Evening star., 1932-03-16
Appropriation to Be Asked by
District Committee on
Employment.
NO STATEMENT is MADE
AS TO AMOUNT OF MONEY
No Further Curtailment to Be Made
in Work Program or Person
mel of Steering Body.

A resolution requesting the District
Commissioners to seek an approprle
ton of public funds for unemployment
relief will be transmitted to the city
heads in writing today by the Steering
Committee of the District Committee
on Employment. The resolution was
adopted at a meeting of the full com
mittee yesterday.
The resolution will be transmitted
without any statement as to how large
an appropriation is recommended. This
matter has not been discussed in the
meeting so far.
No Further Curtailment.
The Steering Committee at its reg
ular weekly meeting today also decloeo
no further curtailment. in the MADE
work program or the personnel OF the
committee on employment would DC
made for four weeks. Both the mace
work program and the personnel OF
the committee have been reduced oo
per cent and it had been expected tnat
another 40 per cent reduction "ouio
be made on April /.
The decision today, however, was 70
continue at the present speed tnrougH
the first two weeks in April ana tnen
taper off the activities OF the committee
during the remaining two weeks II nec-
essary. The District Spring highway
program. which is expected to result IN
the EMPLOYMENT of 1000 men at f1rst
and 5000 or 1000 ultimately, VIII not
get under way until April 10.
Speculation today centered on the
question of what the Commissioners
would do with the resolution OF tne
Committee on Employment requesting
congressional appropriations for work
relief. in view of the attitude taken at
the committee meeting yesterday by
District government employees. District
Auditor Daniel J. Donovan, whose ad-
vice on fiscal matters has great weight
with the Commissioners, led the nght
against the resolution. At one stage OF
the meeting he said:
sBeyond the possibility of a doubt,
such a resolution is outside OF the
province, authority and scope OF this
committee"
Vote Cast.
When the resolution came to vote
two of the four District employees pres
ent voted against it and The other two
did not vote. Those voting against the
resolution were Ross Haworth, secre-
tary to Commissioner Luther H. Reich
elderfer, and George S. Watson, chle1
engineer of the Fire Department. Mr-
Donovan and George S. Wilson, ol-
rector of public welfare, did not vote.
Mr.. Wilson said after the meeting, how
ever, he was opposed to the resolution.
Nevertheless, Commissioner Reichel-
derfer said today the Commissioners
hoped the resolution would come before
them Immediately and that they would
give it prompt consideration on its
merits. He said he had never intlmated
to Donovan or any one else that the
Commissioners wanted to head of such
q resolution.
The Commissioner explained he had
told e. c. Graham, chairman of the
committee, that the Commissioners
wanted any resolution on the sub]ec
to come from the whole committee, anc
not from any small subcommittee, be-
cause of the importance OF the ques-
tion involved. He said the matter nae
never been discussed by the Commits
sioners as board, but he felt sure al
of the Commissioners wanted the mat
ter adequately discussed and Woule
consider it strictly upon its merits.
The Commissioners, he said, old no
consider it beyond the scope OF tn'
committee to adopt the resolution
That was the kind of thing for which
the Commissioners had appointed ]
in the first place.