Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-06-16
Senators Back
S12Mi|Iion u. ).
Sum for District
Committee Restores
Most Budget Cuts
Made by House
Ry Don s Warren


The Senate Appropriations
Committee today sent to the SEN
ate a liberalized District supply
bill for the year beginning July
l that would restore the Federal
payment to the full authorized
$12 million and restore most of
spending items chopped out by the
House.
The bill calls for an outlay
of $135,117,089.
This is $4,062 ,089 above the
House figure.
The House reduced the Federal
payment $2.4 million, or 20 per
cent.
Subcommittee Report Approved.
Action by the full committee to-
day was in approval of the report
of the District subcommittee
headed by Senator Hill, Democrat,
of Alabama. While the Senate
committee restored all but SIS
million of the spending cuts or
|dered by the House, the 1853 out
lays still would be far less than
1852 costs.
The Senate bill figures are $9.5
million below this years bill, in
GLIDING costs carried in the third
supplemental bill. It is STA mil
lion under the revised District
budget estimates for next year.
As to percentage, the Senate bill
is Sc per cent below the 1852 ap-
preparations. 1903 per cent below
the 1853 estimates and 81 per
cent above the House total.
Highlights of Measure.
In addition to restoration OF
the $12 million Federal share as
authorized in the 1947 District
Revenue Act, the bill also:
l. Includes 500, 1000 for the draft
ing of plans for a new Industrial
Home School for colored girls at
the Children's Center at Laurel,
Md. This would include replace
ment for the old and much de-
nounced National Training School
for Girls here.
2. Recommends an additional
$475.324 for the public schools.
This would permit the filling of
about 80 teaching positions in the
colored schools, in a move to re-
duce the heavy teacher pupil
ratio there.
/ 8. Restores $2.7 million needed
by the District to pay Within
grade pay stepups for city gov
ernment workers, which under the
law are mandatory. Inspired by
its Federal economy blocs, the
House denied these funds with
the thought that the District
would be forced to make addi-
tional payroll savings.
/ District officials, bewildered and
!. shocked by that House action, pro-
tested they already had forced all
possible payroll savings, by refusal
to fill job vacancies. They contend
any such further forced savings
could be accomplished only by
, firing workers and damaging or
wrecking services.
I Capital Outlay Funds.
!, 4. Restores 1858 900 to the cap
itar outlay funds, including $685.
!. 900 for street and bridge projects.
much of this needed to carry on
development of the East Capitol
, street bridge and connecting high
ways vital to use of the Washing
ton Baltimore parkway and the
projected Washington Annapolis
freeway.
j 5. The grant of an additional
$346,000 to the welfare budget,
mostly for protective institutions
and agency services.
| s. LiberalizeS the Health De-
partment budget by the addition
of $240,000 to the fund for gen.
eral administration. Sums were
added also to the budgets for
HGallinger Municipal Hospital.
$4,000; Glenn Dale tuberculosis
Sanitarium. $71.0O0: and an adj
ditional $76.875 over the House
total of 100000 for medical char.
tiles, to cover the cost of the care
OF INDECENT patients at private
non profit hospitals.