Evening star., 1924-04-22
INCREASE CHARITY FUNDS.
Total Is Cut, But Some Receive
More Than Budget Asked.

while the total sum proposed under
charities and corrections is $780, 900
less than proposed i'm the budget, it
Will be found that the COMMITTEES is
proposing In number of instances
to go beyond the budget estimates"
the report continues. The activities
thus favored are the National Train
inf School for Girls, the Florence
| Crittenton Home. the Southern Re-
lief Society, the National Library for
the Blind, and the Columbia Poly
technic Institute for the Blind. The
committee feels that the reasons
which impelled 1t to propose for pro-
viding as it has for these activities
| VIII meet with the hearty approval
| of the House.
Under the Municipal Court the COM
mittee is proposing to give legal eff
| feet to an order of the court prescrib-
| ing that deposits made on demands
for jury trials shall be considered as
earned in the event that prior TO
three days before the time set for
such trials a new date for trial is
not set by the court. cases are not dis
continued or settled out of court, or
demands for jury trials are not
waived. The courts order has been
set aside by ruling Of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia on
the ground that the Municipal Court
does not have authority to assess
jury fee except for a jury trial actual
! ly held The Municipal Court contends
that without such a rule many liti-
gants would delay action render ing
a jury trial unnecessary until the date
| set for trial, when the jurymen
would have reported and earned Their
fees, the expense devolving upon the
District and federal governments.
Pay Patients q. KID
The committee is proposing that
pay patients may be admitted to the
| tuberculosis and Gallinger Munich
! hnGnifllS 4 M
only INDECENT cases may be admitted
! to these two institutions. There is
demand. the committee has been
advised for disqualification of the
character afforded at these two hos
pitfalls by persons unable to pay reg
ular hospital rates, but who prefer
I to pay to the extent Of their means.
The bill provides that money re-
Ceived from such patients shall De
deposited in the Treasury and shall
: not be available toward the support
OF the institutions as proposed III
| the budget
In the current appropriation act
! the Commissioners were authorized
and directed to acquire a site for
home and school for feeble-minded
persons and to erect thereon suita-
bic buildings at a total cost not en-
than s3s'ooo should be expended md fc for r
a site, and for such purposes the act
made available 100000. In pursu-
ance of this authority, farm con-
! tanning S21 acres of land in the i'm
mediate vicinity of Camp Meade,
/ Nd, was acquired for n consideration
! of s3S,000.
Authority is requested in the bud
| get and Is proposed in this bill TO
proceed with the development of this
property. for which purpose an ad-
ditional appropriation of $50, 900 is
! proposed. For the maintenance. in
Guiding personal services. of the i'm
provements which were on the prop
erty at the time of purchase a fur
ther appropriation of 5000 is pro-
posed. The legislation proposed in
the budget dealing with the recep-
tion and maintenance of inmates,