Evening star., 1938-05-28
DEFICIENCY SUM
HEARINGS ENDED
BY HOUSE GROUP
Subcommittee May Omit
Money for Jefferson
Memorial Work.
MEETING WEDNESDAY
WILL DRAFT MEASURE
Boylan Asks Approval of Item.
Several Protest Letters
Heard at Session.

Hearings were concluded yesterday
before the House Deficiency Subcom-
mittee on Appropriations on the pro-
posals for s500,000 to start work on
the S3,OOO,OO0 Thomas Jefferson Me-
mortal and on Budget Bureau recon-
mendations regarding the care of in
mates committed by the courts to the
National Training School for Girls,
which is to be closed July l. The sub
committee will meet in executive ses-
zion Wednesday to draft the bill which
is expected to carry most of the $685.
1878 asked for the District, exclusive
of the Training School
The committee seems disposed TO
omit the Jefferson Memorial item, al
though Chairman Boylan Of the Me-
mortal Commission insists it has the
support of the President. The Ap-
preparations Committee included this
item last year and it was eliminated
in the House.
Mr. Boylan at a hearing yesterday
morning asked the subcommittee, OF
which Representative Woodrum of
Virginia is acting chairman, to ap-
prove the item. He was accompanied
by the architect of the commissions
selected design for the memorial, Sen
ators Lonergan of Connecticut and
Thomas of Utah and Representative
Smith of Virginia. Mr.. Boylan. who
is member of the subcommittee, and
who has been ill for several months,
left Immediately for his home in New
York.
Letter of Protest.
The opposition was heard at an aft
ernoon session. The subcommittee had :.
letters of protest from the Commission
of Fine Arts. a telegram from the
noted landscape architect, Frederick
Law Omstead.; letter from the Gar
den Clubs of America and the report
from the Library Committee on a new
bill to abolish the Jefferson Memorial
Commission and set up new COM
mission of Government experts.
Members of the subcommittee also
heard personal plea from Chairman
Keller of the Library Committee, who
asked for delay in appropriating funds
to start the memorial until efforts
had been made to get design which
would better please the Commission
Of Fine Arts and the American peo-
Pile He showed parallel pictures of
the proposed design and the central
nf f1n ArfC ota<s l,1,
the late Andrew W. Mellon and now
being erected. which showed great
similarity. Chairman Taylor declared
emphatically that the monumental
center of both structures should not he
SO much alike.
Social Agencies Heard.
Representatives of social agencies,
the Voteless District of Columbia
League of Women Voters. Mrs. Eugene
Meyer, the Citizens Committee on
Unemployment Relief, the Monday
Evening Club. the District of Columbia
Industrial Union Council and colored
pastors appealed to the subcommittee
to make proper provision that some
60 colored girls now in the Industrial
Home. most of whom are diseased,
should not be released Discussion in
dicated that temporary housing may
be provided for most of these girls at
Blue Plains and that eventually a
plan will be worked out for outdoor
employment for them along lines ad-
vocated by Mrs Roosevelt
Other important District items in
the deficiency bill are Sll8.700 for ad-
ditional expenses under the new reve-
nue. bill setting up the tax board and
for collection of beer and business.
privilege taxes: S1l5,000 for care of
District patients at st. Elizabeths
Hospital: $4,000 for an investigation
of the District tax structure; an addi-
tional $4,000 for further study of the
relief needs: Sl54720 for construction
of building and equipment for the
Traffic Department to administer the
new law requiring annual inspection
of motor vehicles and providing funds
for the sponsors contribution to pre-
vent stoppage of the P w. A. project
employing some 1000 women.
There have been vigorous protests
against diverting for this purpose any
of the 100000 carried in the District
appropriation bill for relief purposes.