The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-22

National Training School for Girls,
the Florence Crittenton Home, the
Southern Relief Society, the Ma
tional Library for the Blind. and
the Columbia Polytechnic Institute
for the Blind.
THE committee is proposing that
pay patients may be admitted to
the tuberculosis and Gallinger mu-
nicipal hospitals. At the present
time only INDECENT cases may be
admitted to these institutions. There
iS a demand, the committee has
been advised, for disqualification OF
the character afforded at these two
hospitals by persons unable to nav
regular hospital rates but who pre-
fer to pay to the extent Of their
means.
THE bill provides that money
received from such patients shall be
deposited in the Treasury and shall
not'be available toward the support
OF the institutions as proposed in
the budget.
Home for .Feeble-NIinded.
"In the current appropriation act
the commissioners were authorizes
and directed to acquire a site for q
home and school for feeble.minde1i
persons and to erect thereon suit
| able buildings at a total cost not
exceeding 100000, of which NOT
more than $4,000 should be ex.
pended for a site, and for such
purposes the act made available
100000. In pursuance Of this
authority a farm containing S27
acres of land in the Immediate
vicinity Of Camp Meade, Nd, was
acquired for consideration of
| $4,000.
Authority is requested in the
Budget and Is proposed in this
bill to proceed with the development
of this property, for which purpose
an additional appropriation Of 500.
600 is proposed. For the main.
tenance, including personal serv-
ices, Of the improvements which
were on the property at the time
OF purchase a further appropria.
ton OF $4,000 is proposed.
Increasing Water Supply.
"For continuing the project of
providing an additional supply of
water for the District of Columbia,
further appropriation of $500, 900
is recommended in this bill, which
accords with the budget estimate.
This project was authorized in the
army appropriation act for the
fiscal year 1922. Originally It was
estimated that it would cost So
52S, 1000.
"A restudy and falling prices
placed the total estimated and
present authorized cost at $S,73S.-
NM
cost is $9,169,00O. The increase of
$4Sl 900 is ascribed by the chief
of engineers as due largely to the
advance in prices of constructions
materials and this bill establishes
this latest figure as the authorized
cost of the project.
There has been appropriated to
date on account Of the work, $3.-
100000, and authority has been
granted to incur obligations to the
appropriations already made. Upon
the recommendation Of the engineer
officer in charge Of the work the
committee Is proposing that con.
| tracts may be entered into up to a
total Of $S,90O,00O, toward the salts
| faction Of which $4,000, 900 has been
made available and 100000 addi-
tional is proposed to be made avail.
able in this bill.
"This is looking to the, compile
ton Of the project by July /, 1927,
and means that it will be necessary
| to provide an appropriation next
year, probably upward Of $4,000, 900,
and the remainder, between 81.
$50, 900 and $2,169, 900, for the fiscal
year 1927.
cit should be pointed out that Il
was testified that the work could
be completed by January 1, 1927,
II a larger amount Of cash were
made available, thus making It prac.
ticable for contractors to proceed
with more diapatch