Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-14
ID. c. BILL REPORTED
| TO SENATE CARRIES
S46,09O,S37 TOTAL
Figure Is Increase of Nearly
100000 Over Sum
House 0.K.'d.
$4,000 FUND PROVIDED
FOR NEW JANNEY SCHOOL
100000 Added for Bicentennial
Group-Salary Increases Hinge
on Precedent.

Carrying $4,000, 1897, an increase Of
S474,089 over the House total, the Dis
trict appropriation bill for the next
fiscal year was reported from the Sem
ate Appropriations Committee today by
Senator Bingham Of Connecticut.
The report shows the COMMITTEES al
lowed many Of the additional sums re-
quested by local officials and citizens
during the hearing early this week.
The two largest items added by the
Senate committee were: To defray the
expenses Of the local George WASH
ngton Bicentennial Commission, $780,
600, and for a new building at the
Janney School in Tenleytown, sl2o. oOO
As was indicated by Senator Bingham
10 days ago, the Senate committee made
no change in the House provision con-
unuing the Federal contribution nc
$9.5Oo.000 for the next fiscal year.
that the special House committee study
ing fiscal relations has not completed its
work.
Salary Increases Included.
MADE
by the Senate committee includes Sill
$40 for salary increases in UNDER
average cases throughout the municipal
service. This question of salary in
creaSeS Is involved in all the appropri-
alton bills and whatever is done in one
case VIII be followed in all the supply
plls. The Senate conferees on the
interior appropriation bill have already
Yielded to the House on the salary issue
ny agreeing to drop the increases in
mat Dill for the coming year. The
Senate will vote this afternoon on the
Interior conference report and If the
report is adopted it will mean the end
OF the salary fight until the next Con-
greSs.
1t seems likely, therefore, that these
salary increases Of $111,520 in the Dis
tr1ct bill will be abandoned before the
bill passes, which will reduce the total
OF the bill by that amount.
Increases for Schools.
In addition to the item for extending
the Janney School. the Senate commit
tee made the following increases for
The public school system:
For the construction of an addition
to the Woodbridge School, the Senate
committee raised the item from $780,
600 to $4,000 to provide eight instead
of four rooms.
For the extension of the Ben Murch
School the allowance was increased
from $40, 900 to $40 900 to provide for
eight rooms instead of four
An increase of SAT, 654 was made in
the item for school furniture; for adj
ditional janitors, an increase of 81 400;
for a survey of ittiteracy in connection
with the Americanization School, a new
item Of $1,000; for teachers and libra
rians, $4,000 was added; for clerks and
other employees, $500 was added. This
made total of $202,674 added for
school purposes.
Fund for kindergarten.
The committee granted the request
OF the school authorities to continue o
kindergarten for children under years
of age at the Webster School, to ac-
commodate foreign-born mothers who
bring their children to that school
while they are attending Americaniza-
ton classes.
The only reduction made by the Sem
ate committee was the elimination of
the House provision for purchase of, a
site in the vicinity of the Keene School,
which reduced by $4,000 the total
amount for school sites.
For the Board of Public Welfare the
Senate committee added $500, of
which $4,000 is to meet the growing re-
quirements on the fund for home care
of dependent children under the moth
ers' pension law The remainder of
the public welfare increase is for en-
ployment of one additional case worker
and some additional employees at the
tuberculosis Hospital.
Buildings and Parks.
Under public buildings and parks
the Senate committee added $7o,295 for
the following purposes:
To extend a roadway in Rock Greek
Park from the end of Beach Drive to
the District line to connect with q
new Maryland road, $4,000; for begin-
ming development of the recreational
center in the Manor Park section,
$4,000; for additional park policemen,
$12 ESQ, and for equipping park police,
an additional $1,045.
The committee added $4,000 to the
Geological Park item to provide housing
facilities for the animals to be turned
over to the park from the estate of the
late Victor Evans.
The Senate committee did not add
or subtract from the street paving pro-
gram, but struck out of the House bill
language which contemplated the
widening of B street to 80 fact, leaving
the item for repaving only on B street
between Fourteenth and Virginia avenue.
The committee added language making
this appropriation imms diately available.
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