Evening star., 1926-02-18

total OF S423 ,677 900, or Wn1cn 81,
100000 is for the District Govern
ment, passed the Senate late yester
day. Having already been approved
| by the House, the measure goes tC
| conference.
The Senate increased the bill by
nearly $45 100000. Among the items
| added were $2,168,000 for the sesqui
| centennial celebration in Philadelphia
| this year and $4,000 for American
| participation in the preliminary arms
conference at Geneva.
The Senate did not eliminate any
| of the local items, but, on motion OF
Senator Borah. Republican, of Idaho
| adued $2.125 Tor the maintenance OF
| the children's room in the Mount
Pleasant Branch Library.
Can Be Opened Now.
Senator Borah explained that the
Mount Pleasant building is completed
but that no fund is available TO open
the children S room until July l. The
amendment, he said, would make II
possible for tie room to be opened
from now until July.
The District POI Ilon of the bill Is
made up of about 100000 for stree.
paving and .epair, approxim atel!
100000 additional for school building
projects already Stated, 81, IL
-raffic control and administration
about 100000 for the Sewer Depart.
ment. $3.50, 900 for the support Oh il.
Iigent insane at ST. Elizabeth's Hos
pital and a number of smaller item
for various District institutions and
agencies.
Senator Phipps of Colorado eX
| planned to the Senate that the large
! amount for street paving and repai
| is in reality a part of the paving pro
gram for the fiscal year 1927, but was
placed in the deficiency bill rather
than in the District appropriation
bill 80 that it would be available fol
expenditure early in the Spring.
| Since the Senate did not alter the
| street paving program from the man
| ner in which it passed the House. thi.
portion of the bill is not subject t.
change in conference.
Street Widening Projects.
I In addition to the many paving
J items in the bill. the following stree
| widening projects were approved by
/ The Senate:
Connecticut avenue to be widened t
| 80 feet between X and NJ streets ant
to IS feet from NJ to 18th streets.
| For widening to 20 feet and re
paving Eleventh street from Penn
| sylvania to New York avenues, $93,
600. An appropriation of $22 .00t
| made by Congress in the current Dis
trict appropriation act for the resur
| facing of Eleventh street between T
and G. streets is made available to b,
| used in connection with this widen
ing project.
Other paving items are:
Northwest - Columbia road, Six
teenth to Eighteenth street.
| Observation-Disclosures avenue
Fourteenth to Sixteenth street, SOS
| 900.
! acknowledgements avenue. Thorn
| as Circle to Iowa Circle, $4,000.
| Northwest - Vermont avenue, F
street to T street, $13.500.
| Northwest--T street. Ninth stree
to Fourteenth street. $4,000.
| Northeast and Southeast.
| Northeast-West Virginia avenue
| Florida avenue to Penn street, $50, 700
Southeast - Kentucky avenue,
| street to Admiral Barney Circle, 50,
| 400.
Southeast-Kentucky avenue, Fiji
| teenth street to South Carolina ave
nue., $4,000.
| Southeast7C street, Twelfth stree
| TO Fifteenth street. $4,000.
| Northwest - Kansas avenue, Sher
man Circle to Emerson street, $4,000
| Observation-Disclosures street, New
Hampshire avenue to Kansas avenue
$22 900.
Northwest-South and east side O.
| Sherman Circle. Kansas avenue t
| Crittenden street, and Illinois avenue
| Buchanan street to Sherman Circle
$12 900.
Northwest-scott Circle, $4,000.
Other Streets Named.
! Observation-Disclosures Street. Sew
enth to Eighth; Center street, Me
riidian place to Ogden street; Decatur
street, Kansas avenue to Fifth; Eight
street, Decatur to Emerson street; 7
| street, Lincoln road to Second stree
| northeast.
| Northeast-Neal street, West Vir
ginia avenue, Trinidad avenue, $40. 200
| Northeast-Oates street, Montellt
avenue to Trinidad avenue, $4,000.
| Northeast-Trinidad avenue. Nea
street to Queen street, $4,000.
| For grading. including necessar!
culverts, drains and retaining walls
the following:
Northwest-Albema street, Muir
| dock Mill road to Wisconsin avenue
$6,500.
| Observation-Disclosures avenue, Con
ruit road to Weaver place, $13,600.
Northwest-Garfield street, Tunlav
road to Forty-fourth street, $500.
Northwest = Twenty ninth, street
Woodley road to Calvert street, SIS,
900.
Northeast-Dix street, Forty.fourtl
street to Forty ninth street, $4,000.
| Southeast - Firth Sterling avenue
Howard road to Stevens road, 100.
The school program items include
For furnishing and equipment, includ
ing repairs. Western High School
$4,000; for the athletic field Of West
ern High School there is reappro
priated the item of $125, 900 previous
~ authorized. but not expended: add
tional amount for wing to the Mac
farland Junior. High. $1,000; add
tional sum for school at Fifth ane
Buchanan streets, $25 500: additiona
sum for school at Fifth and Sheri
dan streets. $27.500, and additiona
sum for Brightwood Park School
$30.0
When the deficiency bill was frs
taken up yesterday afternoon ther,
was. a brief political debate as t,