Evening star., 1925-02-23
SECOND DEFICIENCY
BILL IS REPORTED;
S3,5)9,311 FOR D. c.
Measure Providing Total of
$54,426,562 o. KID by
House Committee.

Carrying a total of s54,426,562. 90
the second deficiency appropriation
bill for the fiscal year of 1925 wa,
reported to the House today. Thi:
includes S3,5os,311.4s for distinct,
District of Columbia items, which |,
an increase of ss78,0oO over tn.
budget estimates. This measure alsc
contains many other large appropria
tions for Federal activities, which
VIII be expended in the National Cap
ital. =
The District items in .de s73.62l.5:
for salaries principally due to re.
ALLEGATION under the classification act
For general expenses the bill in.
cludes s4,430 for the building inspec-
ton department and $4,000 for plumb.
Ing inspection division For the
coroner's office, general expenses
amounting to s2S8 are included, and
FOR the employees compensation fund
$4,000.
Funds for Library.
For the free public library the fol-
lowing items are carried: Salaries
$4,000. which is s1.622 less than the
budget recommendation; for books
periodicals, etc, $4,000; contingent
expenses. $1,000; equipment for branch
Libraries, s1,75o; repairs to library
buildings. $500,
Contingents and miscellaneous ex-
penses include $1,000 for judicial ex-
penses and sl,500 for refund of
erroneous collections
Other items include sewers, assess
nent and permit. s125, 600: street
improvements, $4,000; collection of
refuse. $4,000.
For the public schools the follow
ing items are provided: Instruction
or deaf and dumb. s4,250; furniture
ana equipment, $500; purchase of
paper towels, $500, which is a reduc-
tion OF 5000 from the budget recon-
purchase of land. $4,000:
of addition to western
High School. s32. for school build
ings and grounds to come out of the
surplus, s2,e31,5oO.
$4,000 for Jail Work,
For the various court activities the
specific items are: Juvenile Court,
S5-77, due since 1924; Police Court
compensation Of jurors, $4,000: mis-
cellaneous expenses. $500, and furni-
ture. $500. For Supreme Court, wit
ness fees, $4,000. and fees of jurors.
$4,000: support of convicts, $4,000:
writs Of lunacy, $3.50; jail construc-
tion work. $4,000
Items for medical charities-ChiI-
dren's Hospital, $4,000; Central Dis
pensary and Emergency Hospital,
s 1000: Eastern Dispensary and Casu
atty Hospital. $4,000; for the Board of
Children's Guardian. s11,5o0; National
School for Girls. $4,000
which is an increase of $4,000 above
the budget recommendations. and for
st. Elizabeth's Hospital, s254.o4146.
$2,631.5O0 Tor schools.
The bill carries an item of $3.50
for removal of snow and ice and
$4,000 for Improvement of the bath
ing beaches and for the Rock Creek
and Potomac Parkway Commission to
its work, 100000. This
would finish this job of acquiring
ands for connecting parkway be-
tween Potomac Park and Geological
Park and Rock Creek Park.
For payments of judgments the
bill carries s16,6s3.07, and for pay
nent of audited claims for the fiscal
year of 1922 and prior years, ssos.16.
For extension of the distribution
system of the Water Department
$4,000 is proposed.
The largest portion recommended
for the District of Columbia is COM
posed Of items for schools, school
buildings and grounds aggregating
S2.631.500 and authorized to be paid
rom surplus revenue funds created
by the act approved February 2. 1925.
BY this act the amount credited to the
District and the accounting between
The District and the United States
we're placed In a special fund to be
available for appropriation for
schools, parks and Fairgrounds. The
school projects recommended in the
bill reported today are appropriated
rom the special fund and were urged
lpon the House appropriations COM
nittee as being the most urgent and
important of the school projects now
school building bill. or the other
TENS chargeable to District revenues
he most important items are for the
Mount Pleasant library, now nearing
operating expenses total
ing SCI 1000; extension of the water
and sewer systems to accommodate
current building operations, $175, 900;
expenses of snow removal, S35, 900;
are of insane of the District at st.
slizabeth's Hospital, s254, 4,041.06, and
he item of 100000 for Rock Creek
md Potomac Parkway.
100000 More Needed.
This latter item is included in this
bill due to uncertainty existing at
the time of the submission OF the
regular estimates as to whether the
in charge of this work
would not be superseded in the per-
'ormance Of its duty by the National
Capital Park Commission. The At
torney General has ruled that the
Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway
Commission should continue in its
existence until the acquisition of the
land is completed. This is the final
on the existing author
cation of $500. 900. 1t is estimated
that to complete the acquisition of all
lands to be taken will require $780,
900, but this sum cannot be recon-
mended by the appropriations COM
mittee until the limit of cost is in
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