Evening star., 1935-04-03

committee added $107,741, including:
For the new truck house on Rhode
Island avenue northeast near Four
teenth street. $77,241; for two new
hose wagons. $4,000, and for pur-
chase of hose. $14.500.
Health Department., increases as
follows: Personal services, $61 ,240:
preventing contagious diseases, So 500;
maintenance Of a dispensary. $23. 1913,
and hygiene and sanitation in public
schools, 32,480. Total, $l20,863.
Under the Board of Public Welfare
the Senate group added the following
sums: Welfare Board, salaries, 1850;
maintenance at the jail, $500; per-
Sonal services and maintenance at the
work house and reformatory, s27.760.
Children's Hospital. 10000. Ener-
gency Hospital, $1,000. Children's
tuberculosis Sanatorium. s67 400 for
maintenance and equipment. At GAL
linger Hospital, for personal services,
$163,542: for maintenance. $4,000;
for repairs, $500, and for purchase
of motor truck. $1,000. At the Flor
ence Crittenton Home. $500. In all,
$3.50, ,042 for welfare.
New Office Discussed.
During the Senate hearings. it be-
came known today, the Senators dis
cussed plan to create a new office
of general superintendent OF hospitals,
with indications that DR.. Edgar A.
Bocock, superintendent of Gallinger,
would be given this rank and a new
superintendent selected for Gallinger.
The text of the bill does not indicate
whether this plan is to be carried out.
In the Water Department the larg-
est increase was s120.250. for laying
main from Eleventh and Kenyon
streets to seventeenth and Taylor
streets.
An important Senate amendment
which does not figure in the increased
total of the bill, makes available an
unexpended balance of prior appro-
priation of Sl50,O00 to continue the
reclamation and development of Ana
costa Park.
The Senate allowed the Public
Utilities Commission an increase of
$25, 900 for personnel. Last year the
commission was handicapped by re-
duction in its force, insisted on by
the House.
The Senate also allowed the re-
corder of deeds Office an increase of
$4,000, including eight additional
clerks and other expenses.
Printing Ban Removed.
The Senate committee struck from
the bill House provision which would
have prevented the District from
using printing apparatus acquired
only recently by requiring all work to
be done at the Government Printing
Office.
The committee explained in its re-
port that the new Federal contribu-
ton of S8,317,500 represents the aver
age of the various Federal payments
that have been made during the past
10 years that the lump-sum practice
has been in effect.
Other small increases we're allowed
| as follows:
Plumbing inspection, $4,000; Alco-
holic Beverage Control Board, for
printing liquor stamps, s2,500; office
of weights and measures, $1,000, for
four more inspectors and $500 to buy
samples; municipal architects Office,
$1,000; Insurance Department, $4,000:
travelling expenses and equipment for
the Health Department, $4,000; post
age. $2500; employment service,
S4,640; collection of garbage, $13, SOB,
and Electrical Department, $4,000.
Small increases were allowed the
courts for compensation of jurors and
for printing.
House Rider Unchanged.
The additional funds necessary to
carry out the plan of creating a gen.
eral superintendent of District hos
pitals are in the bill
The Senate committee made no
change in the House rider to the
public utilities appropriation. con-
tinuing the ban against requiring
meters on taxicabs, but allowing the
commission to establish a uniform
zone rate.
During the hearings, there was some
discussion among the Senators as to
the possibility of writing into the ap-
preparation bill a new proviso that
would seek to make taxicab liability
insurance compulsory, but no action
along this line was taken by the
committee.