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fund Obligations will total SAL
457, $3.50. The difference between
these two figures would leave a
deficit of $3,745,83O, but nowhere
in the lengthy tabulations does
the bureau distinguish between
this deficit and the $3,304,870
which the bureau, in its general
statements, says will occur.
PARED ESTIMATES
When the various departmental
heads of the local government
submitted their estimates of oper-
alton expenses last summer, the
total approximated $50, 900.
Immediately business and civic
organizations set up a howl and
insisted the estimates be slashed
so that the budget would not ex-
ceed $5O,O00,000. The Commis-
sioners, acceding to this demand,
pared the estimates to- $48,48 j.
937, and forwarded the recommen-
dations to the Budget Bureau.
Although the boosted real es-
tate tax rate of SITS per $100 Of
valuation expires this coming
June 80 by law, it is expected the
rate will be continued during the
1910 fiscal year. The former tax
rate was $3.50 per 500.
Items of Capital improvements
incorporated in the budget
amounted to $3,900,O0O, which
compares with a total of $4,700,-
900 in the current appropriations.
POLICE NEEDS
Slashes in estimates occurred
virtually all along the line of the
municipal departments.
The Police Department, which for
years has been seeking 100 or
more additional men, was, in ef-
feet, told to get along as best it
could with its present force and
equipment.
The school system sought in the
neighborhood of 18 million dollars
for the 1910 fiscal year. The Com
missioners cut this to $13,179, 900.
The Budget Bureau slashed it to
$13,177,730, but at that it was
$423, 900 more than the sistem re-
received in the current appropria-
ton.
HIGHWAY FUND
The Highway Fund will wind up
with a surplus of $135. .528, the bu-
reau reported, after financing a
program of IS, ,108,260 for the 1910
year.
The Water Department surplus
will total $128,838, after $2,489, $40
is expended on it's 1910 program.
The District Commissioners, af.
ter considerable slaShing of Board
of Public Welfare estimates of ex.
pense, sought to expend in the
neighborhood of $5,800,OOO on vel.
fare activities. The Budget Blu.
reau recommended $5,468,620 be
allowed.
HEALTH SLASH
Despite the interest taken by
President Roosevelt in behalf
of improved health conditions OF
the Capital, the Health Depart
ment was forced to take slash OF
SAC, 1858 under current appropria
tionS IT WAS granted q budget
of $2,359,544.
In totaling the 1910 budget, the
Federal bureau added to the usual
trust funds, deficiencies and sim
liar charges, items Of loans and
grants from various emergency
agencies of the Federal Govern
ment for such things as roads
social security, veneral disease con
troll, which brought the total OBJ
legation for all accounts" to $5l,
562,121.
PWA LOAN-GRANT
This was compared with tht
current appropriation Of $40, ,122,
121, which not an official of tbs
local government, business or civic
leader knew until today to be thu
amount of the 1899 budget"
The difference between thi!
enormous figure and the actua
$48, 1865 ,052 budget was represented
mainly by the $18, 8,150.0O0 allotted
by the PWA for the local building
program on 4 Ioan.arant basis,