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commended $10e, $50, which Is $2s, ,920
more than the 1895 appropriation and
$4,000 less than the budget figure.
The increase over the current ap-
preparation is due to the fact that
personnel for the new wings to this
institution will be on full-year basis
during the next fiscal year. Because
testimony indicates that the tnstitu-
ton will not be operated at capacity
during the next fiscal year, the COM
mittee has disallowed five minor
domestic attendants at $1,000 each.
The following new employees have also
been disallowed: One property clerk
at 1890; one carpenter at $1,680 and
one mechanic at $500. The COM
mittee has also eliminated from the
estimates q legislative provision per-
naitting the admission Of pay patients
to this sanatorium."
Gallinger Demands Met.
To meet increased demands at GAL
linger Municipal Hospital the commit
tee allowed IL additional nurses and
2 additional domestic attendants, but
reduced the budget approved today for
the institution by 5000. The dis
allowance Of the 5000 Is due to the
following recommendations Of the
committee:
Salary Of the superintendent at
$6, 500 instead of $500, elimination of
q social worker at 81, 800 and elimina-
ton Of q junior clerk at $1,440.
The committee, however, did ap-
prove an increase of $4,000 allowed
by the Budget Bureau over the 1886
appropriation for maintenance in rec
ignition Of an increase in the num-
Der Of patients at the hospital.
The Budget Bureau allowance of
81 ,656, 200 for emergency relief, which
the committee describes as public as
sistance," was cut $150,180. This re-
duction," the committee said, has
been applied entirely to the appropria-
ton for personal services, which, the
committee believes, has grown out of
reasonable proportion to the total ap-
preparation. The sum recommended
will not decrease the amount avail
able for direct relief"
The report on the bill, incidentally,
includes table showing that the Dis
trict received for various forms of re-
lief from F. E. r. A. in the fiscal years
1888, 1884, 1885 and 1886, as we'll as
appropriations for that purpose in that
period totaled $33 1863, ,804.
A reduction of $5,525 was made in
the budget-approved item for old-age
pensions. but the committee explained
the cut in no way would alter the
amount available for relief funds,
since it could apply only to elimina-
ton of three social workers and two
underclerk typists.
$4,000 for Pensions to Blind.
Another item in the bill provides
$4,000 to pay pensions to the needy
blind
Budget-approved items for the Dis
trict National Guard and the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission were not changed by the
committee, but it did reduce the item
for water service by $4,000. The
committee estimated that there would
be surplus of s539, 900 in the water
fund at the close of the coming fiscal
year.
One new item was inserted in the
water estimates, however. 1t will pro-
vide for 30-inch main from Third
and E streets southwest to Fifth and
M streets southeast. The reduction
made by the committee will prevent
the erection Of storage tank in Fort
Dupont Park. The committee said 1t
had been advised there is considerable
doubt whether residents in that area
approve construction of tank of that
type.