Evening star., 1935-03-18
SENATE RECEIVES
DEFICIENCY BILL
$112,762,S70 Total Includes
Funds for Two District
School Items.

After adding $492,560 for various
Government agencies, including two
District public school items, the Sen
ate Appropriations Committee today
reported out the deficiency bill, carry
ing $112,762,870.
The two local school items are: To
equip commercial classes in the junior
and senior high schools, $4,000; to
recondition Adams Administration
Building for use as an elementary
school, $4,000.
Although the bill as reported does
not contain the $6,000,000 building
program for the Government Print
ing Office, to replace old structures,
there is still possibility this amend
ment may be offered when the bill is
taken up in the Senate.
Further Steps Await Farley.
AS a result of a brief discussion of
the Printing Office housing problem
today Senator Hayden, Democrat, of
Arizona, said he would confer with
Chairman Fletcher of the Printing
Committee and Chairman Connally
of the Public Buildings and Grounds
Committee before deciding what fur
ther steps to take regarding the build
ing amendment.
The group of old buildings at the
printing Office were described as fire
hazards and some of them as being
unsafe, in a special report submitted
to Congress recently by Public Printer
Giegengack
These buildings, some of which were
erected before the Civil War, are on
the west side of North Capitol street
between Jackson alley and H street
The public printer attached to his
report the findings of the District
Engineer Department. after an in
Spection made in January of these
several old printing office buildings.
Warns of Conditions.
Building conditions at the G. o. P.
present a situation so serious that
unless action is promptly taken to
replace antiquated and unsafe build
ings, loss of life and destruction of
millions of dollars worth of Govern
ment property may be expected" the
public printers report stated.
The public printer said this condi-
tion is Cne which has been growing
steadily worse and pointed out that
the need for replacement of the older
buildings has been referred to in the
annual report of former public
printer for a number of years.
The remedy lies in the hands
OF CongreSS-to provide authority and
funds for replacement of the Struc-
turally dangerous and highly inflam-
mable old buildings" the report con-
tlnued. The public printer called at
tention to the quick action of the
District Fire Department '"in gaining
control over two serious fires that
have started in the old buildings" in
the past.
Separate Bill Likely.
If 1t Is found that the building
item cannot be brought in connection
with the pending deficiency bill, it
probably would be introduced and
considered as separate measure.
The Senate committee added S10,-
600 to the deficiency bill to ventilate
and air-condition the rooms of the
Senate Appropriations Committee in
the Capitol. The Senate committee
also struck from the House bill a
clause which would have allowed the
Bureau of Prisons, Departr" of JUS
tice. to continue to use indefinitely an
Army building at Leavenworth. Kans.
The building is now occupied by per-
mission OF the War Department.
Of the total carried in the deficiency
bill, the greater part-approximately
S94 000-is needed by the Vet
erans' Administration to carry out the
action of the last Congress in restoring
some of the cuts which the economy
act made in veterans pensions and
compensations.
The Senate committee restored sew
eral small reductions which the House
made in budget estimates, including
$4,000 additional for beginning oper-
alton of the new national archives es-
tablishment.