Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31
Request for Approval at
Present Special Session
to Be Disapproved.
APPROPRIATIONS ASKED
TOTAL s3,500,O00
$500,000 Asked for Incinerators
and Remainder for Mu-
nicipal Project.

The District Commissioners early this
week sent to the Budget Bureau a re-
quest for approval of appropriations
amounting to $3,50O000 at the present
special session of Congress, it was
learned today. While the action of the
Budget Bureau has not yet been re-
ported officially, it was learned on good
authority that the request will be
denied.
OF the money sought $4,000 900 was
for purchase OF site for the new mu-
nicipal center and $500,00o for pur-
chase of two sites and the start of con-
struction on high temperature inciner-
ators for combustible refuse to take the
place of the present trash plant, which
is reported in poor mechanical condi-
ton.
The money for both projects is al
ready in the Treasury to the credit of
the District of Columbia as part of the
Districts cash surplus, but it may not
be used except by authority of act OF
Congress. 1t is understood that the
Budget Bureaus extended denial of the
request will be based on two grounds.
First, that the projects are not "emer-
gency" measures, and, second, that the
President desires the special session to
deal mainly with tariff revision and
farm relief.
Made at Simmona' Suggestion.
The request for the money for the
municipal center site e'as made at the
suggestion of Representative Simmons
of Nebraska, Chairman of the District
subcommittee of the House committee
on appropriations. Mr.. Simmons has
been quoted recently as saying that an
early start should be made in purchas-
ing the land SO that advantage could be
taken of lower prices than are expected
to prevail by the time the first urgent
deficiency can be passed at the next
session of Congress. At the District
Building it was learned that Mr.. SIM
mons will not give up the prospect Of
securing the municipal center appro-
priation at the special session and that
he will confer with Budget Bureau OFF,
cials on the subject shortly.
Although the Budget Bureau does
not incline to the view that either mea-
sure could be clasSed as an emergency.
Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty
said today that the District government
was confronted with serious situation
with respect to finding new home for
the Juvenile Court by July /.
Plaza Work Starts at Once.
The architect of the Capitol has an
nounced that work on the new Capitol
plaza will start at once, necessitating
the raZing of the temporary Govern
ment building at New Jersey avenue
and G streets, where the Juvenile Court
is at present housed.
I'VE have nowhere to put this court"
Mr.. Dougherty said. 'I had been hop
ing that if we could buy building on
the new municipal center site, we could
put the Juvenile Court there until we
had built the new courts building.
which will be the first section of the
new municipal center to be constructed.
AS the matter now stands, I have no
idea where the court can go. The Gem
misSioners foresaw this situation when
we were before the Budget Bureau last
year and asked them for an appropri-
alton for renting temporary home for
this court At that time, however, the
plaza bill had not yet been passed, and
the bureau disallowed the item
'As for the trash plant, I do not
think that there will be any serious
difficulty in keeping it going until we
get our appropriations at the next reg
ular session. It is subject to frequent
breakdownS, but we can no doubt get
1t patched up and go along with it as
long as necessary"