Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-30
Measure Ordered FavorabIy
Reported - Teachers In
crease Bill to Be Rushed.
SCHOOL AND CITY HEADS
TO BE HEARD MONDAY
Move to Add Two to Public Utili-
ties Commission Also
Approved.

The Senate District committee today
ordered reported favorably the police
and firemen's pay bill, and later
Senator Ball, chairman of the Dis
trict committee, submitted the report
and the bill was placed on the
calendar.
The bill as reported is identical
with the bill as it passed the House,
except that Senate committee in
creased the salary of four inspectors
in the fire department from $4,000 to
$3.50 each, and made the bill apply
also to the park police.
The school teachers pay bill was
considered by the committee but ac-
tion was deferred on the motion of
Senator King of Utah, SO that the
full committee might have an oppor-
tunity to hear the District Commis-
sioners and Superintendent Ballou of
the public schools They will be
heard at a meeting of the committee
at pm. Monday.
Farley Action to Be Asked.
After this hearing, the committee
will be asked to act promptly on the
bill so that it may be reported to the
Senate without further delay and
passed at the present session of Con-
gress. Senator King, who asked for
his opinion there would be plenty of
time to put the bill through.
Senator Kings attack on the teach
er's pay bill was directed at some OF
sisted were too high. He also urged
the abolition of the Office of super
vising principal, declaring that they
were not needed. There are thirteen
of these officials
Senator Capper of Kansas defend
ed the teachers pay bill as it pass
ed the House, and said that in his
opinion the increases provided for
the teachers and the school officials
were we'll deserved. Senator Shep-
pard of Texas also expressed the
opinion that the teachers should have
the increases provided in the House
bill. He said that the teachers were
VIGOROUSLY underpaid for the work
they do, and that the government
should set the example to the coun-
try of paying adequately for work
performed.
Cites Increased Costs
Senator King declared that the
salary schedules for the District
schools proposed in the Keller or
House bill would increase the total
annual salary bill from three million
dollars plus to gwen million dollars
plus"
This was not a fair statement or
the case, Senator Capper declared.
since only under the supposition that
all OF the school teachers would re-
main in the service for ten years or
more and be advanced to the maxi
mum rates would the total salaries
for the teachers reach more than
S7,000,000. He pointed out that many
teachers drop out of the system every
year. Senator Capper presented
table also which showed that the in
under the Keller bill would be s415,-
$50; in the fifth year. s1,269,355; in
the tenth year. s2.177,460, and in the
fifteenth year, S2,2S3, 145.
This table showed also the annual
pay bill for the teachers under exist
ing law was $4,764,S50, and that under
the Keller bill it would be S5,1S0,S00;
in 1929. it would be under the present
law. .s4,s4s,S45. and under the Kel-
ler bill, S6,21S.7o0: in 1884 S5.03S,640
under existing law, and S7.211, 100 un-
der the Keller bill and in 1899 S5.0S3.-
S55 under existing law and S7.S17,000
under the Keller bill. These figures
he said, were based on the premises
that the teachers would all remain in
the service and reach the maximum
rates.
Asks Further Information.
Senator Ball, chairman of the com
mittee, agreed that it would be well
for the committee to have more light
from the school authorities and the
District Commissioners, particularly
on some of the larger increases In
salaries proposed, and the proposal
of Senator King that these officials
should be heard by the full commit
tee was then adopted.
Senator King insisted that the Dis
trict Commissioners were opposed to
the Keller bill salary increases, but
Senator Capper was equally insistent
that the Commissioners had acqui-
esced in the proposed salaries.
The salary schedule for the park
police inserted in the police and fire
mems pay bill by the Senate commit
tee is as follows: Lieutenant, $2,70o:
first sergeant, $2.400; sergeants.
$4,000; privates, class three, $4,000
privates, class one, s1,700 each. These
rates are, except in the case of the
lieutenant and first sergeant of the
park police. 500 less than the corre-
spending salaries fixed for the metro
politan police because the park police
have their uniforms furnished by the
government
Asks Beauty Protection.
Senator King strongly urged that
something be done to strengthen the
present coming law so as to protect
the City of Washington from dis
figuring structures and to maintain
beautiful residential sections. Senator
Edwards of New Jersey, who has
conferred with Engineer Commits
sioner Bell and his assistant, Mai.
Wheeler, said that he believed there
is at present law enough on this mat
ter, with one or two minor changes
He was instructed by the committee
to bring in bill making those
changes.
The Senate committee ordered a fa
vorabie report on bill introduced
by Senator Ball after consultation
with the District Commissioners,
amending the public utilities act so
as to provide for adding two mem
bers to the Public Utilities Commits
sion who should give their whole
time and attention to the work of
that commission. The District Com
missioners under the terms of the
bill would continue to serve also as
members of the Public Utilities Com
mission.
The bill provides that one of the
new commissioners shall be a lawyer,
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