Evening star., 1932-06-28
DISTRICT FUND BILL
AWAITS SIGNATURE
Measure Sent to Hoover After
Scrutiny by Congressional
Conferees.

All that is needed now to let the
1888 District of Columbia appropria-
ton bill become law on July l is Pres
ident Hoover's signature.
Congress put the finishing touches on
the conference report late yesterday,
with result that the bills authoriza-
tion for SAL PAS, ,622 will be made avail
able at the beginning of the new fiscal
year. Although this is a reduction of
considerably more than $4,000, 900 under
this years appropriation, a concession
to the demands for economy, the 1888
bill goes to the President carrying
S1,35l,812 above the sum originally
voted in the House. OF the total in
the bill, s7,755,0OO represents the
amount of the Federal lump sum con-
trtbution toward the support of the
municipal government and $3.50, 900 for
unemployment relief
The final action that sent the bill to
the President was taken in the Senate
late yesterday afternoon following the
House agreement to the conference re-
port. This was merely routine matter,
as the. Senate previously had passed
faVorably on all the provisions in the
conference recommendations. There
"NAC AfC d4AiCllQAilcIlJS, uONGNtT, WHICH
had to be acted on separately, as they
constituted legislation in an appropria-
ton BILL For this reason it was neces-
sary Tor the confereeS to report a dis
agreement so that the House could
approve them.
Salary Expenditure Limited.
One of the amendments was the
$3.50, 900 for the Public Welfare Board,
TO be expended for emergency unem-
ployment relief. Not more than S35, 900
OF this can be devoted to administrative
purposes. The amount the Senate origi-
na!ly voted was 100000 but this was
reduced in conference. The other
amendment related to the Municipal
Center
The relief fund was the subject of a
brief but bitter debate in the House
when Representative Holiday of Illinois,
Republican conferee, attacked the Com
munlty Chest, charging it used more
tnan Sl,S0o,000 to pay salaries from
$4,000 a year down"
The belligerent Mr. Holiday, how
ever was effectively refuted by Repre-
sentative ByrnS of Tennessee, chair
man of the Appropriations Committee.
who had charge of the District bill. and
Representative La Guardia of New
Oih. 4ACy CIldTBeQ JIldG f1OldQdy naQ
m1srepresented the Chest, and the latter
finally was forced to admit that he had
no exact figures relating to salaries.
Administration the Same.
The relief item finally was agreed
to when Mr.. Byrns and Mr.. La Guardia
both explained that the money would
come from the District revenues in the
same way that practically every other
large city had administered its emer-
gency relief fund this year
Representative Holidays statement
that 10000 900 of the Chests fund goes
to pay the salaries of employees is not
true and the House conferees know it
is not true" Elwood Street, director
of the Community Chest, said. 1T Is
Misrepresentation Of the worst kind"
Mr.. Street explained that the 65 con-
stituent organizations of the chest do
pay that amount to their employees. but
that less than half their funds comes
from the Chest
The Chest raised S2,417,00O, Mr..
Street declared, while the budget OF
the member organizations totaled ap-
proximately $5,500,000, more than half
of it coming from sources other than
the Chest. Therefore, Mr. Street
pointed out, the fgure of 81 800, 900
paid out in salaries should be compared
with the larger figure rather than with
the amount raised by the Chest.