Evening star., 1933-02-14
Amendments Will Be Offered
to Bill in House Fight
Today.
INTANGIBLE TAX ISSUE
TO RAISE POINT OF ORDER
Representative Holiday Will Lead
Effort to Save Appropriations
Cut by Subcommittee.

Efforts will be made on the floor of
the items eliminated from the District
appropriation bill by the subcommittee,
1t developed today a few hours before
consideration Of the bill was to begin.
This was expected to be brought
about by a series of amendments TO bs
offered by Representative Holiday, O
member of the subcommittee. and 9TH
ers who are said to have become con-
vinced of the futility of piling up q
surplus for the District and at the
same time imposing an increase In taxes.
Meanwhile, Chairman Cannon and
Representative Blanton of the subcom-
mittee, announced that they would
seek to fight point of order against
the provision for 20 per cent increase
In intangible tax to provide for unem-
ployment relief which Representative
VIII Wood has announced he will
raise. Representative La Guardia was
expected to move for the insertion Of
an item Of $625, 900 for relief, to be paid
out OF the general revenues.
MUCH Interest Aroused.
Consideration of the bill aroused more
interest in the House than for a number
Of years and stubborn fighting over ths
controversial items was forecast.
Representative Holiday said he In
tended to offer an amendment which
will increase to million dollars, the
appropriation item for the new Calvert
street Bridge, which was cut In the
bill to 100000.
Mr.. Holiday viii also offer an amend
ment for another new eight-room ele-
mentary school building at o cost OF
approximately 100000. He VIII offer
amendments totaling $500, 900 to $780,
600 for street improvements out Of thA
gasoline tax fund, where there Is alre6dy
surplus and from which the bA e
presented to the House bad siaSs1ed
$3.50, 600 proposed street Improvement
jobs.
Fight for Incinerutors.
Amendments also win be o6fe.ed b,
Representative Holiday TO pfg70dt the
closing down of the two high-powered
incinerators. one In Georgetown and the
other in Southeast Washington, to pre-
vent the city,s refuse being burned tr
wholesale quantities ON dumps ut the
front door of the National Capital
Another amendment by Representative
Holiday will seek to prevent the closing
down OF the testing laboratory of the
Highway Department so as to save the
salaries Of some 10 men.
In all, Representative Holiday has
prepared Is amendments which he be-
neves are essential in the appropriation
bill.
Representative Smith, Democrat.
Virginia, has stated his intention Of
making points of order on innumerable
items throughout the bill which he
says are legislative proposals unsuc-
cessfully disguised.
John F. Costello, Democratic ma
tional committeeman for the District.
who was recorder of deeds during the
Wilson administration, was In confer
ence today with number of Demo-
cratic leaders, pointing out to them
that the recorders Office would be
practically destroyed If the provisions
OF the bill are approved.
Smith May Lead Fight.
1t Is probable that Representative
Smith, who is member of the House
District Committee, will lead the fight
for the recorder of deeds office.
Representative La Guardia, Republi-
can, New York, intends to offer the
amendment to restore to the bill the
S625, 900 item for emergency relief for
the period from July to December 81.
Representative Anthony Grimm,
Democrat, New York, Is prepared to
offer an amendment to protect the office
of register of wills against which
Representative Blanton has announced
that he will make vigorous fight.
An effort probably will be made also
to have put into the bill an approprta-
ton for the Jefferson Junior High
School This item has been urged by
William E. Miller, president of the
Southwest Business Mems Association,
and the fight for that appropriation
probably will be made by Representative
Simmons, Republican, Nebraska, former
chairman of the subcommittee in
charge of the Districts appropriation
bill.