Evening star., 1935-07-24
$50, ,120 D. c. Health Fund
and Other Items Are
Tentatively O. KID.
$150,0O0 WATER PUMPS
ALLOTMENT IS FAVORED
100000 for Park Development
and $11, 100000 Accounting
Office Are Included.
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

The Senate was slated to pass the
$297, sos 900 second deficiency bill
this afternoon. containing the fund OF
$50, 100 for better health protection in
The District and a number of other
local items.
The sections of the bill affecting
the District all were approved without
debate late yesterday. but final action
or the bill as a whole was put OF
until today because of several contro-
verSial national items.
As it came from the House, the bill
carried about S542,OO0 for District
agencies, mostly for routine operating
expenses OF hospitals and welfare in
st;tutions. The Senate Appropria-
tons Committee then added the
Health Department amendment. and
$l50,O00 for the Water Department to
replace old pumps at the Mcmillan
Park Filtration Plant.
SSOO,OOO Park Advance.
The Senate Committee also gave
the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission another advance of
100000 for park development. under
the Capper- -Cramton act of 1880.
While this is Federal appropriation
the District Government is required
by the 1880 law to repay it in subse-
quent years.
One Senate amendment authorizing
new general accounting Office, to
cost Sl1 $50 600 on the square directly
east of the Senate Office Building, met
temporary setback today when the
Senate reconsidered its action in
adopting the amendment yesterday
Senator johnson. Republican. of
California, at whose request the
amendment was reconsidered, ex-
planned he was not present when it
was acted on yesterday and wanted
the Senate to give it further study.
1t will come up for final decision later
in the day.
The Senate amendment was adopt
ed as a substitute for the House
plan to spend $4,700,000 enlarging the
old Pension Office in Judiciary Square.
liz oC1ldIC I4llS
change after being urged not to make
an expenditure on the Pension Office
that would prevent its removal at
some future time to make way for a
new District Supreme Court Building.
The square directly east of the Sen
ate Office Building was designated for
the new general accounting Office.
For extension of the air-condition-
ing system to all parts of the Capitol
Building and the House and Senate
Office Buildings, the Senate has added
So $50 900 to the bill
Total Increase S73,000,000.
Counting increases for. various Fed
eral purposes throughout the country,
the Senate has added about S73 ,0O0.-
900 to the deficiency bill as it came
from the House.
Although not as large as some of
the other District amendments, the
Health Department item is regarded
as one of the most important, and
was placed in the bill at the request
Of Chairman King of the Senate Dis
trict Committee, to enable the new
health officer, DR.. Rutland, to carry
out his plan fer more preventive
work by building up a nursing corps
and broadening school inspection.
Among the issues remaining to be
settled today before the bill passes
are amendments to increase the funds
of the Federal Trade Commission and
the Petroleum Administration
Senator Duffy, Democrat. of Wis
consin, proposed that the Trade Com
mission appropriation be raised from
100000 to 100000 to continue its
Nation wide milk inquiry. Senator
Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, Of
fered the amendment to increase the
Petroleum Administration appro-
priatton from 100000 to $600,000
Other individual amendments prob
ably will be offered during the day.