Evening star., 1935-04-02
Subcommittee Will Favor
S8,3OO,OO0 Fund as
Federal Share.
141 MORE POLICEMEN
VOTED AFTER HEARING
Other Items Reported Included
for Meeting of Appropriations
Committee Tomorrow.
BY J. A. O'LEARY.

Granting many of the Improvements
and maintenance items asked during
the hearings. and raising the Federal
share from s5,700.O0O to approximately
s8,300,000. the District subcommittee
of the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee today completed the rewriting
Of the 1886 local supply bill
One of the most important changes
was the allowance for l4l additional
policemen, in response to the plea of
organized citizens, supported by the
Special Crime Committee Of the
House
The subcommittee will not announce
the list of amendments to he House
bill it has recommended until the en-
tire Senate Appropriations Committee
meets. probably tomorrow, to ratify the
report. 1t is understood. however.
that on the basic issue of how the cost
of maintaining the city should be sp-
portioned between the United States
and the local community. the subcom-
mittee decided TO follow the recon-
mendation of the District Commission
ers, who suggested when they prepared
their estimates that a Federal pay
ment equal to the average of the va
rious lump sums that have been ap-
propriated annually for the last 10
years, would be a fair proportion TO
meet the Federal obligation for the
coming year.
Increase Of So. 500. 900.
This 10-year average figure. the
Commissioners found, would be So.
$4,000. representing an increase of
approximately s2,6OO,000 over the
lump-sum payment for the current
year. which the House voted to con-
tinue in the pending bill.
The action of the Senate subcom-
mittee also is a recognition of the
plea made at the hearings last week
by the Citizens Joint Committee on
Fiscal Relations between the United
States and the District. representing
virtually all organized groups in the
city. and by the Municipal Finance
Committee of the Board of Trade
These groups appealed to the Senate
to place the Federal share at a more
equitable figure.
The Senate subcommittee restored
an item to continue the character
education work. started in the public
schools this year The House struck
out the s87 500 recommended for
continuing this new field of education.
The exact amount restored by the
Senate group is not known. This
movement has been championed by
Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New
York.
Bridge Fund Restored.
The subcommittee restored the
$4,000 for drawing plans for new
bridge over the Anacostia River. at
Pennsy lvania avenue southeast. urged
by various civic and business groups
in that part of the city
Authority to use s125.G00 out of the
gasoline tax funds to buy materials
and equipment to be used by men
on the relief rolls to carry on beneficial
highway improvements was approved
1t is understood the Senate group
also made better provisions for pub
lie health work and for the opera
GiOll vi llOoklldlS. NIlCiC lLlC
had slashed hospital maintenance
items. Among the more urgent of
these reductions which the Senate
subcommittee was asked to restore
we're for maintenance at Gallinger.
the tuberculosis Hospital and the
ChildrenS tuberculosis Sanitarium.
1t was reported that the subcom-
maintenance of community centers
and Fairgrounds.
Water Increase Allowed.
Other increases were allowed in the
Water Department, which is financed
directly out of water rent and had
more revenue available to meet its
needed Improvements than the House
allowed it to spend. AS the bill came
from the House it contained a total
of S39, 9,308.0O0
The aggregate amount of the va
rious items added by the Senate
Subcommittee will not be made known
until the bill is ready to be reported.
but the total may be several million.
The House took $l,066.418 off the
budget estimates, and some of the
Senate amendments. it is believed.
will be over and above those House
cuts. The additional police. for in
stance. were not included in the
budget estimates.
Senator Thomas. Democrat. of
Oklahoma. chairman of the District
Subcommittee. will have charge of
the bill when it is taken up in the
Senate either late this week or early