Evening star., 1939-04-09
Bo|Ies Favors Tax
On Federal Properly
In District
Speed in Passing D. c.
Bill Hit in Talk to
Women's City Club

Representative Stephen Bolles of
Wisconsin recommended that the
Federal Government be required to
pay tax on its property in the Dis
trict, based on the same rate that
private property is taxed, in an ad-
dress yesterday before the civics Sec
ton of the Women's City Club at
the clubhouse.
Federal property should be as
sessed, he declared. the assessment
taking into consideration its uses
and value. A just taxation, he
added, is measured by the needs OF
the community.
Representative Bolles, who is a
member of the House District Com
mittee, spoke as substitute for
Representative Jennings Randolph,
chairman of the District Committee
who was unable to be present.
Discussing the 1910 District ap-
preparation bill passed by the House
Thursday afternoon, he was sharply
critical of the fact that, as a men,
ber of the District Committee, he was
unable to get copy of the appri-
priation bill at noon Thursday, de-
claring that copies were not avail
able. He further criticized the speed
with which the measure was passed.
Advocates Milk Price Cut.
Representative Bolles also refer
red to the methods used here for
the care of woman prisoners" as a
disgrace to the District; said he
saw no reason why residents of the
District should pay IA cents a quart
for milk, and declared that even
with the addition of 81 nurses to
the staff at Gallinger Hospital, pro-
vided under the House appropriation
bill the question at Gallinger" is
not yet solved.
There is need here. he said, for
an arrangement between the hos
pitals whereby patients could be
sent to other institutions when Gal
linger is crowded.
The speaker also charged a hodge
podge" government in the District
declaring that residents must have
suffrage IF you are ever going to dig
yourself out of the hole you're in
I'VE should either make it a Federal
Government reservation-like an
Indian reservation-or a peoples
city," he asserted.
Representative Bolles' address fol-
lowed remarks by Mrs. Harvey w.
Wiley, civics chairman of the Wom-
ems City Club. on the appropriation
bill.
Commenting on the ''trifling sum-
in the measure for the Women's
Police Bureau, Mrs. Wiley pointed
out that the Women's City Club is
on record for a new building for
the bureau. The present appropria-
ton is $4,000 for repairs and i'm
provements, she said, whereas the
club has urged appropriations for a
site and for a house of detention
as well as money for plans and
specifications for building near the
Police Court.
Library Unit Funds Hailed.
She also described the appropria-
ton for the erection of a new build
ing for precinct No. as unsatisfac-
tory.
She expressed satisfaction that the
House bill provides money for the
construction of the first unit for q
new library building and praised
the provision for additions of Is
privates and a new captain to the
Police Department, as well as an in
crease in the staff at Gallinger Hos
pital.
After Mrs. Wiley had pointed out
that the new appropriations bill pro-
vides funds for the purchase of land
in Prince Georges County, Md, as
a site for the National Training
School for Girls and $4,000 for the
drawing up of plans and specifica-
tions for a new building, the section
voted to recommend to the club that
it oppose drafting Of . permanent
plan for q new National Training
School at this time.