Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-21

missioners failed to 10.
Supplementary List Prepared.
1.-THE subcommittee, at the hearings
did not give any justification for the
! lack Of planning in this respect. Hav-
! ing in mind the large idle cash sur.
plus to the credit of the District OF
Columbia, and believing that the tax
payers of the District were entitled al
least to the expenditure of a portion
of this fund upon necessary projects
from which they would derive de-
served civic benefit, the committee
after indicating the nature of i'm
I provements which it would consider
obtained from the District officials an
| estimate of primary items of importance
| totaling $4,979,7 700, paralleled by Sec
ondary group amounting to 1880 900
making total of $1,000, TOO The COM
mittee then cooperated with the Bureau
of the Budget, and as a sequence To
such action there was submitted to
Congress a supplementary list of esti-
mates covering important public i'm
provements amounting to 81 ,674, 900.
These supplementary estimates COW
cred amounts for the library service,
concentration of the highways depart
ment shops, repairs to AnacoStia Bridge
| school sites and buildings Gallinger
Hospital nurses home, public parks,
and building at the National Zoologi-
cal Park. The committee has recon-
mended all of these items which makes
the total of the bill $575 442 over the
current appropriations. Two additional
projects, municipal center ESTIMATED
at $2,400,000) and new police court
building estimated at 100000, were
also given serious consideration Action
thereon has not been taken at this time
due to lack of legislation for the civic
center, and the opinion that a project
OF the magnitude of the police court
building quite naturally is linked to the
plans for new civic center. Proposed
legislation, recently introduced in the
House of Representatives, is pending at
the present time, and it is anticipated
and hoped that action will be taken
during this Congress, both of authorize
ton and appropriation for this project"
.. Maintenance Allowance o. KID.
The committee continues the present
allowances to certain District employees
for quarters. maintenance, etc, pending
alreview by the Personnel Classification
Board the same as the amendment in
the Interior Department bill regarding
the allowance for DR.. William A. White,
superintendent of st. Elizabeth's Hospi-
tai. Chairman Simmons In explanation
of this said:
AT the various institutions Of the
District of Columbia for MANY years
IN the past it has been the practice
and custom to allow quarters. main
tenance, ETC., for employees who are
required to live at the institutions.
The necessity Of large number of per-
sons to live at the institutions is very
obvious. The classification act of 1923
provides that in fixing salaries these
maintenance allowances shall be taken
into consideration. The rates of allow
ances and values in effect have been
crltlclzed by the Comptroller General
as pelng TOO low in many cases. In
order that these rates may be reviewed
by the Personnel Classification Board
the central agency for allocating posi-
lions. and determination by them of the
adjusted scale of allowances. the COM
mlttee recommends a paragraph under
the Board of Public Welfare continuing
Inc present scale of allowances in eff
Iect pending a review and determine
tlon OF the rates by the board. The
institutions involved include the work.
mouse, reformatory, jail, hospitals.
homes, and the various correctional in
stlIutlons, and proper and detailed
study OF the entire field viii enable the
Doaro 70 evaluate the allowances in re-
iation TO the entire salary question"
Care Of District Building.
"In the estimates for the care of
the District Building, which item pro-
vldes for the necessary expenses of
maintenance and operation, including
repairs, fuel. light, and power, the re-
port says there was contemplated the
elimination OF one employee at $l.428.
The report continues: This employee
was one OF five engineers, and it APP
peared his services were quite necessary.
The committee, therefore, increased the
appropriation to the extent necessary to
include this position.
Under the license bureau, the COM
mittee has inserted the following
proViso:
Provided, That hereafter the SUPER
intendent of licenses of the District OF
Columbia shall not issue a registra-
ton certificate or Identification tags for
any motor vehicle upon which any per-
Sonal taxes are due and unpaid to the
| said District
I'm testimony submitted to the COM
mittee it was started that a practice
|
the inhabitants give fictitious street
address when applying for their regis
tration certificate or identification tags
for their automobiles, and this practice
naturally obyiateS the collection later OF
! personal taxes upon the vehicle. BY
the adoption Of the above proviso, this
Subterfuge will be stopped and it has
been estimated that approximately $70,-
600 additional in perSonal-property
taxes will come into the District
/ treasury.
THE committee has increased the
Budget estimate for the Office of the
corporation counsel by adding 81 500 tc
cover the salary of a messenger. Al
ployee In this Office, and 1t was stated
that such services are much needed
Highways Department.
Including a supplemental estimate
of sos, 000 the amount recommended
for the highways department for thu
next fiscal year is $420, 500, which is thu
Budget estimate, and an increase ovel
the current year of 1922 $40. The pur
pose of the supplemental estimate o
$205, 900 is to provide for the remova
Of the highways department shops, etc
to the Bryant Street pumping station
and in this connection. to make GER
tain other desirable economical ar
rangements for servicing. repairing, ant
housing municipal automobiles. Fo
many years the store yards and shop
of the highways department have beer
located on United States territory in tn
, center parking of Canal Street, between
, Second Street west and South Capito
" - Il