Evening star., 1940-05-15
Senate Passes
$49,697,S90
D. {. Supply Bill
Measure Now Goes
Conference
With House

The Senate today passed and sent
to conference with the House the
1941 District appropriation bill pro-
Wding $40 ,697 800 to support the
municipal government in the new
fiscal year beginning July /.
The total appropriation is $1,406,-
173 more than approved by the
House. but assurance had previously
been given the Senate Appropriate
tions Committee by Maj. Daniel j.
Donovan, auditor and budget officer.
that the increase would not put the
District government In the red in
the coming fiscal year nor would 1t
necessitate an increase in the pres
ent SITS real estate tax rate.
It took the Senate just II minutes
to put stamp Of approval on the
93-page bill. Only two changes
were made in the measure as it
came out of the Appropriations
Committee last week.
One would take out Of the street
repair fund $4,000 to finance q
study and preparation of plans for
construction Of a traffic underpass
at Scott Circle-an item which the
House removed from the bill in its
original form. The other, recon-
mended by Senator Capper, Repub-
ican, Of Kansas, provides $3.50 for
teaching public school children the
evils Of narcotics and alcoholic bev.
erages.
Senate Names COnferees.
After passing the bill the Senate
named as its conferees Senators
Overton Of Louisiana, Glass Of Vir-
ginia, Thomas Of Oklahoma, Burke
Of Nebraska and King of Utah,
Democrats, and Nye of North Da-
kota and Bridges of New Hamp.
shire, Republicans
In its present form the bill is
far more liberal than it was March
20, when it passed the House. The
changes and additions made by the
Senate Subcommittee on Appropria-
tions and subsequently approved by
both the full committee and the
Senate provide for more generous
treatment of the public schools, and
particularly those municipal
agencies that deal with the Door,
the sick and the INDECENT.
The revised bill, for instance,
carries an additional 1908 $50 for the
public schools. This money, the
Senate decreed, shall be used for
purchase Of three sites and the
preparation Of plans for three new
buildings that will permit the con-
solidstion Of nine elementary
schools.
The new school program contem-
plates the combination Of the
Cranch, Tyler and Van Ness
Schools; the Moore and Twinins
Schools, and the Brent, Dent, Lenox
and French Schools.
The Senate also removed from the
bill House provision that would
have forced all nonresident pupils
in the public schools to pay tuition
and approved an item of $50, 900 for
preparation of plans for q new
building to replace the Wilson
Teachers College. The new teach
ers' college, the Senate said, should
be erected on District-own prop
erty at Thirteenth and Upshur
streets NV, on a site the House
had picked for the new Abbott Vo-
cational School. The Senate, how
ever, directed that the vocational
school be erected in Brentwood
Park.
To the appropriations approved by
the House for Gallinger Hospital
the Senate added $39 $50 to provide
"a additional employees, 10 nurses, 10
attendants and 4 laboratory tech
nicians. As q substitute for the
House plan to segregate delinquent
from non-delinquent children in the
Children's Receiving Home by plac-
ing the non-delinquents in foster
homes, the Senate added $3.675 to
the bill to begin construction Of q
new receiving home on land owned
by the District, fixing the limit of
cost at $4,000.
Is More Police Approved.
The Senate without hesitation
approved recommendation Of the
Appropriations Committee to give
Police Supt Ernest w. Brown Is
more men to combat crime In the
District, and added funds to q num-
Der Of other House-approved items.
The additions include:
An increase of $3O, 100 in the ap-
preparation for the Health Depart
ment to provide eight additional
general public health nurses and to
equip two dental clinics and employ
two dentists and one assistant in
the Southwest Public Health Center.
An appropriation of $4500 for in
stallation Of an elevator in the
Southwest Public Health Center and
one in the Children's Building at
Gallinger Hospital.
An increase of 5000 for old-age
assistance to allow an increase from
$50 to $40 a month in pensions for
the needy blind.
An increase from $4,000 to $22,-
400 for education Of handicapped
children, with q stipulation that the
teachers shall be drawn from the
personnel Of the public schools.
Cupt. Warner to Head
Navel n:s-A..-.n L.