Evening star., 1924-01-03
BILL RAISES POLICE
SALARIES IN D. c.
Fire Department Personnel
Also Benefited in Meas
ure Before House.

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Fifteen Legislative measures affect
ing the District of Columbia were in
troduced in the House today by
Representative Stuart +. Reed of
West Virginia. chairman of the House
District committee
One of these bills proposes to fix
the salary Of officers and members of
the metropolitan police force and the
fire department of the District, as
follows:
Major and superintendent Of police,
5000; assistant superintendents.
$4,000 each; inspectors. s3,25o each !;
captains. s2.S0O each: lieutenants,
s2,500; sergeants, $4,000; privates of
class three. $4,000; privates of class
two. $1,000; privates of class one,
s1.s00: driver-privates, $500.
The bill provides that mounted
members of the police force who fur
nish and maintain their own horses
shall receive extra compensation of
$40 a year. while members of the
force mounted on motor vehicles
shall receive $3.50 extra per year;
those mounted on bicycles $40 per
year extra.
Extra Pay Measures.
Members of the force detailed to
detective headquarters shall each re-
ceive extra compensation of $3.50 a
year, while members of the force de-
tailed for special duty in the pre-
cincts in the prevention and detec
ton of crime shall receive $50 extra
per year: members detailed to the
motor cycle service shall receive $40
extra per year.
The annual basic salaries of officers
and members of the fire department
should be as follows:
Chief engineer, 5000; deputy chief
$3.50 each; battalion chief
engineers. s2.S00 each: fire marshal,
SS,OD0 deputy fire marshal, $4,000;
inspectors, $4,000; captains. $1,000;
$3.50; sergeants, S2100;
superintendents Of machinery. $4,000;
assistant Superintendents of ma
chinery. $1,000; pilots, $4,000; marine
$4,000: assistant marine
engineers $500: marine firemen,
ST 500; privates of class three, $4,000
each; privates of class two, $1,000
each, and privates of class one, 81, 500
each.
The salaries provided for in this
bill would be payable on and after
July l next.
18th Street Bill.
Another bill is the reintroduction
of the old Ball bill to vacate GER
tain streets and alleys within the area
known as the Walter Reed General Hos
pital and authorizing the extension
and widening of 14th street from
Montague street to it's southern
terminus south of Dahlia street.
Nicholson street from 18th to 18th
streets, Colorado avenue from Mon
tague street to 18th street, Concord
avenue from 10th street to its west
ern terminus west of Sth street, 18th
street from Nicholson street to Piney
Branch road, and Piney Branch road
from 18th street to Blair road.
Amending the law relating to taxa
tion in the District of Columbia is
proposed in another bill by Repre-
sentative Reed. This provides that
after July / next each national bank
as the trustee for it's stockholders
and all incorporated banks, including
savings banks and trust companies.
in the District. through their presi :
dents or cashiers. shall make A re-
port under oath to the board of per-
sonal tax appraisers before the 5th
day of August each year. giving the
amount of their gross earnings for
the preceding year ending June 80,
less the amount paid by them as in
terest to the depositors for the pre-
ceding year.
The bill also requires these bank
officials to pay to the collector of
taxes of the District on such gross
earnings 5 per cent year in lieu OF
the tax on gross earnings now paid
The bill carries a penalty of $500 for
each offense upon conviction in the
Police Court.
Heat for Houses.
The furnishing of heat in living
quarters in the District of Columbia
is required under another Reed bill
This provides that every owner, land
lord, lessor or sublessor or agent who
shall lease or suitcase any apart
ment, building or part of building
room or rooms. to another with an
agreement to heat the same and shall
neglect to keep the temperature at
not less than IS degrees between Z
am. and 10 pm, upon conviction shall
be fined not less than S25 nor more than
such neglect shall be deemed a separate
offsnse. Representative Reed also
reintroduced bill left over from
the previous Congress for the widen
ing of 4th street, south of Cedar
street northwest.
introduced today is the old bill
Moore of Virginia, providing for an
investigation and report upon the
condition of the Chain bridge across
the Potomac river and the prepara-
ton of plans for bridge to replace
1t should this be deemed necessary.
Civil War Forts Bill.
Provision for the necessary survey
and preparation Of a plan for pro-
posed parkway to connect the civil
war forts in the District is made in
another old bill reintroduced today by
Representative Reed.
TO prevent fraud respecting secur-
tiles offered for sale within the Dis
trict, and to provide a summary pro-
ceeding therefor. requiring the regis
tration of persons selling securities
in the District, is another measure
which Chairman Reed has reintro-
duced.
Regulation of the practice Of the
science Of chiropractic in the District
is proposed by another old bill which
Chairman Reed reintroduced today.
The District Commissioners are au-
thorized to close certain streets, roads
or highways in the District, rendered
useless or unnecessary by reason of
rhe opening, extension, widening or
of roads and highways
in accordance with the highway plan
under another bill which Representa-
tive Reed introduced.
Among these streets which would
la eIoead aro Rroad Rranch road he