Evening star., 1936-06-11
APPEAL TO SAVE
LOCAL BILL MAY
co TO PRESIDENT
Commissioners to Survey
Gripping Effect Of Con-
tinuing Act.
DEADLOCK IMPERILS
SANATORIUM OPENING
Operation of New Sewage Dis
posal Plant Also Is Made
Uncertain.

Alarmed over the increasing pros
poets of failure of the 1887 District
appropriation bill, on which House
and Senate conferees have signed dis
agreement, the Commissioners to-
morrow may decide on personal ap-
peal to President Roosevelt to end
the impasse.
They will survey effects of the Sug-
gested passage of continuing reso-
luton which would place the District
on a bare subsistence basis and Grip
pie many services.
They will have at hand data COM
piled by the District budget officer
Mai. Daniel J. Donovan, showing not
only the new capital improvements
which would be lost, but also eSti-
mates of limitation of operations now
conducted.
Capital improvements to the extent
of nearly S7OO0,ooO are involved
School building expansion would be
one of the greatest losses.
Uncertainty on Personnel.
There is uncertainty, however, as
to the extent of personnel losses. Maj
Donovan said there would be many
ifs" tied up in the wording of the
proposed continuing resolutions.
Involved in the situation, officials
said, were questions as to whether the
District would be able to open the new
adult tuberculosis sanitorium being
constructed at Glenn Dale, Md.
Another question was whether the
District would be able to place in use
its sewer disposal plant being COM
pleted at Blue Plains. D. c., under a
loan obtained from the Public Works
Administration. Whether it would
be necessary to limit old age and
blind pensions and other aspects of
the social security program was an
other question.
THE situation is extremely seri-
Gus said Commissioner HaZen. "The
Commissioners will take no action
until Monday (when Engineer Com
missioner Dan I. Sultan will return
to his desk) but we will consider a
course of action tomorrow when the
whole situation will be reviewed"
IFS" Are Extensive.
The extent of the ''ifs" involved in
a continuing resolution is seen in the
fact that deficiency appropriations
amounting to $671,000 have been
provided for operations this year, in
addition to the regular 1886 District
appropriation. Whether operations
and jobs provided under these def
cheney items could be carried for
ward under continuing resolution
would have to be decided.
The following items in addition to
the new improvement projects, which
may be lost if the regular bill fails,
were cited for attention by the Com
missioners:
Increases for school, in addition to
the building items, S323,0O0; Police
Department, $123,615; Health De-
partment, $81,770; old age aid, 1884,
600; unemployment compensation,
$125,0o0; aid for the needy blind,
$4,000; smoke control, $4,000;
operation of the sewage disposal
plant, $4,000; Gallinger Hospital,
$4,000; for the District tuberculosis
sanitoria at Glenn Dale, Md, 1922, 900.
It was found that the Fire Depart
ment would have to drop 10 men,
that the Health Department may
have to drop 20 nurses from its Pub
lie Health Nursing Bureau, expanded
in the past year under the deficiency
appropriation; the Health Depart
ment tuberculosis director and four
school medical inspectors.