Evening star., 1923-10-17
DISTRICT MAY GET
MILLION INCREASE
IN BUDGET AMOUNT
Gen. Lord Said to Be Con-
vinced of Need for Increase
in 1925 Funds.
S26, 900, 900 EXPECTED
TO BE ALLOTTED TO CITY
Schools and Streets to Get First
Call on Additions That May
Be Granted.

The District estimates for next year
may be increased from the original
limit of s25,l44,ss2 to approximately
s26,000.oo0 before they are transmitted
to Congress, it was reliably reported
today.
This reported increase. it is under
stood. would be in addition to the
100000 worth of Improvements that
are to be added in lieu of the stricken
police and fire salary increases.
The original estimates carried that
amount for raising the pay of the
uniformed forces. but the budget
bureau decided it could not. under it's
rules, recommend any salary changes
other than reclassifcation figures.
Left More Leewny.
This left the city heads room to
insert other projects 10 the sum OF
100000, and still remain within the
$25,144,SS2 limitation.
The belief was current today, how
ever, that. as a result of the convinc-
ing showing made by the municipal
authorities at the budget hearings
last week. as much as Si,00o,000
might be added to the first Limitation.
These additional items, If approved,
would be taken from the supplemental
list of $7,000.000 worth of essential
projects that had to be laid aside by
the city authorities in reducing their
preliminary estimates of S32,000,000
down to the figure fixed by the budget
organization.
1t is practically certain that in
making the s70o.O0o addition to the
estimates today the Commissioners
will give primary consideration to
the school building program, with
street improvements also coming in
for some increase.
Not Opposed to Increase.
1t is known that officials of the
budget bureau were not opposed to
increasing the pay of policemen and
firemens realizing that these men
will lose the s240 bonus next year
without getting the benefits of re-
! classification. According to reports.
/ they felt bound by their rules not to
put new legislation in the estimates.
The Commissioners. however, will
not let the police and fire salary
question go by the boards They
already have taken steps TO draft a
separate salary increase bill for in
PRODUCTION in Congress in December.
II is reared by the city headS that
il the men of those two important
departments lose see a month after
next July it would be almost impos-
sible to keep the ranks filled.
Delegation Asks Increase.
A delegation of negroes from the
Barry Farm Citizens Association to.
day called upon Director Lord of the
bureau of the budget to grant sufficient
appropriation for the improvement Of
drainage and sanitary conditions in
their neighborhood.
Headed by Ellie S. Hoffman, presi-
dent, and Henry Braxton, secretary of
the association, the delegation spent
some time with Gen. Lord at his office
at the Treasury, and presented pic
lures of conditions, especially OF
Stickfoot branch, which parallels
Sheridan road.
Stickfoot branch, 1t was said by the
delegation, now amounts to nothing
more than an open sewer, and sewage
and drainage were said to be sadly
needed. In the delegation also were
Mathew NJ. Taylor, Rev. +. w. y.
Schneewis, Yocee Fanroff and Miss
Clandine Taylor Trivers.