Evening star., 1935-01-16
D. c. BILL REPORTED
$39,3O8,4O4 TOTAL
Supply Measure Based on
$3.50 Tax-FederaI
Pay $5,700,000.
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from proposed duulI1oiidl pciSOilIicl
and maintenance items. Other well
fare cuts were: Jail ST 500: Childrens
Hospital, $6,500; Emergency Hospital,
$4,000; Home for the Aged and In
firm, $2C0.
Other Leading Features.
Other outstanding features of the
bill as reported to the House are:
Authority for the Public Utilities
Commission to require all Washing
ton taxicab operators to use uniform
rates and uniform zones.
A complete ban against free tuition
for nonresident pupils in the public
schools.
Elimination of all funds for con-
tinuation of the character education
experiment in the public schools.
Rejection of requests for any in
crease in the Police Department.
Continuation of the 25 per cent cut
in water rates and an increase in the
metered allowance.
Provision of 100000 for continuing
construction of the walled group" of
buildings at the District reformatory
at Lorton, Va, held to be badly needed
for safe keeping of dangerous prison.
erS.
Construction of four school-building
projects, notably the addition of the
senior high wings at the Anacostia
Junior High School.
Provision of one additional parole
officer and one additional clerk for the
Parole Board.
A District appropriation of $2,000,-
00U for emergency relief purposes, the
remainder expected to come from the
Federal Government.
Provision of 100000 for starting
construction of the Michigan avenue
viaduct and SITS, 900 for widening and
strengthening of the Benning road
viaduct.
Bridge and Viaduct.
Disapproval of the budget estimate
of $4,000 for study of plans for a
new Pennsylvania avenue bridge over
Anacostia River and disapproval of
100000 for construction of Frank
lin street viaduct over the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad.
DiSapproval of any sums for res
toration to full service of the hundreds
of street lights which we're either
dimmed or cut of last July / in an
economy move.
Addition of four new employees for
the Public Utilities Commission as rec
commended by the Budget Bureau.
For the Free Public Library the
Budget recommendation of S448190.
Or S70,765 less than the current ap-
preparation, the principal new provi-
sion being sum for stocking the new
Georgetown Branch.
A new provision for repayment of
$1,000000 on the P. w. A. loans for
tuberculosis Hospital and sewer plant
construction and 100000 for repay
ment under the Capper- -Cramton park
development law. The House Commit
tee approved suggestion of District
officials that the bill be reworded to
require that no more be set aside
each year than is actually needed for
repayment of P. w. A. advances. The
original P. w. A. loan law provided
that 10 cents of the tax collected on
every 500 of assessed value be ear
marked for repayment of the loans
In operation this would mean the
setting aside of about $4,000 an
nually.
Would End Confusion.
The new provision which requires
the utilities commission to fix uni
form rates and zones for all Wash
ington taxicabs is designed to elm
mate the present confusion which re-
suits from the varied systems laid
down by existing companies.
"As result of this lack of uni
formity," the committee argued, "tax-
icab users cannot be advised in ad-
vance of what the charge for certain
trip will be. The establishment of
uniform rates and zones applicable to
all cabs will eliminate this condition,
and in the end, the committee be-
1ieves, will be of benefit to the opera
tors and the public"
This move to end lack of uniformity
was suggested at the committee hear
ings on the bill by Richmond B. Keech,
vice chairman of the commission. He
emphasized that the present law forbids
enforcement of the commissions U-
der for metering of the cabs, while
court decision characterized zone oper-
alton as discriminatory. The House
Committee was convinced the new
procedure might serve to straighten
out the whole tangle.
In explaining why it inserted Ian
guage which would prohibit free in
struction Of nonresident pupils in
the public schools, the committee
stated:
Data presented by the school au-
thorities show that the number of
nonresident pupils enrolled as of Oc-
tober II, 1884, amounted to 2,470. A
very small number Of these children
are now paying tuition. If the entire
2,470 pupils were required to pay, it
would amount to approximately $780,
O00 The committee believes that these
children should be required to pay tut
tion and that their exemption places
an additional tax burden upon the
tax payers of the District which they
should not be called upon to carry.
The provision as recommended does
not apply to children enrolled in the
schools of the District on the date of
the approval of the act. In line with
this provision, the committee has
eliminated from the bill a paragraph
formerly included, which permitted
children of persons in the service of
the United States, stationed outside
the District, to be admitted without
payment of tuition
Character Fund Reductions.
The committees recommendation,
eliminating all funds for the contin-
uation of character education in the
schools, included these reductions:
For salaries of the assistant superin-
tendent in charge of this program,
$4,000; for expenses and salaries of
educational consultants, SIS 900; for the
salaries of IA clerks, 500, $40, and for
the salaries of % research assistants
and two teachers assigned to hight
schools, $56,900; equipment and sup
plies for night schools, 81 1000, making
q total of $87,540.
Chairman Cannon of the subcom-
mittee in charge of the bill said that