Evening star., 1932-12-13
Plea for s1,250,000 Total Is
in Hands of Committee
on Appropriations.
DEFICIENCIES GROUP
TO MEET NEXT WEEK
District Welfare Body Has Balance
of $4,000 and 100000 Given
by Community Chest.

Hope was held cut today for prompt
House action on request for a $780,
900 appropriation for emergency relief
in the District to prevent a drastic cur
tailment in the work Of the Board of
Public Welfare among the unemployed
of the Capital.
The boards appeal for funds. cut by
the Commissioners from Sl,500000, was
forwarded to the House by President
Hoover last Friday, it was disclosed to-
day following the decision of the Re-
lief Committee yesterday to cut down
the scale of its relief. When the de-
cision was made, it was explained to-
day. the board had not been informed
that the request for the emergency ap-
propriation was in the hands OF the
House Committee on Appropriations.
The Subcommittee on Deficiencies OF
the House District Committee Will be
called together early next week to con-
slider the welfare item.
Subcommittee Members.
The subcommittee is composed OF
Chairman Byrns. Representatives Bu-
chanan, Taylot, Colorado; Ayres, Kan
sas; Arnold, Illinois. and Collins. Mis-
sissippi all DeHocrats, and Represent
atives Wood. Indiana; Wason, New
Hampshire; Murphy, Ohio. and Hardy
= EHaA,hI;o,,r
The n,-srgency relief item for the
Disty.N was explained by Col. j. Claw
son Roop. director OF the budget. In
the letter of transmittal as follows:
Under date of March II, 1882, there
was transmitted to Congress a supple
mental estimate Of appropriation 1or
the District of Columbia for the fiscal
wear 1893 in the amount OF S600OO0 LOT
relief to residents of the District OF Co
Iumbia who were unemployed or other
wise in distress because OF the exist
ing emergency. The District OF Column
bia appropriation act for the fiscal year
1888 provided S350,o00 for this pur-
pose.
"The total expenditures from this
appropriation for the period August
1a32 to November 10, 1882. inclusive
amounted to s241 ,686, of which S223,925
was for relief purposes and s17.760 for
administration, leaving balance OF
slo8 314. For the month ending Nov
ember 10. relief was furnished to ap.
proxirnately $500 families at a cost OF
S252O8. At that rate the balance VIII
be exhausted before Christmas. Through
temporary assumption. however, OF a
portion of this burden by the District
of Columbia Committee on Employment,
one of the member organizations OF
the Community Chest of Washington,
it is expected that this balance will be
sufficient to carry the relief work until
the second week Of January.
THE Commissioners of the District
of Columbia believe that S1,250,00O Will
be required for the continuance OF the
relief work for the following 12-month
period, and the purpose of this esti-
mate is to provide the necessary funds
S35,000 for Salaries.
THE amounts for salaries in the
above estimates include approximately
S35,00O. which will have to be i'm
pounded as legislative furlough under
the provisions of Section ITO of Title
of Part of the act making appropria-
tions for the legislative branch OF the
Government for the fiscal year ending
June 80. 1888. and for other purposes,
approved June 30, 1882.
Approximately SAL 100000 of the
expenditures contemplated under the
appropriations for which the above es-
Inmates are submitted have been in
cluded in the statement of expendi-
lures for the current fiscal year 1898
contained in the budget for 1884.
The foregoing estimates of appro-
priations and drafts of proposed pro-
visions pertaining to existing appro-
priations are required to meet con-
tingencies which have arisen since the
transmission of the budget for the fiscal
years involved and their approval is
recommended"
Following the meeting yesterday
Sidney F. Taliaferro, chairman of the