Evening star., 1936-12-27
FISCAL
REPORT IS READY
FOR PRESIDENT
recommendations of Com.
mittee Are Being Guarded
With Utmost Secrecy.
MORE EQUITABLE SHARE
FOR DISTRICT is HOPE
Findings Destined to Play Major
Role in Hearings on 1888
Supply Bill.

The long-awaited report of Presi.
dent RooSevelt's special Fiscal Rela.
tions Investigating Committee, carry
ing Washington's hope of a fair and
equitable basis for determination of
the amount Of the Federal payment
toward District expenses, is expected
to go to the White House before the
end of the week.
J. L. Jacobs, Chicago efficiency en-.
gineer and tax expert, directing the
study, who went home for the Christ.
mas holidays, will return tomorrow to
apply nnlshing touches to the report.
according to present indications, it
Will be document of several volumes.
Tne conclusions and recommenda.
tions Of the committee are being
guarded with utmost secrecy, and will
not be made public until the Presi.
dent transmits the 1898 District
budget estimates to Congress early
next month.
Figure Included In Budget.
The amount of the Federal nav.
ment recommended by the COMMITTEES
Is 10 be included in the new budget.
The Commissioners, at the direction
OF the Budget Bureau, predicated the
1888 estimates on a SIS, ,0OO. 600 Federal
payment. the same amount as appro-
priated for the current fiscal wear.
This figure is to be changed, however.
10 coincide with the recommendations
OF the Fiscal Relations COMMITTEES
before the budget goes to Congress.
The committees findings are des,
tined to play major role in the hear.
mgs on the 1888 District supply bin
before the House Subcommittee on
Appropriations. These findings are ex.
pected to be accepted by the subcom.
mlttee as well as the House providing
they bear the Presidents stamp of
approval.
Hearings on the appropriation bill
are expected to be started later than
usual because of the present unorpan.
ized status of the subcommittee which
VIII write the bill. Attaches of the
Appropriations Committee believe IL
VIII ne February before work is started
on the bill.
Old Committee Wrecked.
Inc 1886 elections and death yirtu.
ally wrecked the old subcommittee
tne one which wrote both the 1885
ano 1887 supply bills. There are onlv
TWO members of this subcommittee
available for service in Connection
with the 1888 bill-Representatiye.
Johnson, Democrat. of West Virginia.
ana Otter. Republican, of PennsvI.
vania.
Existing vacancies caused bv tn.
defeat of Representative Blanton
democrat, of Texas, and the death of
representative Jacobsen, Democrat.
OF Iowa, cannot be filled until the
Rouse Is organized for the new session.
since johnson and Otter, as well a.
the new appointees on the subcommit.
zee probably will be assigned to other
suocommittees, the District bill prob.
ably will be sidetracked until some Of
the larger supply bills are out Of
the way.
johnson, by virtue of his seniority
on the District Subcommittee, is ex.
pected to be selected as chairmsn.
There has been no intimation as to
VINO may be named to replace Blan.
ton and Jacobsen.
Representative Norton. Democrat, of
New Jersey, chairman of the District
Legislative Committee of the House.
planned to appeal to Speaker Bank.
mead to permit member of her group
to sit with the Appropriations SUBJ
committee during hearings on the 1888
bill and advise the new members of
the needs and problems of the District.
Bankhead. however, already has
frowned on the idea. He said he
foresaw serious danger in an inter-
mingling of Appropriations and Legis.
lative Committees.