The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-22
DEF FUNDS
HEAVILY
CUT
Decrease Of Nearly sic, 900,
600 Made From Amount 4
Asked by Budget Bursau.

600 Made From Amount
Asked by Budget Bureau.
Heavy cuts in appropriations
for the District Of Columbia for
the coming fiscal year have been
made by the House Appropriations
Committee in the annual appropri-
alton bill reported to the House
this afternoon.
The committee slashed the al
lowances for the District to $2S,-
1851, q decrease Of nearly $1O,-
100000 from the amount requested
Of the Budget Bureau by the Dis
trict Commissioners. This is a
cut Of 81, 1891, 1888 from the amount
allowed by the Budget Bureau and
is q decrease Of $1,1O4,346 from
the current fiscal yean
Schools Suffer MOsA
The heaviest cut IL made IN tho
estimates for the public school sys.
tenn. which are slashed $1ye44.4s3
below the allowance made BIZ the
Budget Bureau,
The appropriation TOP street ana
road Improvement and repair q -.
duced from the figure Of $2,174y08D,
considered by the Budget Bureau %
necessary, to $1,S76, $40. This is q
cut Of $297,71O and IL q reduction
OF 81, $50 below the appropriations
for 1924.
The third heaviest cut 70 made
I'm the item for collection and dis
posal OF refuse. The amount allowed
by the Budget Bureau was $l:46O,-
200. The COMMITTEES Topped off
sol. OO0.
The. sewer alIOwance was cut BY
$4,000. Heavy reductions were
ordered In the appropriations for the
electrical department. the police AMI
firemen's relief fund, the police and
fire departments, buildings and
grounds funds, courts and prisons,
and the water service.
Salaries Suffer, Too.
Salaries for District employees
were cut $64,624 below the Budget
Bureau estimates, but were raised
by $20,664 over the present year.
The total recommended for salaries
is $1,244,236.
OF the total appropriations car.
ried for the District, 81, 461, SOC. 20
is payable out OF District funds and
1857 500 out OF the Federal Treas
ury. A total Of 1884, iS pay.
able wholly from the revenues 81
the District Of Columbia, without
being matched on the 6O-40 basis by
the Federal Government, and 81.
162, $50 is payable wholly from
water service revenues.
These appropriations are exelg-
sive OF the permanent annual and
the indefinite appropriations which
occur automatically each. year with
out action of Congress, the report
on the Dill states.
The enactment Of pending bills
fixing the salaries of officers and
members OF the police and fire de
partments and Of teachers and
officers Of the Board Of Educat ion
win necessitate additional aprro-
priatiOns Of approximately 81 SEQ
600, exclusive Of the additional ap.
preparation that the one-day- rest.
in-seven provision in the police
and fire department salary bill
will make necessary, estimated TO
cost $4,000, the report states.
Congressman Charles r. Davis
Of Minnesota, who Submitted the
report for the committee and who
will have charge Of the bill on
the floor Of the House, made the
following statement regarding the
bill: @
Text of Statement.
"Of the total amount recomme s.
ed by the committee to be ar
priated, the Federal Governme al, =
share is $S,967 $500. A portion a
this will be refunded by reason &
| the fact that the Government sha
In collections from various sour
in the same proportion as It ca
tributes to the activities which n
duce revenue.
/ I'm the District of Columbia an.
preparation act for the fiscal year
1898 1t was provided that by July
/, 1927, the District should have
accumulated cash in an amount
sufficient to enable it thereafter
to defray its lawful share of dis
bursements and not be dependent
upon the Federal Treasury for ad
vances to be repaid from District
revenues subsequently received. To
aid IN bringing about this degree
of independence the law provided
that real estate and tangible pcr-
sonak property should be assessed
at its full value and at such rates
az would, I'm conjunction with other
revenues, meet current expenses
and contribute toward the reserve
to be available by July l., 1927. In
1929, prior to the law referred To,
| the assessed value Of real estate In
the District Of Columbia was $472s-
| S74,2O9.
"The first full value assessment
was completed on January /, 1924.
and established the fun value of
real estate In the District of Co.
Ilumbia at S767 ,056,555. The tax
rate. however, dropped from si.ss