The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-18
CITY HEADS
PROTES
TOL0RD
Projects Planned by City for
Development Cut Shore By
Reduction in Estimates.

The estimates which the Com
missioners have been permitted u
submit to the Federal Budget Blu
reau are mot adequate for the
health and comfort Of the people.
With this dictum, the District
Commissioners kicked over the
traces today and protested, through
Auditor Daniel j. Donovan, against
10 uagid retrenchment policy die
tated BY Director Of the Budget
H M. Lord.
Development Halted.
In the letter to the budget 81
rector, Major Donovan, with the
Commissioners approval, showed
how Washington's development
must stand still for year because
Of scant appropriations.
The first estimates submitted %
the budget bureau totaIed s32 ,5ss.
702.82. BY order Of General Lord,
the Commissioners were forced %
cut down this figure to $25,144, $50.
1T is needless to say that
great city like Washington Is
living and growing thing and that
| its activities cannot be conducted
upon the basis Of a constantly
Major Donovan declared iii his
letter. Appropriations made solely
i on the basis pf the allowable estir
mates will mean retrogression, not
| progress. s
i New Total So -, s. IS.
IT is shown in the letter that the
supplemental estimates, which the
budget chief allowed the District t0
submit, totaIed sT.103.084. This.
amount, with the general revised
i estimates, makes new total 81
$32,247 1856. The Commissioners
ask that this sum be included iii
the Federal budget to be submitted
to the next term of Congress.
The estimates proper are classi.
i fled in the letter as follows:
Chargeable to the revenues Of the
i United States and the District of
Columbia, 22,s41, 06O.50; chargeable
to the revenues of the District water
i department, $1,036.860; permanent
nd indefinite appropriations,
4 nues, $4,000: trust and special
funds. no part of which IS charge.
able either to Federal or District
revenues, $1,226.961 so.
The Commissioner and Major
I. Donovan hold, in their letter. that
the estimates proper, together with
the supplemental figures, represent
the minimum amount that should
be spent during the fiscal period
treated, IF the people of the District
I are to be adequately served: IL reaf
sonable conditions as to comfort
and sanitation are to exist, and il
the progress and growth of the city
are not to be retarded. !"
i Projects Halted.
4 The estimates, proper and sun.
Elemental, as they now stand
mean, according to the letter. that
It is impossible ito ask any in
. crease in the personnel of the police
force and the fire department. To
] include any provision for such i'm
) portan items as the acquisition Of
the kl1ngle Valley, Piney Branch
and Patterson tracts for mark MIR.
poses: to acquire additional land
for Fairgrounds, nor initial funds
! for the development of the present
unsightly water front: to include
any sum for continuing construc.
ton of the home for the feeble
minded, nor any amount for stables
for the engineer department, nor
an initial appropriation for com.
mencing the erection of a building
: to house the offices of the Recorder
of Deeds and the municipal md
Juvenile courts"
Major Donovan's letter explains
that, in order to bring the estimates
within the limit set by General Lord
! 1T has been necessary to reduce
!. greatly the figures presented by Dis.
trIct departmental heads.
These figures, the letter states.
"had been prepared to cover merely
those lines that were regarded as if1-
dispensable in the proper admins
tration of this large and rapid.v
growing community"
City Health at Stake.
The limited total which the Com
missioners are permitted to submit 4
it's declared, lis not adequate FOR.
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