Evening star., 1935-04-09
Six Ready to Meet House
Members and Adjust
Differences.
LARGER U. S. SHARE
PROVIDED IN MEASURE
Funds Increased $3,000,000 in
Amendments Supplied to
Meet Needs.

pr1at1on bill into conference was taken
this afternoon when Vice President
Garner appointed the Senate con-
ferees. They are Senators Thomas,
Democrat. of Oklahoma Glass, Demo-
crat, of Virginia; Copeland, Democrat.
of New York; King. Democrat, of
Utah; Nye, Republican, of North
Dakota, and Keyes, Republican, of
New Hampshire.
The House is expected to name its
conferees later today or tomorrow. The
bill passed the Senate late yesterday
carrying $42, ,785, ,619 and with the Fed
eral share raised to $8317,50 AS it
came from the House the bill had con-
tained only $39, ,308, ,404, with Federal
contribution of $5,700,000. The task
confronting the conferees will be to
reach an agreement on the various
amendments by which the Senate is
seeking to provide for essential main
tenance and improvement items not
carried in the House bill, together with
the more equitable Federal obligation
toward this increased total.
Since the House bill amounted to
$39, 1908 ,404, with the Federal pay
ment held down to the 1885 figure
of $5,700,000, the conferees will have
two distinct tasks before them. One
is to adjust the series of increases
by which the Senate sought to pro-
vide for maintenance items and i'm
provements deemed essential by local
officials and civic leaders. The other
is the basic question of determining
what the Federal obligation should be
toward whatever total is agreed upon
for the coming year.
The Senate amendments added a
total Of $3,477,215 to the bill, mainly
to provide better housing for District
school children, for an increase in
the size of the police force, for hos
pital maintenance and public health
work, and to create work for men
on the relief rolls by carrying on
more street work out of the gasoline
tax fund
Thomas Receives Praise.
Under the leadership of Senator
Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, the
measure went through the Senate
without difficulty yesterday afternoon,
and just before its passage Senator
Copeland, Democrat, of New York,
paid tribute to the devoted, un-
selfish service rendered by the Sen
ator from Oklahoma" in seeking to
have the bill meet the needs of the
Capital City.
Copeland, who also is an active
member of the subcommittee on Dis
trict appropriations, said the people OF
the District owe Chairman Thomas
a debt of gratitude for the time and
? energy he devoted to the bill.
AS soon as the measure had passed
= Thomas moved that the Senate in
sist upon its amendments, ask con-
ference with the House and that the
chair appoint conferees.
It was expected the House will ap-
: point its conferees this afternoon or
tomorrow, after which Senate con-
ferees will be named.
No Objections Met.
No opposition was raised in the
s Senate to the Appropriations Com
nittee recommendation for a larger
Federal payment, nor was there
dissenting voice on any of the amend
ments to make better provision for
the needs of the city
Only two changes, both additions,
were made to the committee recon-
: rnendations on the floor; an increase
J of $4,000 for printing and $4,000
increase obtained by Senator Copeland
in the item for medical service for
the poor
Senator Thomas said the increase in
the printing allowance was necessary,
after Senators Fletcher of Florida and
Hayden of Arizona had succeeded in
putting back in the bill House pro-
viso that will require the city to have
all its printing work done at the Gov
ernment Printing ONCE. The Senate
committee had eliminated this re-
quirement upon hearing testimony
that it would prevent the municipal
fly from doing some of its own print
ing. Fletcher, chairman of the Joint
Committee on Printing, presented let
ters from the G. P. O. disputing the
to have that institution do all the
work.
Senator Borah, Republican, of
Idaho, inquired whether the District
Committee or the Appropriations Sub
committee had made any study of the
care of tubercular children here.
Senator Thomas said the Senate had
restored to the bill not only the budget
figures, but also additional sums the
Commissioners had recommended for
the Children's tuberculosis Sana-
torium.
b Referring to the children's institu-
tion, Senator Borah said he had been
given information indicating that "ex-
penditures along this line, in many
respects, have not been carried on
with intelligence" He did not go
into details.
~ Aid Given Commissioners.
Senator Thomas said he does not
find it possible to investigate person.
ally all District affairs. Speaking for
himself, he said, he is following the
general policy of trying to help the
Commissioners to run the city the
way they believe it should be man
aged. He pointed out that in this in
stance the committee gave the Com
missioners the amount for next year
that they recommended to the Budget
> Bureau.
This statement applied also to the
increase in the Federal obligation.
The figure approved by the Senate.
$s,317,5o0, is the amount the Com
missioners asked for in their original
estimates last Fall At that time, after
they had decided what they regarded
would be the minimum total the Dis
trict would need for essential projects
for next year, they also decided that
District residents we're paying reason
, able property taxes on the existing
assessments and rate. Accordingly,
they asked that the Federal Govern