Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
FARLEY EXPECTED
TO RESTORE c. A. D.
BUILDING FUNDS
House Conferees Ready to
Oppose Air Conditioning
in Offices.
30-DAY.LEAVE BILL
TO COME UP TUESDAY
Army Promotion Measure One Of
Several of Importance Slated
for Advancement This Week.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

passed by the House and stricken from
the deficiency appropriation bill In the
Senate, is expected to be restored when
the bill goes to conference this week.
This would preserve the entire
budget of $l6,0S5, 900 for three much
needed new buildings for the Govern
ment Printing Once, the Bureau Of
Engraving and Printing and the Gen.
eral Accounting once.
House Conferees under Chairman
Buchanan of the House Appropriations
Committee are ready to oppose the
Senate amendment which appropriates
s2,550, 900 for air conditioning the
Senate and House ONCE Buildings.
The conference on this appropriation
bill totaling some s225, o0o,o 900 as 1t
passed the House and nearly $685.
000, 900 as it passed the Senate Is one
Of the important jobs ahead OF Con-
gress this week.
The House expects tomorrow under
q special rule to pass the Army pro-
motions bill under which the Army will
be dragged out of stagnancy resulting
from thousands Of officers being held
off from orderly promotion when at
the close of the World War many Of
ficers with war service were commits
stoned permanently in the Army.
Secretary Dern and the chief OF stan,
Gen. Douglas Macarthur. have i'm
pressed Congress with the need for
putting the Army on q par with the
Navy and Marine Corps IN the mat
ter of promotions.
3o-Day Leave Up.
Tuesday the House expects to pass
the two big civil service measures in
which all Government workers are in
terested. One of these restores the
old 30-day annual leave. which was
cut to is days under, the so-called
economy act" The new bill would
be Immediately effective In allowing
Is aadditioslal days vacation this year
The other bill establishes Is days sick
leave, cumulative to 40 days, with
authority to grant 80 days in advance
of any accumulated leave in the event
Of serious sickness.
There is no known serious opposi-
ton In the House to either the Army
promotions bill or the two Govern
ment workers leave bills.
There has been serious controversy
over the $4,700. 900 project to remodel
the old Pension ONCE Building on G
street, between Fourth and Fifth
streets, with two new wings for offices
to accommodate the General Account
ing Once, which has been working
under q handicap since 1t was estab-
hshed In 1921, with its force scattered
in many buildings.
Chairman Buchanan stated his be-
lief last night that when the bill Is
finally passed it will contain the
$4,700,0 900 item as 1t passed the House,
linked in with $5,500,00 for q new
building for the Bureau Of Engraving
and Printing and $685., 900 for new
structures for the Government Print
ing ONCE to replace fire-traps and
antiquated buildings with serious
structural defects that endanger the
lives of thousands of workers and mil
lions Of dollars worth Of property.
Site Is Factor.
When the Senate passed the de-
ficiency bill last week, it cut out all
reference to the General Accounting
Once, because the Senate commit
tee recommended $11,15o,000 for q
new building on Capitol Hill, which
would have meant the razing of the
historic home occupied by the Ma
tional Women's party, one Of the old
est houses in Washington, now beau
tifully restored.
The Senate committee had consid.
cred another site on lower Pennsyl-
vania avenue, but. rejected the pro-
posal on the ground the site was toe
low to permit of a subbasement re.
quired for the housing Of priceless and
voluminous records, many Of which
must be preserved to protect the Gov
eminent from extortion in claims
cases.
Controller General McCarl told the
Senate committee the remodeling OF
the old Pension Building, as approved
by the House, would be entirely salts
factory for requirements Of his office
but that naturally he wouldn't object
to a new building on Capitol Hill II
Congress wanted to provide it for his
agency, which is directly responsible
to Congress.
Chairman Buchanan, however, Is
decidedly opposed tosthe proposed new
workshop or office building on~Capito
Hill.
1.-THE House conferees are not yet
named" he said, but I feel very GER
tain that we will stand firm for the
provision as 1t passed the House-this
will give the General Accounting Of
flee adequate space; In fact, surplus
Of some 1900 feet for later expansion
Protests Crowding.
II don't believe In putting up any
buildings on Capitol Hill which will
bring thousands Of additional en-
ployes into that neighborhood. There
is little enough parking space as 1t Is
for tourists who come from all over
the country to visit their Capitol. The
Capitol Plaza has already been turned
int q big parking lot. If we allow
Thousands Of other employees to come
into the environs Of the Capitol they
will be eating their lunches on the
Capitol lawn and strewing 1t with pa.
pers and otherwise messing 1t up"
Senate conferees are expected to
oppose the plan Of remodeling 81
Representative Buchanan advocates
because District judges have for many
years sought to have Judiciary
Square kept inviolate for the District
courts, to be held for future expan-
sion requirements.