Evening star., 1950-07-09
$40 Million Is Voted
For 4Projects Here
By Senate Committee
By Harold B. ROGERS

More than $40 million to con-
tinue work on four major Federal
projects here-and to start new
Senate Office Building-was ap-
proved yesterday by the Senate
Appropriations Committee.
, The funds were included in the
omnibus bill which the committee
reported out yesterday. The bill
calls for expenditure of $34,688,-
$4,000 to run the entire Federal
Government for the next 12i
months.
The four projects are the new
General Accounting Office. the |
new Federal Court House, the
Public Health Center in Bethesda
and renovation of the White
House. No controversy arose on I
these four. /
Senator Ellender, Democrat, of |
Louisiana plans to resume his
one-man economy crusade against |
the new Senate Office Building. |
The committee authorized appro-
priation of $40 million to start
the project.
Deafeated in Committee.
Senator Ellenger succeeded last
year in delaying construction of
the building for which a site
already had been acquired and
cleared. But in the Senate Ap-
preparations Committee last week
he was reported to have lost his
fight to reduce the original size
of the building by about a half.
The committee asked in it's re-
port to the Senate that the Senate
Office Building Commission re-
view detailed plans of the struc-
ture with view of simplifying
the building to bring about saw
ings, and with the expressed de-
side of the committee to make the
new Office building more of a
working and utilitarian unit than
the present plans contemplate"
The appropriations committee
put into the omnibus bill SIS. .358,-
1874 for the new General Account
ing Office now going up near Ju-
dietary Square; $6 million for the
new Federal Court House on Con-
stitution avenue; $3.4 million for
continuing renovation of the White
House; and $15,125, 900 for the
hospital and research center of
the Public Health Service near
Bethesda.
st. Elizabeths Hospital was
granted an increase of 1000 for
salaries and expenses, bringing it's
total appropriation up to $4,011,-
900.
Funds For Prosecutors.
Some additional Assistant Dis
trict Attorneys and United States
Marshals here would be- provided
under funds approved in the JUS
tice Department appropriation.
The number of the new officials
was not specified in either the bill
or the Appropriations Committee
report.
The United States Court of
Claims was granted an additional
sum of $4,000 in addition to the
House-approyed funds for repairs
to the rear of the court building.
Stricken by the Senate Com
mittee were House approved
funds for a radio laboratory
building for the Bureau of Stand
ards.
Approved by the Senate unit
were an appropriation of $134,0O0
for the proposed guided missiles
laboratory and contract authority
of $1,766,000.
The Senate committee also ap-
proved the House figures on sew
eral other agencies in Washing
ton, including Freedmen's Hos
pital, Howard University, the Ma
tional Airport and the National
Arboretum.
The Senate committee refused
to restore to the appropriation
bill an item of $904,100 stricken
by the House for extension of the
George Washington Memorial
Parkway in Maryland along the
Potomac. Park Service officials
had asked the Senate committee
for the money to start acquisition
of property from Cabin John to
, Great Falls.
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