Evening star., 1931-12-15
$10D,25O DISTRICT
!. !. FUND REQUESTED
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Item Included in Deficiency
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Appropriations Put Be-
.. fore Congress.

. Requests for District appropriations
~aggregating $l00250 were included in
rthe deficiency items sent to Congress
yesterday by President Hoover
y The District budget was accompanied
by draft of a proposed provision per-
1anlng to appropriation for the mu-
alicipal architects office so as to provide
100000 additional, which will be
l1ocesSary to enable the municipal al
chit c. to complete his work on the
1882 projects.
y There also was draft of a proposed
prov.sion pertain ng to the appropria-
.tion for road and street improvements
under the gasoline tax fund This in
NcleS no additional appropriation, but
eeuthoriz2s construction OF a pedestrian
Slnderpass at Twenty-fourth street and
aBenning road at the same time the
contract is let for Benning road.
= Underpass Needed.
The need for this underpass is oc-
caSioned by construction OF an extern
sive school and playground area north
of Benning road, which will be at
tended largely by children who reside
south OF Benning road. This under
spaSs can be constructed when the paw
ing work Is being done within the total
amount of S154,400 FOR paving and
@ould el inmate any later necessity for
femo"ing the portion OF the pavement
10 construct an underpaSs.
Included also was a draft of pro-
posed provision pertaining to the ap-
-propriation for incinerators, author
lzed on March 4, 1929. An appropria-
tion Of s550000 was made available for
fiscal years 1880 and 1881 and 1t was
authorized not to exceed S25 900 for the
employment Of professional services.
The information sent Congress yester-
day disclosed that it will cost s760,000
for the whole project. Language has
been inserted to enable the Commits
.sioners to reimburse the employed eX
pert for the additional services he per-
formed in preparing plans and speci-
f1cation5 to meet the requirements of
the controller general
Two public school items were in the
deficiency estimates. One was for $3.50
ror maintenance and instruction of an
additional colorei deaf mute depart
nent during half the fiscal year 1882
in the Maryland School for the Blind at
'Overlea, Md. The other item was for
e$8l 900 for the furnishing and equip
ping of nine school buildings and ad-
.rlitions and two stadiuns which will be
-Seady for occupancy during the fiscal
year 1882.
Items Are Listed.
IS The items by schools are: Dunbar
High School Stadium. ST 300: Western
rHigh School Stadium, $4,000: Key
school, $4,000 Stoddert School, $4,000:
Hearst School, $8,O00 Janney School,
$4,000; Orr School $4,000; Hine Junior
High School, $4,000; Mac1arland Junior
High School, $22,0Oo;; Faul Junior
High, $1O,0O0s and Randall School,
-S6 500.
For the Metropolitan Police Force
rSl2 2G0o is asked. The House of Deten-
Iion now occupies rented quarters at
an annual cost of $4,000. It is planned
to mov2 the House of Detention into
the station house formerly used for No.
= police precinct and to move the police
-inspectiol district headquarters now
occupying NJ. 2 police precinct station
lov"e into the No. 3 police precinct
st" ticn house.
., 1t is believed that the cost Of moving
th, House Of Detention, obtaining new
Equipment therefor and making neces-
Sary repairs and Improvements to the
NO 2 and No. 3 police precinct stat on
houses will require an appropriation
of $4,000
For TIE courts and prisons, ST 500 was
asked for printing and binding.
Hospital Plan Submitted.
= For the Public Welfare Department,
the draft of a proposed provision on
the Gallinger Municipal Hospital was
submitted. The current appropriation
act provides $4,000 for maintenance
~of isolated wards for minor contagious
. diseases at Providence Hospital. That
u, hospital was net willing to accept such
cases and it became necessary for the
Commissioners to provide for their care
in one of the buildings at Gallinger,
which vas opened July l and has since
been in active operation. The proposed
change would permit transfer not 10
exceed $3.50 from the Providence Hos
pitsl appropriation to the appropria-
ton for personal services at Gallinger
Hospital.
For the Hospital for the Insane,
$4,000 was asked. The current appro-
priation is $4,000 for the deportation OF
nonresident insane persons. The ex-
penditure for the first 1ve months of
the fiscal year amounted to s3,525. and
so an additional appropriation of $4,000
is asked.
For relief of the poor in the District,