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favoring and others opposing an
additional sl,000,000 for relief.
The subcommittee is said to have
Included new provision under which
the Federal Government would bear
. definite percentage Of the cost of
maintaining the United States District
Court and the United States Court of
Appeals, based on the percentage of
purely Federal litigation as distin-
glished from local court business.
While the percentage ratio for each
oourt and other details have not
been made public, adoption Of this
principle may save the District some
Where near sl50,000 to be applied to
It's many other obligations.
Funds to start construction OF a
new bridge across the Anacostia River
Ct Pennsylvania avenue southeast. are
understood to have been included, in
place Of the $4,000 allowed by the
House to repair the old structure.
School building items were revised
To bring the amounts for colored and
white schools closer to the ratio of
"iiitC diio SolOlCd Ill VIC
public school system 1t is understood
two reductions we're made in white
school construction items in arriving
at this adjustment. During the hear
ings delegation representing various
colored organiza tionS contended that
reductions in the House gave the
colored school divisions only 1T per
cent of the construction program al
though those divisions have approx
uaately So per cent of the school
population.
Tax Boost Is Seen.
/. 1t is understood the Senate appro-
priations group did not attempt to
deal in the supply bill with the tax
problem to meet the increased outlay,
Mnce tax proposals must originate in
the House-and there were no tax
features in the appropriation bill to
open the way for Senate amendments
The House is working on separate
hll embodying series of tax proposals
designed to meet only the Districts
estimated deficit of approximately
t6,000000 created by the supply bill
6 1t passed the House
: IT, as indicated by yesterdays de-
velopments, the Senate increases the
total outlay in the supply bill, the tax
program would have to be broadened
accordingly. All Senate increases in
appropriations, however, must run the
9amut of conference with the House,
the final clue to the amount of new
1fvenue the city will have to raise.
BY the time the supply bill gets
Into conference, the separate tax pro-
Gram probably will have reached the
Senate, where it could be amended to
Balance the budget as finally worked
out in the appropriation conference
room.
Advances Sought.
: An amendment will be offered to the
appropriation bill in the Senate, how
ever, to restore to the Commissioners
the power they had for a long time
PRIOR to 1927, to obtain advances of
hlnds from the Treasury early in the
FISCAL year. to be paid back as soon as
local tax collections come in.
. CFcH IL VIC Ic" IdA DllIS are pushed
Through both houses before July /,
The beginning of the new fiscal year,
District officials realize it will take
Pine to start the wheels that will
bring In the revenue, and they are
3earful the city may find itself with
gut sufficient funds to meet current
obligations for the first few months
pnless the power to obtain temporary
Treasury advances is reinstated.
!. The fact that the Commissioners
must Ak the annual real estate tax
rate during July, to leave time for
Preparation of the tax ledgers and
bills, was cited yesterday by one Dis
trict official as reason why Congress
should agree by that time on the
amount of new revenue to be raised
from other sources.
Reorganization Opposed.
8 Although it will not be definitely
known until tomorrow what action
the Senate subcommittee took on sew
Aral House provisions seeking tc
3ransfer municipal functions from
pne Office to another, there is known
10 be feeling in the Senate group
against Incorporating such reorgani-
cation steps in an appropriation bill
Among these proposals were: Trans
Yer OF Is Fairgrounds from the Play
1Hsunds Department to the Com
nunity Center office: transfer Of the