Evening star., 1935-11-26
PLEA FOR LARGER
D. C.LUMP SUM TO
CO TO ROOSEVELT.
Budget Bureau Is Reported
Impressed by Need for
More Than SIS, 700, 900.
$8,317,500 REQUEST
TRIMMED SOMEWHAT
New Sources of Revenue Now Be-
ing Sought to Meet Require
ments-Estimates Shaping Up.

The Budget Bureau, it was reported
today, is planning to carry the plea
of the Commissioners for Federal
payment of S8,317,500 toward the ex-
penses of the District in the coming
fiscal year directly to President Roose-
welt.
Impressed with the argument OF the
Commissioners, in justification of an
increase above the current S5,7O0,OO0
appropriation from the Federal Treas
ury, the bureau, it was said, will let
the President dictate the figure to go
into the appropriation bill.
The District estimates for 1887, to-
eether with those of various Federal
departments, are now being whipped
into final shape. Budget officials will
take them to Warm Springs, Ga, in
a few days for review by the President.
Seek New Sources.
The Commissioners, it is understood,
based their request for a higher Fed
eral payment on the unfairness OF
the S5,7OO,OO0 appropriation and the
fact that the District is faced with
tapping new sources of revenue to
meet ever rising expenses. A special
tax committee, headed by Corpora
ton Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman.
is now at work on a program to
show how additional revenue can be
raised.
In recommending a Federal pay
ment of $8,317,500, the Commissioners
followed a precedent established last
year when they proposed a similar
sum for the 1886 budget. This was
approximately the average Federal
payment over the preceding 10-year
period. The Commissioners regard
this as fair as any method Of calcu-
1ating a lump-sum payment.
That figure met the approval OF
the Senate. but was rejected finally
in conference at the insistence of the
House.
The original estimates of the Com
missioners for the coming fiscal year
totaled 47,482, ,760, an increase of
S5,276,145 over the appropriation for
the present fiscal year. This budget
was predicated on Federal payment
of $8,317,500 and continuance of the
existing $3.50 tax rate.
The Budget Bureau, however, is
reported to have made some cuts in
the figures of the Commissioners, but
the amount will not be disclosed until
the President submits his budget
recommendations to Congress in jan
uary.
Plans have been made by various
priations Committee to begin hearings
on estimates of various Federal de-
parments early next month, so that
some of the supply bills will be ready
for House consideration as soon as
Congress convenes.
d. c. Budget in January.
The District estimates, however, ac-
cording to Representative Cannon,
Democrat, of Missouri, chairman of
the subcommittee in charge of the
District appropriation bill, will not be
considered until some time in jan
uary. Cannon as well as other mem
bers of his subcommittee also serve
on other subcommittee handling the
big Federal supply bills. and therefore
will be unable to tackle the District
budget until the Federal measures are
out of the way.
On the District subcommittee with
Cannon are Representative Blanton,
Democrat, of Texas; jacobson, Demo-
crat, of Iowa, and Otter, Republican,
OF Pennsylvania.