Evening star., 1935-03-24
RESTORATION SEEN
RD.C.B|LL|TEMS
SLASHED BY HOUSE
Senate Subcommittee May
So Make Provisions for Ad-
ditionaI Funds.
CITIZENS GROUP NAMED
TO PRESENT ARGUMENTS
Plight Of City, Faced by Increas.
ing Needs, Is Viewed With
Sincere Alarm.
BY ]. A. OLEARY.

With hearings drawing to a close
early this week on the 1896 District
appropriation bill. indications last
night we're that the Senate subcom-
mittee in charge of the measure prob
ably will restore most of the Budget
Bureau items omitted by the House.
BY trimming the estimates of va
rious departments, the House took
sl,o66,000 from the budget recon-
mendations, leaving the total of the
measure at $3e 1903, ,4O4. There is also
q strong possibility the Senate will
make provision for a few additional
needs, including some increase in the
size Of the police force and increased
allowances for health needs.
Hearings will be resumed Tuesday
morning and probably will be COM
pleted Wednesday. after which the
subcommittee, presided over by Sens-
tor Thomas, Democrat. of Oklahoma,
will begin the process of deciding on
proposed changes.
Larger Lump Sum Asked.
Before the hearings close a delega-
tion from the Citizens Joint Com
mittee on Fiscal Relations between
the United States and the District oi
Columbia will make an urgent plea
for more equitable Federal payment
toward the expenses of the National
Capital.
The House left the Federal share Of
the pending bill at S5.7O0,OOO. the
same as for the current year, DESPITE
the fact that even with the cuts made
by the House, the total exceeds appro.
prlations for the current year by more
than 100000. This calculation take.
into account the cost OF the per cent
pay restoration in the District service
from April to June of the current
fiscal year.
Theodore w. Noyes, chairman o1
the Citizens Joint Committee on Fis-
cal Relations between the United
States and the District of Columbia
has appointed special committee
to represent the Joint Committee al
the Senate hearings. Edward F. Col
laday, general chairman of the joint
Committee, is chairman of the
Special Committee and will make the
presentation Of the citizens case.
Others on Committee.
James G. Yaden, president of the
Federation Of Citizens Association
Is vice chairman, and Robert J. Cot
trell is secretary. Other members OF
the Special Committee are as follows:
L. A. Carruthers, George E. Sullivan
and Jesse c. Suter, representing Fed
GRAFTON Of Citizens Associat tions: John
Locher, Frank J. Coleman and John
3. Colpoys, representing Central Labor
Union: Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley and
Mrs. Horace j. Phelps, representing
the District of Columbia Federation OF
Women'S Clubs; Mrs. Richard W.
Hogue and Mrs. S. H. Horne, repre-
senting the Voteless District of Co
1umbia League of Women Voters, and
Claude w. Owen, Edgar Morris,
Thomas P. Littlepage and B. M. Nc
Kelway, representing the Washington
Board of Trade.
AG OOAAlA1IIOCC WILL pIcSSIlG peGl-
tion signed by practically all of the
representative organizations of the
community.
The highlight of yesterdays hear
ing was a statement filed by Mrs
Ernest r. Grant, managing director OF
the District tuberculosis Association
in which she took the House appropri-
ations group to task for cutting
$4,000 from the budget estimate for
personnel and maintenance of the
Childrenis tuberculosis Sanatorium.
Why any member of the District
Appropriations Committee of the
House should feel justified in cutting
these appropriations, when no single
member Of that committee knows any
thing about tuberculosis. is beyond my
comprehension" Mrs. Grants state
ment declared.
New Deal Held Needed.
IF the District of Columbia is to
nave . new deal in health, it seems
TO me that the first step in that di-
rection is new deal in the personnel
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