Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-11
CITIZENS REQUEST
CUT IN ESTIMATES
Council Would Pare Total
From $54,177,3O2 to
$47,788,375.

The citizens advisory council last
night completed its job of going over
the Districts 1882 estimates and, after
two nights consideration, advised the
District Commissioners to cut down
hundreds of the items asked for by the
department heads to bring the total
to be spent in 1882 to SAT, 1884, 75, in
stead of the estimated $54,177,302.
Most of the big items got by without
much discussion, but many of the small
ones called for rather caustic COM
ments. The council did not like the
frequency with which the term social
worker" bobbed up. The found that
these workers are carried by the Board
of Public Welfare, the Juvenile Court,
the Women's Bureau, and the public
schools. So it adopted a resolution
asking the Commissioners to cut out
some Of the Overlapping" work.
The biggest struggle was over re-
quest by the Board of Public Welfare
for $4,000 to build a cottage for the
chief engineer of the District Training
School for predetermined children, To-
| Gated at Muirkirk, Md, and requests
for $4,000 for an inf1rmary building
for the school and 100000 for relocat-
| ing the school sewers and heating plant.
Votes for Cut to $4,000.
"Ten thousand dollars for a cottagel"
exclaimed Councilman William A. Rob-
erts. MY house did not cost as much
as that, and I had to pay a good slice
Of the price for my lot, which, they
tell me, Is in an exclusive residential
section"
Don't you think" inquired Council
man Harry N. Stull, that when they
put down $4,000 they really expect a
cut to S6,0O0?"
The council agreed that this was
| what they" meant, so it voted for
| $4,000. The council all except Chair
man George c. Havenner, seemed
aghast at the large expenditures asked
| for this one institution for the infirm-
| airy and relocating the sewers. Haven
| ner explained that when the District
had first bought the place, the build
ings were put around hodge-podge, with
no system. Now there is a system and
plan, and 1t will cost eventually
| IS, 900 ,00o to tear down the wrong work
| and put up the new.
When the matter was put to the vote,
the sewer item lost, Az, but the in
Urinary item was carried.
Throughout the discussion DR.. z. z.
Richardson sought increases for the
various physicians carried by the Board
Of Public Welfare and other institu-
tions, saying 1t was disgrace to pay
some physicians $50 a month and at
the same time to raise the pay of fire.
men and policemen. His views did not
prevail.
Dog Death Chair Is Rejected.
The council opposed any increase to
the Health Department for employing
more physicians and nurses for school
child inspection, but after a somewhat
heated discussion voted 4 to 2 in favor
Of an item of $3.50 for machine to test
| the hearing of pupils. The vote against
| an electric chair with which to kill the
dogs at the dog pound was unanimous.
Increases for new clerks at Juvenile
Court were opposed but the council
| favored increased compensation for the
| presiding judges of Police and Municipal
Courts. An increased appropriation for
Police Court jurors was opposed So
were all new positions and step-ups
sought by the Board of Public We'll
| fare in its salary item. The council con-
sidered carefully the question of whether
Louise, the tug boat used to bring auto
mobile tags and other merchandise from
the workhouse and reformatory, should
be allowed to retire after II years serv-
ice, and $4,000 be spent for a new
could continue for a while longer.
Some Of the other cuts recommended
| were:
Health Department, 100000 (elimi-
nate the proposed isolation building for
patients suffering from minor COM
municable diseases; workhouse and
reformatory, 100000: Gallinger Hospi-
tai, 100000; Court of Appeals, SIS, 900;
District Jail, $4,000; Tubercular
Hospital, 100000; Industrial Home
School for Colored Inmates, $4,000;
Home for the Aged and Infirm, $25, 900;
public buildings and parks, $4,000;
National Geological Park, $250,00O
(curtai construction of a proposed
mammal house,.