Evening star., 1925-02-21
CONFEREES KILL
BATHING BEACHES
Will Recommend Temporary
Facilities, However, Pend
ing Other Arrangements.

Items in the District appropriation
bill for the bathing beaches in the
Tidal Basin are eliminated in an
agreement reached by the Senate and
House conferees today on that bill.
The conferees will recommend that
provision be made in a deficiency bill
to enable Col. c. o. Sheriff., the officer
in charge of public buildings and
grounds, to arrange for temporary
bathing facilities until permanent
beaches can be located for both white
and colored. It is understood that the
bath houses at the Tidal Basin will
be removed.
Three items in the bill remain in
disagreement: The lump-sum con-
tribution of the Federal Government
to the upkeep of the District, which
the House fixed at s9,000,000 and the
Senate at s11,000,000.
Section of the House bill. which
was stricken out by the Senate. This
section would compel the budget
estimates for the fiscal year 1927 to
be submitted on the same basis Of
contribution by the Federal Govern
| ment as the present District bill pro-
vides.
The House item adding two Police
Court judges, which the Senate struck
out.
Senators Oppose Provision.
The Senate conferees believe that
it is improper for this Congress to
seek to bind the Budget Bureau and
the next Congress as proposed in
section Z.
So far as the item for the two ad-
ditional Police Court judges is con-
cerned. it was pointed out by Sena-
tor Phipps, chairman of the confer
ence committee, that the traffic bill
providing for two additional Police
Court judges, which has passed the
Senate, is to come up for considera-
ton in the House Monday. If that
bill is passed, the question of addi-
tional Police Court judges will be
settled.
The conference report will be sub
mitted first to the House, where
separate vote will be taken on the
Federal contribution items.
Most of the 1851, 900 increases pro-
vided in the bill as it passed the Sem
ate were agreed to in conference.
Under the terms of the conference
report a Senate amendment providing
s475. 900 instead of s175,000 for the
construction of the Stuart Junior
High School is approved. Another
Senate amendment agreed to in
creased the item for repair Of streets
by 100000. Fifty thousand dollars
for continuing the construction of the
upper Potomac main interceptor, an
other Senate amendment, was agreed to.
Paving Work Approved.
Other increases recommended by the
Senate and agreed to by the conferees
were as follows:
Maintenance and repairs to market,
81, ,00O municipal architects office,
$2,400; employment service, $50;
street improvements as follows: Paw
ing Ordway street, Thirty-fifth to
Wisconsin avenue, $4,000; paving
Thirty fifth street, Quebec to Rod
man. $4,000.
Paving. Macomb street. Wisconsin
to Idaho avenues, $4,000; collection
and disposal of refuse, $4,000; personal
services in public schools, 5000; de-
work permits, S11.600; Community
Center department, $4,000; contingent
expenses for the schools, $4,000; Fire
Department, personal services, $50;
Court of Appeals, personal services,
$3.50; Improvement and care of public
grounds, $4,000; water department,
$7,710.
The conferees also agreed to the
following decreases recommended by
the Senate: Superintendent of bath
ing beaches, S720; support of prison.
ers at Jail, $3.50.