Evening star., 1933-04-06
Declares School, Health,
Public Welfare and Police
Cuts Are UnWise.
SIS, 100000 U. S. SHARE
DESCRIBED AS TOO LOW
Senate Subcommittee Will Meet
Tomorrow to Map Procedure
on Measure.


the 1894 District appropriation bill was
deplored today by Senator Capper, Re-
publican, of Kansas, member of the
subcommittee that will consider the bill
in the Senate.
Il am not in sympathy with the cuts
made in the amounts for schools,
health, public welfare, police work and
other essential activities" Senator Cap
per said.
Il think it is a great mistake he
added
Senator Capper. who formerly was
chairman of the Senate District Com
mittee for number of years, also said
he regarded the lump sum of IS, zoe, 900
recommended by the Budget Bureau
and approved by the House as the Fed
eral contribution for the coming year
as " too low and not fair proportion. "
Subcommittee to Meet.
The Senate Subcommittee on Ap-
preparations will meet at 1920 am.
tomorrow to outline the procedure it
will follow in handling the supply bill,
which passed the House yesterday,
carrying $31, ,967 ,442 of regular appro-
priations.
The new chairman, Senator Elmer
Thomas, Democrat, Of Oklahoma, will
preside.
The new bill is more than $40, ,000, 900
under current appropriations and the
Federal contribution is $2,075 900 below
the current figure
The subcommittee will decide tomor-
row on the extent of the hearings.
which probably will start Monday. SEN
ator Thomas indicated he thought two
or three days would be sufficient for
hearings, in which case the bill might
be ready to be reported by the end of
next week =
Favors Liberal Contribution.
While not ready to comment on what
action he thought should be taken with
respect to the Federal contribution,
Senator Thomas said he has always IA
vored a liberal appropriation, on the
theory that this is the Nations city
rather than the city of the people of
Washington. He indicated that he re-
CARDS the control which Congress exer-
cises over the Capital as a factor en-
tering into the consideration of the
question.
In addition to Senator Thomas, the
members Of the subcommittee are {:
Senators Glass, Bratton, Copeland.
Coolidge, Nye, Keyes, Dale, Carey.
King, Tydings and Capper. The last
three are ex-officio members chosen
from the Senate District Committee.
Meanwhile the Board of Education
Is convening in special session this
afternoon to consider the problems pre-
sented by the slash in school estimates.
and mass meeting under auspices of
the District Congress of Parent
Teacher Associations is to be held at
Roosevelt High School tonight to pro-
test the reductions in school and IL
brary items.
The School Board is meeting at 2
O'Clock in executive session and as a
committee of the whole to discuss
the effects of the House bill, which
contains 1888, 900 less for school pur-
poses than current appropriations.
Inc parent-teacher congress, in ar
ranging the mass meeting tonight. has
invited various civic groups to send
delegations.
$1,675.000 Fund Added.
The only changes made in the bill by
the House were the addition of Sl.675.-
600 to the amount recommended by the
Budget Bureau. OF this sum. 81 .O4O. -
600 will come out of the surplus gaso-
line tax revenues to provide for such
emergency construction as the Presi-
dent may approve, and $685., 900 for ex-
tensions and improvements in the water
service
These additions were made in amend
mens recommended by the Appropria-
offered that the House would accent.
They were agreed to solely because
Chairman Buchanan of the Appropria-
tions Committee explained that the use
OF the gas and water fund surplus
would provide work for hundreds of
men who otherwise would be denied
employment.
Final consideration of the bill occu-
pied less than an hour. Consideration
was resumed about o'clock, shortly
after the House had accepted the con-
ference report on the District beer bill,
and SIS minutes later the bill was
passed without a record vote.
Except for the committee amendment
increasing the Water Department ap-
preparation, only one other change was
sought. Representative Smith, Demo-
crat, Of Virginia, who took a leading
part In the fight on the floor to re-
store items eliminated from the con-
ference agreement on the original 1884
bill by the Budget Bureau, offered an
amendment to increase from $3l2 to
$3.50 year the allowance to dairy in
SpectorS who use their own vehicles
The amendment was rejected, how
ever.
Seek Tax Reductions.
Shortly before the final vote, Chair
man Buchanan and Representative
Blanton, Democrat, of Texas, both de-
clared that the reductions in the ap-
preparations paved the way for the
Commissioners to make substantial
decrease in the tax rate in the coming
fiscal year.
Blanton declared the levy should be
reduced from $l.70 to $3.50, and pointed
out that If the Commissioners failed
to order the cut, Congress should do so.
Chairman Buchanan said he believed
the present $l70 levy is "exorbitant." /"
Under the provisions of this bill,
and the saving of money by the re-
ductions We have made" said Blanton,
''it will be possible for the Commission
ers Of the District of Columbia to re-
duce the tax rate in Washington from
s1.70 to $l.50 per hundred on both
real property and personal property.
and still have plenty of funds out Of
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