Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-06

control No question is raised to that
I am only discussing the very unusual
duty that is imposed upon the bureau
Of looking over the affairs of munic-
ipality, a growing municipality, and
making estimates for it's needs.
thing that does not happen in any
other municipality Of the country"
Supporting Mr.. Moore's argument,
Representative Garner told the House:
II think the gentleman from Virginia
is correct about the philosophy of the
budget. The budget was intended to
take care especially OF expenditures
out of the Treasury Of the United
States. The Commissioners under the
present arrangements make their es-
Inmates to the budget and the budget
| then transmits their estimates OF Dis
trict expenditures to the Congress.
II seems to me, IL the lump-sum ap-
preparation theory is adopted, then 1t
| would be nothing but fair that the Dis
| trict Commissioners, representing the
people of the District, should submit
| their estimates direct to the Con-
press: or, rather that the budget, un-
der the present law, ought to send
| the estimates of the District Commits
sioners to the Congress and let the
Congress pass on the advisaoillty Oh
adopting them
Pledge OF Co-Operatfon.
Promise of cooperation in putting
| this nrogram through was then given
from a very powerful source when
Chairman Madden of the appropria-
| lions committee said:
IT would not object to that, put 1
| would object to the acceptance OF the
budget estimates either from the
| budget or from the Commissioners
without any right to wise them and
! reduce them, because, after all, some
body somewhere must be in authority
| to protect the rights of the man "no
has nothing to say about the estl-
| mates"
Representative Garner said he
| agreed with Mr.. Madden absolutely.
| Continuing, Representative Moore ex-
| planned that eff the District were
| taken out of the budget system the
estimates would be made by the Com
| missioners, the appointees of the
President Those estimates would, of
course, be sent to Congress and then
| the appropriate committees in Con-
gress would deal with them. That
would serve, 1t seems to me, to amply
safeguard the people of the District.
and, as I have Just said. there would
be no need to safeguard the Federal
Government, because the new policy
| is to limit the contribution of the
Federal Government to lump sum.
Wants Joint Committee.
In advocating a joint committee to
pass on District legislation and SUBJ
hitting a statement of the necessary
| improvements for the District, Rep
| resentative Moore said:
Nothing I said presupposes that
| there should or could be any limit to
| the legislative power of Congress
over the District, although I concur
| in the opinion recently expressed on
the floor of the House by some of the
members of the committee on the Dis
| trict of Columbia and by others that
Congress might wisely rid itself of
| much Of the minor. District Iegisla-
ton which it now considers by leav-
| ing to the Commissioners more fully
than now the disposition of many
questions of a routine and compare
| lively trifiing character. In that con-
| nection 1t was urged, as I formally
proposed some time ago, that District
business should be tntrusted to a joint
committee of the two houses rather
than as at present to two large in
dependent committees.
This plan would enable q Single
| committee to frame and report legis-
lation with view of determining to
| what extent the Commissioners
should be enabled to handle matters
that might properly be made the sub
ject of ordinances instead of being
made the subject of congressional
| enactments. 1t. is my own view that
| this committee might also very prop
erly be given authority to report Dis
trict appropriation bills by trans
! ferrinE to It the authority now ex-