Evening star., 1925-02-20
$6,462,494 ASKED
FOR D. c. BY BUDGET
Schools to Get S2,698,1M
of TotaI-Many Other
Projects Share Fund.

, The extraordinary total of $6,4s2,.
N4s3 to be expended in the National
Capital is asked by the Budget Bu-
reau to be included in the second de-
fciency bill, which Is expected to be
reported to the House Monday and
taken up Tuesday.
OF this amount, s3.5l1,s53.4 is in
distinctly District items, which will
be paid for out of District taxes under
the lump-sum fiscal policy approved
for the present and for the next fiscal
YEARS. The largest item in this Dis
trict budget is $2,SS1.50o for the pub
lie schools, which will come out or
the S4.50o,000 surplus to the credit of
the District in the United States
Treasury. Other items amounting to
ss6,670 are for District schools, maxi
ing a total school budget proposed in
the second deficiency bill of S2,6ss, 10.
fOther items distributed among the
various executive departments ana
independent establishments which are
10 be paid for out of Federal FUNDS,
but which are for activities OF the
Federal Government in the District
total $3.50. o.sn.s4
Items in .hool Fund.
special school fund which comes out
of the s4,5oo,Oo surplus, are salaries,
si5,4S0: deaf and dumb. $3.50; west
ern High School equipment, $500;
Western High School construction
$3.50: land for Langley School
$4,000; contingent expenses, $4,000.
sOther District items: For assistant
inspectors in the building inspection
division, s4,430; plumbing inspection
division. $4,000; assessment and per-
nit work for the sewer division. Sl25.-
600, and for the street ceanlns
division, $4,000.
Items for the Public Library in
ctude: Salaries, sS,s23; books, $4,000;
Ben-Deanwood branch, Sl,f5o; repairs,
$4,000.
Items for the courts include $4,000
for fees for jurors, 100000 for trans
portation of convicts, $4,000 for the
death house. Other items for the
National Training School for Girls.
$4,000: for st. E'izsbeth's Hospital
for 1924, $ls,041.4C, and for 1925,
sasS.Ooo. For the Rock Creek and Po-
tomac Parkway Commission 100000
Isl asked and for the Water Depart
ment, $4,000.
Other Deficiency Items.
tOther important deficiency items
not included in the District budget
but which are for activities in wash
inston, include memorial to women or
the World War, s150,000; Government
Printing Office. 5000; Capitol power
plant, SSl2,36l: Senate Office Building
ssl.36s: White House. extraordinary
repairs and furnishing, $4,000, ana
for improvements and maintenance,
sl2,640: salaries for the general ac-
counting office, S75; elevators, State,
War and Navy Building, $4,000:
greenhouse, Arlington Experimental
Gardens, $4,000: additional land for
the experime entail farm at Beltsvillc,
$4,000: radio investigation, s125,000:
Pension ONCE, salaries. $4,000; Post
ONCE Department, $500; Bureau of
Mines, for stallation of an electric
furnace, $4,000; for the National
Training School for Boys. $4,000; for
repairs to the elevator in Washington
Monument, $4,000.
Items for the Bureau OF Engraving
and Print ting total $1.s47,3 ,375.43 and
include purchases OF saper, s1S6,794-34
ahd s202,0f2.50: two salary items OF
si94.25o and s57S4Ss:s for plate print
ers. two items Of $21S,92l and $175,20O;
for materials, two items of $7o,25s
and s92,170, and for machinery.
s233.3oo.