Evening star., 1936-06-10
PRESIDENTS HELP
ALSO IS SOUGHT TO
BREAK DEADLOCK
Federation Drafts Petition
and Lists Items I'M
periIed.
SENATE PLAN REJECTED
BY HOUSE CONFEREES
Thomas Cites Need for Interven-
tion by Roosevelt to
Protect City.

Fighting desperately to stave off
failure of the 1887 District appropria-
tion bill. spokesmen for the disfran-
ehised residents of Washington pre-
pared today to file a plea with each
member of Congress to end the dis
agreement between the House and
Senate conferees.
President Roosevelt. Vice President
Garner and Speaker Bankhead will be
asked to use their influence to pre-
vent substitution of mere mainte-
nance funds, under continuing reSo-
luton. for the appropriat ation bill.
Officals of the Federation of Citi-
Eens' Associations, meeting late yes
terdsy to draft petition to conform
to action taken at the federation
meeting Saturday night made a list
of items totaling nearly $7.000,000
which will fail if the regular bill is
lost.
Concurrently. Senator Thomas,
Democrat. of Oklahoma. chairman of
the Senate Conference Committee,
expressed the belief that the Presi-
dent may intervene to save the ap-
preparations bill.
Need of Funds Emphasized.
THE administration has got to take
o hand. Washington is the Federal
city and must have funds to operate, "
he emphasized.
Hopes for passage of the measure
received jolt earlier in the day
when the House and Senate confer
ees signed a resolution of disagree
ment. There can be no further ac-
ton until Monday, when the House
and Senate reconvene.
The disagreement resolution was
signed when House managers ada
nantly refused to yield on their de-
mand that the Federal payment for
next year be no higher than $2,700,-
900. The Budget Bureau. the Presi-
dent and the Senate had recon-
mended a continuation Of the Federal
payment at $5,700,000.
The federation plea was drafted
by President Thomas E. Lodge, L. A.
Carruthers, Harry N. Stull, Mrs.
George Corbin, former President
James G. Yaden and M. M. Mclean,
representing the Fiscal Relations and
Executive Committees.
While placing special emphasis on
the damage that will be done to
the District if the regular bill fails,
the federation holds that the Federal
payment should be not less than
S5,70O,O0O.
Importance Is Stressed.
The draft declared passage of the
bill to be of "the greatest importance"
"As representatives of the organized
citizens bodies of the District, we view
with alarm any prospect of the failure
by Congress to pass this appropriation
measure at his session" the federation
declared.
We understand that any contin-
uing resolution which might be passed
in lieu of the pending bill would be
most disastrous in many ways through
the elimination of all capital expen-
ditures and necessary expansions"
Among items listed by the feder-
were new school building construction
costing $1,650,500; street paving and
other works, including construction
OF a new Chain Bridge, to be paid out
Of the gasoline tax funds, costing in
all $1,110,000; and construction of
q new Police Court Building to cost
$l.000,00O.
Failure of these and other large
items would mean loss Of hundreds
Of jobs which would be available if
the regular bill was passed. Pay raises
and promotions also would be halted
Other Items Are Cited.
Other capital items which would
be eliminated are: Petworth Branch
Library, $4,000; purchase and in
stallation of traffic lights, $4,000;
paving of alleys and sidewalks, $780,
000;. reconstruction of a pier at the
fish wharf and market, $4,000; con-
struction of sewers, $425,000; purchase
Of furniture and equipment for new
school buildings and other plants,
$ls3, 900; purchase of new fire fighting
apparatus, $92 900; construction of
needed new buildings at the District
Workhouse and Reformatory, $685.
tases at the National Training School
for Girls, 100000; furniture and
equipment for the adult tuberculosis
hospital at Glenn Dale, Md, $50, 900;
continued development of Anacostia
River nats, $4,000; construction of
water mains, 1851 900.
= The District also would be delayed
L.
Government of $l,O0O.000 under the
p. w. A. loans and 100000 for park
development under the Capper- Cram
ton act.
A continuing resolution would
provide about $35,0O0,000 for the
District in the coming fiscal year, or
about $8,000,000 less than carried in
the bill that has passed both the
House and Senate.
Senator Thomas plans to introduce
Q continuing resolution Monday, but
pointed out il would be most unfor-
tunate" to force the District to operate
under its provisions. The only alter
native, he said, would be to submit
to the dictatorship" of Representa-
tive Blanton, Democrat of Texas,
acting chairman of the House Con-
ference Committee.
Resolution Introduced.
Blanton already has introduced
so-called continuing" resolution in
the House which goes a step further
than the one Senator Thomas proposes
to introduce in the Senate. 1t specifi-
cally forbids any payment by the Fed