Evening star., 1926-02-01
S1,734,678 is ASKED
FOR DISTRICT WORK
IN DEFICIENCY BILL
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teenth street to Eighteenth street,
$4,000; Massachusetts, avenue, Four
teenth street to Sixteenth street $780,
600, instead of $4,000, for like i'm
proyement from Fourteenth street to
Eighteenth street; Vermont avenue.
Thomas Circle to Iowa Circle. S2S.-
900; Vermont avenue, r street to I
street, S13500; T street, Ninth street
to Fourteenth street, $4,000.
Northeast-West Virginia avenue,
Florida avenue to Penn street, w.
700.
outheast-Kentucky avenue. H
street to Admiral Barney Circle.
s9,40O: Kentucky avenue. Fifteenth
street to South Carolina avenue, s34.-
200. and c street. Twelfth street to
Fifteenth street. s35, 200.
Observation-Disclosures avenue, Sheri-
dan Circle to Farragut street. $4,000;
Buchanan street, New Hampshire
avenue to Kansas avenue, $4,000;
south and east side Of Sherman Cir
Gle, Kansas avenue to Crittenden
street, and Illinois avenue, Buchanan
street to Sherman Circle, 1000, and
Scott Circle. $4,000.
Building Operations.
For assessment and permit work in
connection with building operations
in the residential districts the sum OF
1925 900 is recommended for sewer
extensions and 1880 for extension
of water mains; very large part OF
ca ch sum will come back in the form
of assessments levied against the
properties affected. A fund of S2o,0OO
is granted for main and pipe sewers
to provide for the renewal OF the
sewer in + street from Fifth TO Thir-
for the widening of f street over this
extent but it Is deemed advisable to
renew the sewer. which has been in
for more than so years, before the
widening and repaving takes place
at an estimated cost of $4,000.
For the schools an item Of $4,000 Is
included for completion of equipment
for the enlargement of the Western
High School, S25,500 for continuing
construction on the eight-room build
ing at Fifth and Buchanan streets,
S27, 500 for the eight-room eXtenSible
building at Fifth and Sheridan
streets. 100000 for the eight-room
building at Brightwood Park, and
S55 900 for the wing to the Macfar-
land Junior High.
A further amount of $260,U0O is in
cluded for care of the insane to en-
able payments to be made TO ST.
Flizabeth's Hospital to the end of the
current fiscal year.
A new provision is inserted in the
bill allowing the National Capital
Parks Commission to increase its ex-
penditures for personal services from
So, 200 to 1000 for 1926.
The total of the bill, while large,
is composed in the main of four items
which represent unusual situations
for an urgent deficiency bill and are
the exception rather than the rule
for this bill. These four items com
prise $3.50, 100000 of the 1881, 900, 900
in the bill. namely, refund of internal
revenue taxes. 149,250, 900; increa ses
under the postal pay act. $97 ,265, ,821.84
Federal road aid and forest roads and
trails, $26,675,000; and for the Vet
erans' Bureau for the adjusted serv-
ice certificate fund and hospital
construction, $7S,0OO,000.
These activities will be referred to
In the detailed explanation of the
more important items in the bill
which follows:
Items Explained.
The sum of $1.47O.S33.33 is recon-
mended to cover the cost of the
increase in compensation of Senator'S
and Representative from the date the
increase took effect, March 4, 1925, to
the end of the fiscal year, June 80.
1926. Present appropriations, based
on the old salary rate, have been
available by act of Congress to pay
thA alsxiaa- a. the .peW rata from the