor.
MT. PLEASANT BRANCH
LIBRARY SUM AGREED TO
$500,000 for Fireproof Addition
to Courthouse Adopted; School
Building Considered.

The Senate this afternoon COM
pleted consideration Of the COMMITTEES
amendments reported In the District
appropriation bill, agreeing to them
all
Inc Senate then began considera-
tion of the amendments recommended
oy the appropriations committee.
which Senator Phipps is authorized tn
oHer from the floor. These amend
ments total approximately s2,2oO,O0o.
Inc amendment proposing the ac-
liprary in Mount Pleasant, at a cost
not to exceed $4,000, was adopted.
senator Phipps then called IN the
amendment authorizing the expendj-
suse or s5oo,ooo for the erection of
OF the District for the use Of the
recorder of deeds and such other &C
tfvities OF the District goyernment
as the Commissioners may designate
, senator Phipps explained that il
hn;Ia pnoposeo TO house in this. new
pulIolng not only the office of the
recorder of deeds, but the MunfcinaI
Court and the Juvenile Court
senator King. of Utah suggested
.hAt ~ should be possible to house
the recorder OF deeds in the huiIdinp
or the Court Of Appeals of the Dis
trlct' Senator Phipps replied, how
ever, that the committee had looked
INTO that proposition carefully and
iound there was not available space
III the court or Appeals building.
Recorder OF Deeds Building.
The Senate finally adopted the
amendment for the erection of a new
building for the recorder of deeds.
The next amendment offered By
Senator Phipps on behalf of the COM
mlttee was for the purchase OF two
new Fairgrounds sites, one occupied
ny the Hoover playground, to cost
$4,000. and the other a site at 27th
and o streets northwest, for $4,000.
This amendment also was adopted.
Ihe Senate then took up the COM
mittee amendments providing S76o.0O0
for the purchase OF sites and erection
OF new school buildings.
Earlier consideration of the District
appropriation bill in the Senate today
brought out an attack on the street
car fares charged here. Senator Nc
kellar OF Tennessee. declared that
the Public Utilities Comission and
Congress, too. had been lax in tho
matter Of compelling the street rail-
way companies to live up to their
contract to provide transportation
for a scent fare.
Senator McKellar declared that as a
war measure the street car companies
had been authorized to increase their
fares. He said that he had examined
the reports OF the companies showing
their earnings, and that it was time
that the District Commissioners and
Congress should insist that the pre-
war fares be again charged. He said
that he hoped the District committee
would report out a bill to force the
their old contracts.
King Criticixes Railways.
Senator King of Utah. a member OF
the District committee, also criticized
the street railways and declared that he
thought the District committee had not
been as diligent as it should De in
dealing with the transportation question
here.
The hope of Senator Phipps. in charge
of the District bill. when the Senate
assembled today, was that 1t would be
possible to complete the consideration of
the bill before the adjournment this
evening.
Police Items Approved.
The bill was taken up for considera-
tion Immediately after the Senate met
today. Amendments offered by the COM
mittee relating to the metropolitan po-
lice were quickly adopted, one m
creasing the item for fuel from $1,000
to $4,000, and another increasing the
item for maintenance of motor We
hicles from $4,000 to $4,000. Still
another amendment adopted provides
$4,000 for marking traffic lines for
cross walks at street intersections.
The item for fuel for the harbor pa
troll was increased from $4,000 to
$3.500.
The minor amendments for the fire
department and the health Office re-
ported by the committe were adopted
without discussion.
Under the head of charities and
correction, committee amendments
were adopted as follows:
For maintenance, custody, clothing
tory the appropriation was increased
from $4,000 to $4,000.
The item for the Casualty Hospital
was increased from $1,000 to $4,000.
The item for repairs to buildings at
the Gallinger Municipal Hospital was
increased from $4,000 to $4,000.
When the provisions for child-car-
ing institutions were taken up COM
mittee amendments increasing the
number of employees for the board of
investigating officers at $1,000 each
were adopted.
Public Buildings.
An amendment offered by the COM
sr~ al Ia FN~