Evening star., 1935-06-19
MONEY PROVIDED
IN DEFICIENCY BILL
TO BEGIN BUILDING
Legislation Reported Out by
House Committee-TotaI
$224,472,561.
PROPOSALS OF BUDGET
WERE CUT $132,193,O40
SO, 900, 900 Provided for Each Of
G. P. o., Engraving Bureau
and Accounting Office.
Initial appropriations of 100000

Initial appropriations Of $e,000,000
each to start work on three new
Government buildings in the District
under a $58,000,O00 public building
budget are provided in the deficiency
appropriation bill reported TO the
House today. The three new build
ings are: For the Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing, at a limit of cost
of S5,50J,0 900; for the Government
Printing Office, at limit of cost Of
SIS 1886, 900, Ind for the General Ac-
counting Office, two new wings and
modernization of the old Pension
Office Building, at limit Of cost Of
S3,700,00O.
The total of the bill as reported Is
1924, ,472, ,561.80, which is s132,193,-
040.43 less than the budget recon-
mendations: $86,000,000 of this cut
is in the public works estimates now
lief act. In the bill as reported are
District of Columbia items aggregat-
ing S547, ,362.15. This is an increase
Of 5000 over the budget estimates
in public welfare items, of which Sl5,-
900 is for maintenance of the work
house and reformatory and $4,000 for
the tuberculosis Hospital. In re-
porting the bill, Chairman Buchanan
Of the Appropriations Committee en-
phasized that the three building prof.
ects in the District of Columbia are
conceded by every one familiar with
the situation to be the most pressing
of the space needs in the City of
Washington.
Land Cost $4,000.
The new building for the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing will also
house other activities of the Treasury
Department. The location selected is
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets southwest and C and D
streets. The estimated cost of the
land is 100000. The building is to
house important activities Of the bu-
reau now located in 13 buildings, none
of which is adapted to the work be-
ing conducted in them. Other Treas
ury Department Offices for which
space will be provided in the new
building are the operating units Of the
Public Debt Service and certain cur
rency and security units under the
Treasurer's Office.
Chairman Buchanan called atten-
ton to the fact that with the COM
pletion of this building, there will
have been established centralized and
consolidated group of Treasury units
performing related work pertaining
to the currency and the public debt.
The unsafe and antiquated practice of
transporting vast sums of money and
securities from one section of the city
to another will be discontinued.
Chairman Buchanan said that the
Government Printing Office building
project contemplates the tearing down
of IL old non-freproof buildings vary
ing in age from "a to 79 years with an
average age of SIS years.
$4,5OO,OOO for New Building.
OF the s., 1895 900 limit of cost, $4,-
100000 is for the new building on the
present site, SITS, 900 for alterations in
the present main building, $350,000 for
a railroad treStle and tunnel between
a proposed warehouse and the H street
building, S175,00 for land and $780,
600 for the warehouse. There will be
required later an additional sum of
100000 so that the Capitol power
plant may run the necessary steam
transmission line to the new building.
In eliminating entire item OF
$23, 1862, 75O.79 for payment to the gov
ernment of the Philippine Islands as
part of its currency reserve, the &C
ton of the committee is not in accord
with the provisions of the law of
June 19, 1884, which authorized the
appropriation of this sum to establish
a credit on the books of the Treasury
Department in favor of the Philippine
Islands of an amount equal to the in
crease in value of the gold equiva-
lent. The committee reported that
after a very careful and extensive
examination, no evidence was pre-
sented to show that the Philippines
had in any way been injured or suf-
fered by reason of the action Of the
United States in changing the gold
content of United States dollars.