Evening star., 1932-04-12
ID. c. FUNDS BILL
| TO Be REPORTED
| TO HOUSE SHORTLY
Measure Based on Federal
Contribution of S6,5OO,O00
Due Up Next.
Ia LOCAL MEASURES
PASSED ON DISTRICT DAY
Gun-Sale Control and Banking
Regulation Proposals Sent
to Senate for Action.

10 senate Tor Actl0n.
Chairman Cannon Of the subcom-
m!ttee drafting the District appropria-
ton bill said today that he expects to
report the District bill to the House on
Thursday, but that it may be delayed
until Friday. The House leadership
and Mr.. Cannon both stated that it is
on the program of the House to have
the bill follow Immediately the legis-
lative appropriation bill, now under
consideration.
However, the special rule granted to-
day by the Rules Committee making
pay-cut legislation in order on the leg
islative appropriation bill means that
there will probably be a fight in the
House which will delay action on the
legislative bill, thus postponing consid-
Grafton of the District appropriation
bill.
Based on Lump Sum Cut.
The District appropriation bill will
be predicated on a Sc 500 900 Federal
contribution which is a reduction of
$3,000,000 from the Federal contribu-
ton IN the current appropriation act
The subcommittee on the District bill
expressed the opinion that the action
Of the House in adopting the special
legislation from the Mapes Committee
was an instruction to the subcommittee
on the District appropriation bill to cut
the Federal contribution to S6.500.000
Members of the subcommittee pre-
olcted TO-DAY that the bill will carry lit
tie or no increase over the budget figures
in the way of new items inserted by
the subcommittee. Conspicuous in the
increases will be more adequate facili-
ties for the tuberculosis and social dis
ease clinics
Owing to a change of policy in the
penal institutions Of housing all Dis
trict prisoners at Occoquan and Lor-
ton instead of sending the more dan
gerouS ones to Federal penitentiaries,
the appropriation bill will carry pro-
visions for additional guards at Oc-
coquan and will provide for an armored
bus to be used in transporting prisoners
from the District Jail.
Provide More Teachers.
Another provision in the bill will be
for number of new teachers to take
charge of new school rooms which will
come into use during the next fiscal
year.
Members of the subcommittee said
today that throughout the entire bill
miner economies have been made so as
to reduce the total expenditures as
much as possible, but that there have
been no radical cuts.
Fourteen District bills, most Of which
were urged by the Commissioners, were
passed by the House yesterday.
The more important measures pro-
vided for regulation of the sale of fire.
arms and stricter regulation of the
banking and building and loan associa-
ton business. Both now go to the Sen
ate
Eight of the measures passed by the
House yesterday had previously been
passed by the Senate, and seven of these
now go to the President for his sigma
ture. The other bill passed by both
House and Senate goes to conference
due to changes made during House con-
sideration. This is the bill requiring
insurance companies incorporated in
he District to keep their principal Office
and records here, which was amended
by the House to apply to companies al
ready Incorporated as well as those that
may be in the future.
Chairman Capper has called a meet
Ing of the Senate District Committee
for 230 o'clock tomorrow afternoon to
consider some Of the bills which require
Senate action.
Boards Get Subpoena Rights.
Among the bills passed by both Houses
70 In Tlr@- l1wzA
these: To grant police and fire boards
authority to subpoena witnesses, au-
thority for the District Commissioners
to sell additional water to nearby Mary
land counties at cost, plus per cent;
providing for admission Of pay patients
TO contagious wards of Gallinger Hos
pital; naming of the northern entrance
to the Capital at Sixteenth street
Montgomery Blair Portal' permitting
acceptance OF bequests up to S25,000
by non-profit organizations: expediting
condemnation of land by the District
Commissioners after filing certificates
Of taking, and permission for laying pc
troleum pipe lines from the AnacoStia
docks to the Griffith Consumers storage
tanks.
In addition to the firearms and bank
ing regulation bills, other measures
passed by the House which have yet to
be acted upon by the Senate, include:
Provision for widening of Michigan
avenue. west of North Capitol street.
between the Soldiers Home grounds
and the filtration plant and reservoir;
appointment of employees by the super
lntendent of schools between meetings
Of the Board of Education; approval of
a 2l2-gallon container for ice cream
and other frozen foods, and the post
ing of 100 per cent bonds by con-
tractors and subcontractors engaged on
public works projects by the District
Government.
Two Bills Withdrawn.
Because Of their controversial nature
the two District bills-providing for
amendment Of the child labor law to
permit children under 18 years OF age
TO appear IN professional performances
for limited number of hours a week.
ana for the appointment of a commits
sion to f1x the boundary line between
the District OF Columbia and Virginia.
were Withdrawn from consideration yes
terday. as Mrs. Norton, chairman of the
Dlstrlct Committee, in charge of the
bills on the floor, announced. so that
members could go to the ball game. :"
AT the request of Representative
Blanton, Democrat of Texas, two other
ollls were temporarily passed over to
AVOID quorum call, which would have
forced adjournment. One of these pro-
posed to give the Acacia Mutual Life
insurance Co. Incorporated to write in
suranoe for Mas1ns, additional author
lty to go into the general insurance
business. The other proposed the crea-
| tion of board of indeterminate sem
tence and parole.
The only interruption of District day
| business was by Representative jeff