Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-04
Hoover Sends Suggested
Appropriation Figures
to Congress.
CORPORATION COUNSEL
INCREASE is INCLUDED
$240,000 Asked for School Books
and Supplies, $S7, 800 for Police
Pay and 5000 for Hospital.

Supplemental estimates Of appropria-
lions for the District of Columbia for
the fiscal year beginning July next,
totaling 1854, 300, were submitted to
Congress today by the President.
This budget includes $4,000 additional
for personal services in the office of the
corporation counsel; $4,000 additional
for text books and other education sup
plies; for construction of an eight-room
extensible building in the vicinity of
Connecticut avenue and Upton street,
$4,000; for construction of an addi-
ton to the Stuart Junior High School,
including 10 class rooms and two gym
nasiuIns, $240,000; salaries for the
metropolitan police, $4,000, and an
additional amount for personal serv-
ices at Gallinger Municipal Hospital,
$4,000.
In explaining the need for additional
funds for the corporation counsel's
Office, the Budget Bureau said that this
Is to provide for an assistant to the
corporation counsel, who shall be an
expert in public utilities law and prac-
tice. The corporation counsel is the
general counsel for the Public Utilities
Commission, and the commission joins
with him in urging that provision be
made for the appointment Of an assist
ant to the corporation counsel so skilled
in the field of public utilities law as to
be able adequately to handle the COM
pick legal questions that are coming
before the commission in increasing
numbers.
School Sum Explained.
In explaining the need for $4,000
for school books and supplies, the bud
get for the fiscal year 1881 contains an
estimate of appropriation of $135, 900
for text books and school supplies for
pupils of the first eight grades in the
public schools. An act approved Janu-
airy 81, 1880, became law subsequent to
the transmission of the 1881 budget and
this new law authorizes the Board Of
Education to provide text books and
other necessary educational books and
supplies for the use of all pupils in
the public schools, including the junior
high and senior high schools as well
as the elementary schools. The pur-
pose of the estimate submitted today
Is TO provide the additional amount
necessary to carry into effect this new
law.
The purpose of the estimate totaling
$380,000 for new school building con-
struction is to provide for an eight
room building in the viicpity of Con-
neeticut avenue and Upshur street and
a 10-room addition with two gym
nasiums at the Stuart Junior High
School to meet the needs for increased
school facilities at these locations.
Police Increase Explained.
The additional amount of salary for
the Metropolitan Police Force, S37 800.
IS explained as follows by the Budget
Bureau:
''There are IA police precincts in the
District of Columbia, each of which is
of1cered by captain and lieutenant.
At present the captain remains on duty
Tor 10 and lieutenant for IA hours daily,
All members Of the force below the rank
OF lieutenant are on duty for hours
daily. The purpose of the estimate sub
mitted today is to provide the amount
lowances of IA additional lieutenants
during the fiscal year 1881, in order
that the daily hours of duty of the
captains and lieutenants may be placed
upon an 8-hour basis"
The reason for the $4,000 estimate
for personal services at Gallinger Mu-
nicipal Hospital is that since the sub
mission Of the budget for 1881 it has
been disclosed that the estimates of
appropriation for personal services con-
templatedf deductions from the salaries
OF certain employees on account of sub
stStence and quarters to be furnished
them, whereas it now appears that
these employees will not be subsisted and
quartered at the hospital, and hence
should receive their salaries without
such deductions.