Evening star., 1933-02-28

amount 10 DC spent tlc IlISt year was
left at $500,000. It is to be built In
the Reno section at Forty-flrst and
Chesapeake streets.
House Tuition Plan Rejected.
Regarding nonresident school pupils,
the Senate knocked out the House pro-
vision which said that no children from
outside the District could be admitted
without tuition, except those enrolled on
the day this bill becomes law. The
Senate group then inserted last years
language, which provides that the chill
dren of men in the Army, Navy and
Marine Corps and the children of other
employees Of the United States, sta
mitted without tuition.
For the Police and Fire Departments
the committee restored Budget Bureau
items for uniforms and equipment, and
for repair Of fire apparatus, which had
been cut out by the House.
In the Health Department the COM
mittee also put back sums cut from
the budget figures In the House and
also allowed $4,000 for the social hy-
giene service.
Under the Board Of Public Welfare.
the Senators allowed items which the
House had cut from the operating
al
the tuberculosis Hospital the Chill
dren's tuberculosis Sanatorium, the
District Training School, the Industrial
Home School and the Industrial Home
School for Colored.
Additional funds were placed in the
bill for continuing the building pro-
gram at the Lorton Reformatory.
Water Items Put Back.
The House reduced the budget figures
for various activities of the Water De-
partment, despite the fact that such ac-
ton would leave an unexpended balance
In the water fund at the end Of next
year, which could not be used for any
other purpose. The Senate Committee,
therefore, restored these Water Depart
ment items. There will be ample money
collected from water users to meet
these appropriations, 1t was said, even
after allowing for the saving to con-
sumers' through a House provision
granting 10 per cent discount on all
water bills paid within Is days from
rendition
The various allowances for the Dis
trict Militia eliminated from the budget
estimates by the House were restored
by the Senate Committee.
The committee also allowed funds the
House cut from the estimate Of the
Public Buildings and Public Parks Of
flee for the Anacostia Park development.
The question of whether taxicabS In
Washington should continue to operate
on the fat-rate zone system or be me-
tered was vigorously debated at the
Senate hearings. The Utilities Com
mission some time ago issued a meter
order, which was sustained in court,
hrIt vh{ ho
into effect by a restriction in the cur
rent appropriation act. The House re-
newed the ban in this bill, and the
Senate knocked 1t out to permit meters,
subject to the rate Limitation referred to.
New Work Listed.
In addition to the new bridge over
Rock Creek at street, the Senate
Committee added more than 80 new
street paving jobs and increased some
of the lump-sum work Of the Highway
Department, the net result Of which
raises the gasoline tax program from
81, TAI $50 to S2849,3 $50. New streets
provided for improvement follow:
Northwest - Oliver street. Broad
Branch road to Nevada avenue; Nevada
avenue. Nebraska to Thirty-siXth street;
Forty-sixth street, Fessenden to Daven-
seventh; Elliott, Forty-sixth to Forty
seventh; Forty-ninth, Albemarle to
Chesapeake; Forty-ninth. Massachu-
sets avenue to Albemarle; Walbridge
place, Park road to Adams Mill rcad
Twelfth street, Rittenhouse to Sheri-
dan; Twenty-sixth street. Virginia to
New Hampshire avenues: Sixteenth
street, Columbia road to Tiger Bridge;
Rttenhouse, Georgia avenue to Twelfth
street; Seventh street, Nicholson to
Oglethorre; Nicholson, Sixth to Sew
enth; Longfellow. Second to Third
Tuckerman, Second place to Third
street; Tuckerman, Eighth 10 Ninth
Dahlia, Georgia avenue to Ninth;
Eighth. Aspen to Butternut; Ninth.
Aspen to Butternut; Reservoir road,
Foxhall to Conduit road Thirty first
street, from the c. &, o. Canal to K
street; South street. Thirty-first street
to Wisconsin avenue: Conduit road,
Reservoir road to District line, and for
the grading Of Porter street. from Con-
necticut avenue to Klingle road.
Southeast-Park place, Twenty-fifth
street, 800 feet east; Palmer place.
Twenty-fifth street, $50 feet east: First
street, N to o: o street, First to Sec
ond; Second street. N to o, and Good