Evening star., 1924-06-07
District Tas Boosted One-Third
As Appropriation Bill Passes

r street to Virginia avenue, thirty
two feet wide, 10000.
Northeast-For paving Central ave
s7s. sss; GOO. senn'ns road to District line
Northeastern paving 18th street,
B street to z street, thirty-two feet
Southeast-For paving 18th street
B street to e street, thirty-two feet
Northwest-For paving Butternut
street, 5th street to Blair road, forty
ave feet wide, $4,000.
Davenport street to Livingston street
thirty feet wide, $4,000.
Southeast-For paving Nichols ave-
fifty-six feet wide, $4,000.
| Northeast-For paving Bladens-
burg road. end of concrete to District
line, forty-five and sixty feet wide,
Northwest-For paving wisconsin
avenue, Massachusetts, avenue to Riv-
er road, sixty feet wide, including
necessary relocation of street car
be obtained from the street railway
company so far as provided under ex-
listing law. S35o,0o0.
Southeast-For repairing and re-
bridge. $4,000.
Northwest and southwest-For
eianketing with asphalt 9TH street.
soIthwesa pressnt Width to .s5
Northwest-Paving Georgia avenue
Government Pays Third.
| Under the present bill the federal
government will contribute about 30
per cent Of the cost of maintaining
| the National Capital during the next
| fiscal year, according to Representa-
| tive Louis c. Cramton, Republican. of
| Michigan. author Of the amendment
which changed the fiscal relations.
| This was stated in reply to a ques-
ton from Representative r. Walton
Moore, Democrat. of Virginia. Repre-
| sentative Cramton said:
| Under the bill as it stands. it will
! be substantially 80 per cent. OF
course. there will be from 100000 to
| 81 200. 900 of DEFICIENCIES during the
year, but the bin as it stands is a
| 70-30 bill"
| Representative Moore also raised
| the question whether now that there
has been a lump sum appropriation
| out of the Treasury of the United
| States. if it ends the liability of the
| United States and whether the bu
reau of the budget will still function
| on District estimates.
Protection for Taxpayers.
Chairman Madden OF the House ap-
| preparations committee replied:
mo; I think now, more thu ever
before, we ought to wise and 1revent
from destruction the great govern
ment of the District of Columbia BY
keeping guard over its activities and
| protecting and preserving in every
| way the integrity of every dollar of
| the money paid into the Treasury by
| the taxpayers OF the District and pre-
vent any peculation, dishonesty, or
| waste"
The following dialogue occurred:
Mr.. Moore-"Then what is proposed
| in the future is that the government
shall pay lump sum for the support
| of the District? Beyond that the gov
ernment shall function as heretofore
| in connection with the bureau of the
| budget in restricting the authorities
| of the District in the matter of i'm
| posing taxes to raise the revenue TO
make the expenditures"
| Mr.. Madden -" We'll. I think, OF
| course, there must be some guiding
| spirit somewhere and this is the
guiding spirit over the creature of
| the government, the child of the gov
ernment, we might say. and the faith
| er must not send the child adrift, and
| We are not going to do it if l have
| anything to say about it.
Donovan's Figures Explained.
! In reaching his estimate of the in
| creased tax rate today. Maj. Donovan
| figures that the 1925 District appro-
| priation bill provides for $26,455,105
| for local expenditures. From this
| mating tax rate, is deducted $1,196.-
| $50 from the water department ap-
| preparation, since this branch of the
| government is self-sustaining.
From the total also is deducted the
gas tax item, which is in a separate
\ fund, amounting to $S25,o0o. This
| leaves S24,333,245 as the basic amount
provided for in the bill. but dehcien-
! cies appropriated for in a separate
| bill. which must be paid out of Dis
trict revenues in the fiscal year OF
1925. bring the total which will he
| expended in the District in the next
hscal year to $27,155293. And even
to this amount must be added an es-
innate of 100000 for the next years
deficiencies and 100000 to be placed
in the federal Treasury as the annual
increment toward the s3,000.000 bond
to place the District on a cash basis
in 1927, as provided for in 1928 Thus
"a grand total of S2S.255.299 confronts
Washington as the amount to be rails
ed in the next fiscal year for all eX-
lpenSes of the District.
| OF this amount the United States
will pay fat sum of $4,000. .ooa leav-
ing s19.255,3sS to be raised throush
taxation and miscellaneous local rev,-
nues.
From miscellaneous fees, license.
etc; from the intangible persona
property tax and from the tax OF
public utilities. building association,
estimatea aad .5d S%a5 goo silt ba i
-
This places upon real estate ami
tangible personal property the bur
den of raising the remainder, which
is $14 4,255,293.
Rate Put at g1.60.
Now. it is expected, the assessed
valuation of real estate in the next
fiscal year will be s7ss,oo0, 900, and
the assessed valuation OF tangible
| personal property will be 100000. 900.
Against property valued at $SS2,oo0-
600. therefore, the tax levy will be
assigned and a tax rate of s1.60 per
800 will bring the District s14,212,-
600. The remainder. it is expected,
can be cared for out OF an indicated
surplus, which will accrue from the
present fiscal year.
| The reason for the high tax rate,
Maj. Donovan pointed out, might be
found at two sources. One is that
the appropriations this year, in all,
| total $3.o0o, 600 more than last year.
The second is the abolition of the
60-40 plan and the substitution of a
plan which would be nearer the
| equivalent of q 70-30 proposition,
since the District raises SIS, ,000, 900
against Ss,o0o,00O of the federal gov
! ernment
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