Evening star., 1935-05-19
Hearings to Start Tomor.
row Before House Sub.
committee.
CANNON AND BLANT0N
EXPECTING APPROVAL
Additional Sums Required by Va
rious Institutions Due to
Increased Costs.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

Supplemental and deficiency items
of appropriation for the District gov
ernment, totaling s51s,862.15, are to
be considered during hearings on the
deficiency appropriation bill starting
tomorrow before a subcommittee COM
posed of chairmen OF other subcom-
mittees handling the various depart
mental appropriation measures. Hear
ings on the District items are ex-
pected to be reached the last OF the
week.
Chairman Cannon Of the District
subcommittee will be invited to sit
with the subcommittee as an adviser
during the hearings on the District
items. Both Chairman Cannon and
Representative Blanton, Democrat, OF
Texas. who Is also a member Of the
District Subcommittee, said last night
they are not opposed to any OF these
District items and expect to see them
promptly approved.
The District items are mostly
result of increased maintenance cost
In various institutions on account OF
increased cost of living, particularly
food and clothing. There Is de-
ficiency each year in the items for
the various hospitals and eleemosy-
nary institutions.
Alley Fund Provision.
Included with the District items Is
q provision to continue available to
the Alley Dwelling Authority the un-
expended balance Of the conversion
of inhabited alleys fund" until June
80, 1896. The act of June IL, 1884,
which created the Alley Dwelling Au-
thority, provided for the allotment Of
$500, 900 from the public works fund
This money was not set up on the
books of the Treasury until Novem-
Der, 1884, and it will not be possible
to expend it before it ceases to be
available under provisions of the ma
tional recovery act. This provision
was submitted by D. w. Bell, acting
director of the Budget Bureau and
transmitted by the President.
Z The items TO be considered include
$18,l2l 98 for refund of assessments,
Barry Farm. In establishing a rate
of assessment for laying or construct
ing water mains and service sewers
on and after July !, 1884, Congress
in the current District appropriation
| act provided that such rate of assess
| ment shall be applicable to assess
| ments for sewers and water mains
constructed and laid subsequent tc
January /, 1923, in the subdivision of
Barry Farm" The appropriation now
asked Is to make refunds to those
who have paid assessments in excess
Of $3.50 per linear foot for water
mains and service sewers.
For medical charities the items to-
tai $85,000 and include Children's
Hospital, $45,000; Central Dispensary
and Emergency Hospital, 10000, and
Eastern Dispensary and Casualty
Hospital, $4,000. For maintenance
Of the tuberculosis Hospital, $4,000
is asked; for the Children's Tubercu-
losis Sanatorium, $1,000; for Gallinger
Municipal Hospital, $4,000; for the
industrial Home School for Colored
Children, $4,000; a like amount for
the Industrial Home School; for the
Home for the Aged and Infirm, 50 900,
ana 1or reilef OF the poor, $4,000.
Needs for Workhouse.
For the workhouse and reformatory
100000 is asked for maintenance. for
the Jail, $4,000; for the board and
care of guardianship children under
the Division of Child Welfare, SO;
for the National Training School for
| Bows. 500. 600
For fuel, gas and power for the
public schools, $45,000, and for 1894,
$1l,303; for the isolating ward at
Garfield Hospital, $4,000; for the
employees compensation fund, $4,000;
for the District. Health Department,
$4,000; for the Fire Department, s4,-
600, and for the Juvenile Court, S70O.
For maintenance of the coroner S
office, $1,671.50 is proposed, for
contingent and miscellaneous judicial
expenses, $2,389.87; for general ad-
vertising, $4,010.05; for support of
convicts, SIS, ,456.64; for purchase of
an ambulance for the Board Of Public
Welfare, $500; for writs of lunacy,
$1,372.16; for education of the deaf,
dumb and blind, $500.
| For miscellaneous charities a total
! of $12,373.10 is submitted; for the
Hospital for the Insane, $4,000; for
the payment of judgments, $9,545.20.