Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-04

conference report before the Senate and
It was ratified after q few words Of
discussion.
Glass Refuses 10 Sign.
Senator Carter Glass, Democrat of
Virginia, who would not sign the con-
ference report, said: IT merely wanted
to indicate to the Senate that ! have
declined to sign the conference report,
since persist in the belief that the
United States Senate, under the Consti-
tuition, is still an integral part Of the
legislative branch Of the Government
Therefore, I would not sign the report. I"
Senator Glass, throughout the weeks
Of discussion over the local bill. con-
tended that the $l2,000,O00 Federal
contribution proposed by the Senate was
reasonable.
President Hoover arrived at the Cap
itol shortly before the final step was
taken on the District bill, and it was
carried to him and signed Immediately.
In view of the fact that the bill
passed three days after the opening of
the fiscal year and that the local gov
eminent has been operating technically
without funds the following provision
was placed in the act:
Bill Made Retroactive.
This act shall be effective as Of
July /. 1880, and any appropriations
and authority contained herein shall
have the same force and effect between
June 80 and the date of the enactment
of this act as though the same had be-
come law on July / and the acts of
any officer or employee performed dur
ing such period in anticipation Of the
appropriations or authority contained
herein shall not be invalidated, declared
Ineffective, or questioned solely because
of the lack Of such appropriation or au-
thority during such period"
The conferees left in the bill the
clause enabling the Commissioners TO
retain in the service DR.. William Tin
dali, veteran municipal oficial, without
regard to the retirement law, as a
recognition of the value to the city Of
his large fund Of information gathered
during more than go years of service to
the city.
The bill carries the $4,000 to estab-
lish the new farmers market in the
Southwest section near the river front
The conferees accepted the Senate
amount of $4,000 for purchase and in
stallation Of traffic lights and markers
instead Of the House figure of 100000.
copying old land records of the District
in the recorder Of deeds office.
In yielding to the House on the
100000 for going ahead with the pur-
chase Of the site for the new Municipal
Center. instead Of their own figure of
81 ,0000 900, the Senate conferees con-
cluded it would be more advantageous
to the city to buy the land rapidly.
The House agreed to extend the paw
ing Of Owen place northeast from West
Virginia avenue to Montello avenue,
$4,000 The Senate agreed to restore
items to pave Quincy street northeast,
Twelfth to Fourteenth streets, $15,700;
Vista street, Central avenue to Walnut
street northeast, $4,000.
The. conferees finally left out of the
bill the S195, 900 for paving New York
avenue northeast from Florida avenue
to Bladensburg road. The Senate agreed
to put back these two streets in the
northwest-Thirteenth street, Alaska
Morningside drive, Alaska avenue to
Kalmia road, $4,000.
The conferees dropped out $500
which the Senate had put in to pave
Oglethorpe street, Seventh to Eighth
street. and also eliminated $4,000 to
pave Sixteenth street, Columbia road to
Tiger Bridge. The House agreed to
leave in Nevada avenue, Rittenhouse
street to Runnymede place, $4,000.
The House also agreed to Senate
from the bill: r street. Twenty
eighth to Twenty-ninth, $4,000, and
Twenty eighth, @ to r, $10,700. The
Senate agreed to restore to the bill
$4,000 to pave Iris street from Thir-
tenth to Sixteenth street and the
House agreed to extend the paving of
Bancroft place east of Twenty-third as
far as Thirty-fourth, $11 900.
81 De- h.
widening of H street to q width Of So
feet from Massachusetts, avenue to
Thirteenth street. Under the House
bill 1t would have stopped at Seventh
street. The act appropriates $4,000
for this job and authorizes the Com
miSsionerS TO make contract up to
$191, 400.
In the lump-sum for resurfacing
existing streets with the same or other
approved material the Senate agreed
to the House @fgure Of 100000 instead
OF 100000.
Traction Agreement Reached.
In connection with the building Of
the new bridge on Connecticut avenue
across Klingle Valley, the confereeS
reached q compromise on the question
of the part of cost to be borne by the
Capital Traction Co. The House pro-
vided that any railway company using
the bridge should pay one-fourth of the
cost. The Senate struck this out, but
in the conference yesterday 1t was pro-
vided that the railway company should
pay whatever amount the engineers
might determine as being necessary to
make the bridge sufficiently strong for
use by street cars.
The Monroe street visdu project,
which stays In the law, provides $780,
600 for the reconstruction of the present
bridge over the Baltimore g. Ohio tracks
between Eighth and Ninth streets north
east to carry the increasing flow of
traffic. Nothing was done this year in
the appropriation act on the proposal
for a vtaduct at Michigan avenue.
The other grade crossing project
appropriated for will abolish the Chest
nut street crossing, placing a subway
in the vicinity Of Chestnut street or
the intersection of Fern place and Piney
Branch road.
Mosquito War Item Untouched.
The Senate amendment Of 100000 TO
carry on a war against mosquitoes and
their breeding places was agreed to by
the House and left in the bill.
Salary Allowance Split.
The conferees compromised on the
Senate amendment regarding salaries
for executive officers in the tAachersi
colleges, The Senate provision called
for two executive officers in each irsti-
tution-a president and a dean. The
compromise allowed one executive on
Ger for each institution and gave the
more dignified title of president" The
salary allowance was a split between
the House and Senate figures.
For expenses Of operating schools for
crippled pupils, the Senate amendment
OF SIS, 400 was agreed to, and for trans
portatlon OF children TO tubercular and
crippled schools compromise figure of
$40 nm was lat a, tl,o LtlI