Evening star., 1929-06-30
DISTRICT HEADS
SET SAB, 100000
FOR NEW BUDGET
Figure Is 100000 in Excess
OF Amount Set When They
Started Estimate.
AUDITOR PLANS TO CUT
SUM TO $48, ,000,0 900
Budget Bureau May Send Estimate
Back to Conform With
1880 Appropriation.

The District Commissioners worked
until late yesterday afternoon putting
the final touches on the city's budget
of expenditures for the fiscal year of
1881 Long after all the employees in
the District Building had gone home,
the city heads struggled with the figures
submitted to them by their various de-
partment heads, and finally arrived at
a budget of about $48, ,000 or
100000 in excess of the figure they
had set for themselves as they started
on the job several weeks ago The work
Is not yet, technically speaking, COM
plete. District Auditor Daniel j..
Donovan will go over all the figures
again tomorrow morning, and a slight
amount of further pruning may be done
in an effort to get the figures below
the $4,000, 900 limit. Then they will
be sent over to the Budget Bureau for
approval.
May he Returned for Cut.
If the recent edict of the latter body
to the effect that the 1881 budget must
be held down to the 1880 appropriations
is to be interpreted strictly, then the
Budget Bureau will probably send them
back with orders to cut the budget
further down to $45,000.000. This is
the appropriation for 1880, consisting
of $41 100000 in the regular bill,
$4,000, 900 appropriated by the special
session of Congress for purchase of land
for a municipal center, and a con-
templated supplemental appropriation
of $5o0,0 for purchase Of two modern
trash incinerators.
Soon after the beginning of the final
budget meeting, members of the Pub
lie Utilities Commission appeared be-
fore the Commissioners and urged the
inclusion in the commissions estimate
Of an additional item of $4,000 to in
crease its personnel. The commission,
1t Is understood, is desirous of employ
ing a number of additional accountants
and technical experts to keep a close
check on the financial condition If the
public utilities corporations, which is
physically impossible, it was said, with
the present limited staff.
The commissions estimates for 1891
were reviewed by the Commissioners
several weeks ago, but the need OF the
increased, force caused the members to
ask for q special hearing to consider
the request for an additional $4,000.
The fun personnel of the commission
attended the hearing. with Col. William
of q Commissioner and a member Of
the commission.
No Startling Slashes.
Although the makeup of the budget
as sent to the bureau is more or less
learned that no startling slashes were
made anywhere along the line. 1t is
reported that the heaviest sufferers are
the Public Library and the National
Capital Park and Planning Commis-
sion, each of which agencies asked for
appropriations far in excess Of the
1880 figures. It was learned that the
figures we're cut down with something
approaching proportion All along the
lands request for $150,000 for trafac-
light purchases was cut to less than
half, It was learned on good authority.
The estimates submitted. to the Com
misSioners by the department heads
totaled in round figures, $4,000, 900,
which means that a slash of 100000
has been the result of the Commis-
sionerS' laborS thus far.
Heads Worked Overtime.
The city heads worked overtime in
order TO complete consideration of the
budget before the vacation Of Commis-
sioner Sidney F. Taliaferro, who leaves
on a motor trip through Virginia to-
morrow. He will be gone about three
weeks, spending the latter part Of his
vacation at New Jersey ocean resort.
L. Dougherty, president of the board,
will take his vacation. Engineer Com
missioner William B. Ladue will prob
ably not get his vacation until the late
Fall. There is busy Summer ahead
of the Public Utilities Commission, of
which he is member. Daniel E.
Garges, secretary of the board, is al
ready on leave. The Commissioners
sat up until nearly midnight Friday
night considering estimates of the water
department and traffic directors ONCE.
Yesterday, they also took time at the
end of the session to appoint commit
tee charged with the duty Of purchas-
ing land in the area between Pennsyl-
vania avenue, Judiciary Square, Third
and Sixth streets, for the new munich
pal center. Maj. Layson E. Atkins, As
siStant Engineer Commissioner, was
made chairman Of the committee and
Tax Assessor William P. Richards and
Corporation Counsel William w. Bride
were named as the other members.
The Commissioners also nominated
eight representatives of the District to
the annual conference on city taxation
to be held at Upper Saranac, N. Y, in
September. The representatives will go
at their own expense. They are: DR..
Thomas w. Page, Frank Coleman, Will
liam P. Richards, Edward F. Colladay,
Robert j. Cottrell, Robert v. Fleming,
Joshua Evans jr, and William L. Beale.