Evening star., 1934-05-16
D. C.PUbL|C WORKS.
PARLEY IS friday
House Groups Will Seek
Program to Be Pushed
With Special Rule.

An executive conference Friday be-
tween a delegation from the Rules
Committee and the House District
Committee with the District Com
misSionerS and Frederic A. Delano,
president of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, Is being
arranged to try to work out a District
public works program on which the
Rules Committee will be willing to
grant a special rule for emergency
consideration in the House.
When this conference has de-
terrnined just how much of the $20,-
600 900 program can be worked under
the special rule, the House District
Committee will adopt committee
amendments to the bill which has
already passed the Senate and Is on
the House calendar. 1t is foregone
conclusion, based on statements by
leading members of both the Rules
and the District Committees, that the
new sewage disposal system for the
Capital will be the major project au-
thorized and that the bill also will
probably carry $750,000 for necessary
safeguards at the Lorton Reformatory.
Id. L. Committee Members.
The District Committee will be
represented in the conference by
Representatives Patman, Democrat
of Texas; PalmiSano, Democrat, of
Maryland, and Dirksen, Republican,
of Illinois. If Palmisano is unable to
serve Representative Weideman,
Democrat, of Michigan, will represent
the District Committee.
Chairman Bankhead of the Rules
Committee could not be reached while
the District Committee was in session
because he was attending a White
House conference, but Representatives
Greenwood, Democrat, of Indiana,
and Smith, Democrat, Of Virginia,
both prominent members of the Rules
Committee, expressed the belief the
conference could be arranged.
Commissioner Allen suggested this
solution of the difficulty when called
into conference with the District
Committee Delano was called on the
telephone and agreed to attend the
conference.
These arrangements were tentative
iy made after the District Committee
had discussed possible committee
amendments to get within the limita-
tions which the Rules Committee
thought should be placed. The sewage
disposal plant, the Lorton Reforma-
tory construction and funds for a
tuberculosis hospital were rated as
most important among the lists of
projects for which a $40, 900 900 loan
Is sought from the Public Works Ad-
ministration.
Favor Amortizing Tax.
Members Of the District Committee
also considered favorably a proposal
for a committee amendment to the
pending Senate bill calling for an in
crease in taxes of 10 cents to set up
a special fund for amortizing what
ever loan is granted by the Public
Works Administration.
Representative Cochran, Democrat, Of
Missouri, author of the separate bill
for sewage disposal system, appeared
before the District Committee, He
said the Rules Committee was pre-
pared to refuse a rule on the entire
public building program, but would
approve rule for probably half that
amount. He assured the members of
the committee that $4,000, 900 pub
lie works program for the District
would pass the House, and quoted the
minority leader as saying that it would
be absolutely unjust to deny the Dis
trict residents from sharing in the
public works fund.