Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-28
VACATION BECKONS
AS BUDGET WORK
NEARS COMPLETION
Commissioner TaIiaferro to
Be First to Leave City,
Then Dougherty.
FORMER OFF MONDAY
FOR JERSEY RESORT
Estimates Get Finishing Touches,
With Some Notifications, for
Early Submission.

With the Districts tentative budg-
etary estimates for the 1881 fiscal year
nearly completed, the Commissioners
today began making preparations for a
vacation. Sidney F. Taliaferro will be
the first to go. He plans to leave Mon
day for two-week rest at New Jer-
Sey resort. Proctor L. Dougherty will go
away upon his return, but Col. William
B. Ladue, who also is a member of the
Public Utilities Commission, probably
will be kept in Washington most of the
Summer, in view of the forthcoming
hearings before the commission on the
Capital Traction Co.'S application for
higher fare, which start July 49,
The Commissioners spent considerable
time today putting the finishing
touches on the estimates, which are due
at the Budget Bureau on or before
July is. Indications are, however, that
they will be transmitted the latter part
Of next week.
Requests Are Modified.
The financial requests of all Of the
major departments of the municipal
government have been reviewed and
modified, and the Commissioners now
are considering the estimates of the
sewer department and the National
Capital Park and Planning Commission.
reviewed, and it is planned to pass upon
them before Commissioner Taliaferro
leaves on his vacation trip,
Although the Budget B .reau. in
written instructions to the Federal de-
partments directed that the financial
requests for 1891 not exceed the ap-
preparations provided for the 1880 fiscal
year beginning Monday, the Commits
Sioners, it was said, probably will adj
here to their original decision to sub
NIT estimates for about $48,O0O,0O0 in
lne tentative budget. The regular ap-
preparations for the District for 1880
total SAL, 495 900, but the $4,000 600
recently appropriated for beginning the
acquisition of the municipal center site
together with supplemental appropria-
tons the Commissioners intend to seek
at the regular session of Congress in
December, which will be added to the
1880 figures, will bring the total to ap-
proximately $45,000,000. The District.
under the Budget Bureaus edict, there
lore, would be entitled to submit es-
Inmates totaling that figure for 1881,
which is 100000 under the amount
liked Tor the tentative budget.
Custom 10 Be Followed.
It was pointed out, however, that it
has been the custom of the Commits
6lonerS 10 SenO 70 the Bu0geC Bureau In
the tentative estimates requests for APP
preparations which are urgently needed
and which the District can meet out of
its available revenues from taxes and
other sources. This policy win be fol-
lowed this year, although the budget
bureau may order a reduction in the
$48, 000,000 figure and return the esti-
mates for revision.
The public school items constitute the
largest individual group of items In the
tentative estimates. The Commission
ers, it is understood, trimmed about
100000 from the board of education's
original estimates, but the total figure
to be passed on to the Bureau of the
Budget is said to be slightly in excess
Of $13,0Oo,00O.
The Commissioners also have made
cuts in the estimates of virtually all
other municipal departments, though
none of them is regarded as drastic.