Evening star., 1927-12-08
D. c. DEFICIENCY
BILL IS APPROVED
House Authorizes All Items
in First Measure Affect
ing Capital.

The House today approved in the
committee Of the whole all items in
the first deficiency hill FOR the Dis
trct of columbia municipal admins
tration. totalin- $7l3.a34.3 81. and many
other important items "f expenditure
for the National Capital. including
$500, 900 for acquisition of land Cor
the national aThoretum. The District
items inclnde.
For the National Botanic Garden.
s6on .0o0 for relocation and enlarge
mert.
For tho Government Printing
Office 50 GOO 10 pay messengers on
the Congressional Record.
For the Library of Congress, $S.0oo.
for the copyright office. 81 600 for sun
day opening. and So 900 for printing
and binding and $l5.ooo for an index
to state legislation.
500. 900 for Executive Office.
The executive office was allowed the
500 nn0 requested for prosecuting suits
in the oil land cases. The item of
SIS 900 was allowed as "A continuing
appropriate ton for White House re-
pairs.
Civil Service Commission was al
lowed s103 900 for salaries in the Dis
trict of Columbia. SS2. 500 for travel
ing expenses and 81 900 for contingent
and miscellaneous expenses.
The Employees Compensation Com
mission was allowed $34O,000 foI
salaries in the District. Sl0000 for
printing and binding and 100000 fo.'
payment of compensation.
parks of the National Capital was al
lowed Sl6.560 for additional salaries
in the District and $1i.960 for gen
eral expenses with the proviSo that
not more than $1,000 of this is avail
able for uniforms of employees.
The item of SS0.000 for safeguard
ing the dome of the rotunda of the
National History Building in the
Smithsonian group was approved.
Probe Expenses Allowed.
In the Weather Bureau appropria-
tion A limit of S3.540 was set for per-
sonal services in the District on the
item for collecting and disseminating
rine information.
Among the items for the Depart
ment of Agriculture limit of 81 ESQ
was set for employment of personal
services in the District on an in
vestiga ton of the Mexican fruit worm.
And an appropriation of $4,000 was
allowed for the District to prevent
spread of Japanese and Asiatic beetles.
A limit of 4.350 out of 0.00a
appropriation to regulate the impor.a-
tion of milk and cream in the United
States was set for salary expenditure
in Washington.
Under the item for aircraft in com
merce the Department of Commerce
is allowed not to exceed Sl65, 900 for
personal services in the District.
An appropria ton of 100000 was
approved for power plant equipment
for the Bureau of Standards
The Bureau of Standards is also
allowed an item not 20 exceed Sl1 ,040
for expenditures in the District on
the subject of sugar standardization.
National Training School.
For the National Training School
for Boys in Washington the. Depart
ment of Justice is allowed an appro-
priation of S1.S05.37.
For Marine Barracks at Quantico
Sl.650,000 was allowed with authorize.
ton to the Secretary of the Navy to
enter into contracts for construction
at a total not to exceed S.. .2O5 900.
For the Naval Observatory in the
District $500 is allowed for repairs
to heating tunnel.
Not to exceed $500, 900 may he ex-
pended for personal services in the
District by the Post Office Department
for repairs to mail bags and equip
ment