Evening star., 1947-07-22
By Don S. Warren

The House today gave its
unanimous approval to the con-
ference report on the District
appropriation bill for this fiscal
year, which calls for an outlay
of sos 5,504,737.
The Senate is expected to ratify
the agreement later today and to
send the record-breaking city supply
bill to the White House for sigma
ture. House and Senate managers
on the bill arrived at an unanimous
agreement late yesterday, settling
a difference of nearly $1,000, 600
between the bills as Originally passed
by the two chambers.
The House action today required
less than five minutes after it was
called up by Chairman Horan OF the
District Subcommittee Of the House
Appropriations Committee. There
was no debate, the time being oc-
cupied by the necessary reading OF
amendments.
The conferees who reached an
agreement at one sitting late yester-
day roughly divided the $685., ,806
difference between the original House
and Senate figures. They agreed
to add $751;, ,233 to the Senate total
and to eliminate $425,573 from the
House provisions.
Some Savings Required.
The bill is liberalized in some re-
spects from the terms of both the
House and Senate versions, but some
divisions are required to make saw
ings not originally anticipated.
One section of the report OF the
conferees, for instance, anticipates
that the welfare division will achieve
saving of $4,000 by the end OF
this fiscal year in public assistance
and other services.
Both houses had approved an
oulay of s3,110, 400 for these purposes,
as part of the welfare budget, but
the conference called for a $4,000
saving since House proposals for re-
organization of the relief setup were
dropped from >LI16 OH.
Again, while the bill carries funds
for both the city-wide tuberculosis
survey and the cancer control pro-
gram, officials said the Health De-
partment would have to make a
large administrative saving.
$4,000 Cut Restored.
The conferees raised the operat-
ing fund Of the Health Department
to $2,042, 900 restoring $4,000 cut
made by the Senate. But officials
said the department still would have
to absorb the $4,000 cost of the
housekeeping aid program. Also
they said, it would have to absorb
the $4,000 cost Of remodeling the
old Gales School into a clinic, if
this project is carried on this year
Recommendations of the conferees
call for:
1. Restoration of the $9,377 salary
for the Peoples Counsel, which had
been eliminated by the House. An
item of $2,423 for the pay Of his sec
retary, however, was dropped. If he
keeps his secretary, her pay will
have to be transferred from the Pub
lie Utilities Commission or some
other District agency.
Day Care Centers.
2. Liberalization of the rules OF
admission to the child day-care CEN
ters, for which both the House and
Senate have agreed on an outlay OF
s150.000. The House had banned use
of the centers by children Of parents
having incomes of more than $2,-
600. The conferees raised the ceiling
to $4,000.
3. Revision of the big school ex-
pansion program only by the elm
nation of $430, 900 of the $3.50 900 the
House had sought for purchase OF
school sites and reducing by $780, 500
the $620,600 1t had provided for
equipment. Left intact were items
totaling more than $3,219, 600 in new
money for school construction.
4. Restoration of a Senate cut of